عیواض

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِيوَاض (ʕīwāḍ), alteration of عِوَض (ʕiwaḍ, “substitute”). Doublet of عوض (ʼivâz, “substitute, replacement”).

Noun

عیواض • (ʼayvaz) (definite accusative عیواضی (ʼayvazı), plural عیواضلر (ʼayvazlar))

1. cook-servant, one who is hired to carry food from the kitchen in large mansions and palaces

Derived terms

• حاجی عیواض (hacı ʼayvaz, “Hacivat, a character of the Turkish shadow play”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ayvaz

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “عیواض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 377
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ayvaz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 396
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عیواض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 866
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ayvaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük