توز

Chagatai

Etymology

From Common Turkic *tōz.

Noun

توز (tuz) (uncountable)

1. salt

Khalaj

Noun

توُز (tûz, tûuz) (definite accusative توُزوُ, plural توُزلار)

1. Arabic spelling of tûz, tûuz (“salt”)

Declension

Declension of توز

	singular	plural
nominative	توز	توزلار
genitive	توزؽݧ	توزلارؽݧ
dative	توزقا	توزلارقا
definite accusative	توزؽ	توزلارؽ
locative	توزچا	توزلارچا
ablative	توزدا	توزلاردا
instrumental	توزلا	توزلارلا
equative	توزوارا	توزلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

توز

Etymology 1

Inherited from Common Turkic *tōz; cognate with Old Turkic 𐱃𐰆𐰔 (toz), Azerbaijani toz, Chagatai توز (tuz), Kazakh тоз (toz), Kyrgyz тоз (toz), Turkmen toz and Uyghur توز (toz).

Noun

توز • (toz)

1. dust, powder, fine particles of matter found in the air

   Synonyms: تراب (türâb), خاك (hak), غبار (gubar)

Derived terms

• آیاق توزی (ayak tozu, “the dust on one's feet”)
• بچقی توزی (bıçkı tozu, “sawdust”)
• توز قوپارمق (toz koparmak, “to raise dust”)
• توز قوپمق (toz kopmak, “to rise (of dust)”)
• توزلامق (tozlamak, “to cover with dust”)
• توزلق (tozluk, “gaiter”)
• توزلو (tozlu, “dusty”)
• دمیر توزی (demir tozu, “iron filings”)
• دومان توزی (duman tozu, “impalpable powder”)
• صمان توزی (saman tozu, “cut straw”)

Related terms

• توزاق (tozak, “dust storm”)
• توزان (tozan, “dusty”)

Descendants

• Gagauz: tooz
• Turkish: toz
• → Armenian: թոզ (tʻoz)
• → Cypriot Greek: ττοζιν (ttozin)
  • → Cypriot Arabic: ttozz
• → Romanian: tos

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “toz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4883
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “توز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 170a
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “توز”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 413
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulvis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1407
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “توز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1461
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “toz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “توز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 608

Etymology 2

Noun

توز • (tuz)

1. Alternative spelling of طوز (tuz, “salt”)

Further reading

• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “توز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 170a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], Constantinople: Mihran, page 413
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “توز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 1461

Uyghur

Etymology

From Persian طاووس (tâvus), from Arabic طَاوُوس (ṭāwūs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toz/

Noun

توز • (toz) (plural توزلار (tozlar))

1. peacock

Further reading

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN