قاز

See also: فأر, فاز, and قار

Central Kurdish

Etymology

A Turkic borrowing. Compare Proto-Turkic *kāŕ and see it for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qaːz/

Noun

Northern Kurdish	qaz
Southern Kurdish	قاز (qaz)
Laki	قاز (qaz)

قاز (qaz)

1. goose

Derived terms

• قازەوان (qazewan)

References

• îbrahîmpûr, muḧemedteqî (2008) “قاز”, in ferhengî kurdî-înglîzî, Tehran: suha, page 766
• Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “qaz”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 113

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kāŕ (“goose”); cognate with Azerbaijani qaz, Bashkir ҡаҙ (qaź), Karakhanid قازْ (qāz), Kazakh қаз (qaz), Kyrgyz каз (kaz), Turkmen gāz, Tuvan кас (kas) and Yakut хаас (qaas).

Noun

قاز • (kaz)

1. goose (Anser anser)

   Synonyms: اوز (ivezz), بط (bat)

2. (figuratively) stupid person

Derived terms

• قاز آیاغی (kaz ayağı, “goosefoot”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kaz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2504
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 926
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Anser”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 66
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قاز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3581
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1415

Persian

Noun

قاز • (qâz)

1. Alternative form of غاز (ğâz)