لوزینه

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (lwcynk' /⁠lōzēnag⁠/, “almond sweetmeat, marzipan”), which according to Eilers developed with a n → l sound change from earlier *nōčēnak (“pastry with pine nuts (which taste similar to almonds)”), a derivative of Old Persian 𐎴𐎢𐎨𐎡𐎴 (n-u-c-i-n /⁠naucaina⁠/, “of pine”, adjective), from *nauciš.

Akin to Arabic لَوْزِينَج (lawzīnaj), Khwarezmian [script needed] (lwzynyk), Classical Syriac ܠܘܙܐ (lūzā), Arabic لَوْز (lawz).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [law.ziː.na]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läw.ziː.nä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läw.ziː.nä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [läw.ziː.nä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [läw.zi.nä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [low.ziː.ne]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [läw.zi.nä]

Readings
Classical reading?	lawzīna
Dari reading?	lawzīna
Iranian reading?	lowzine
Tajik reading?	lavzina

Noun

لوزینه • (lowzine)

1. a confection of almonds
2. any food in which almonds form a part

Related terms

• لوز (lowz)

Descendants

• → Lishana Deni: לוזינא (lōzīna)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لوزینه (levzine), նավզինէ (navzine)
  • Turkish: nevzine
  • → Armenian: նէվզինէ (nēvzinē)

References

• Eilers, Wilhelm (1974) Die vergleichend-semasiologische Methode in der Orientalistik (Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 1973, Nr. 10)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, page 58, footnote 82
• Hassandoust, Mohammad (2014/2015) Bahman Sarkarati, editor, Farhang-e riše-šenâxti-ye zabân-e Farsi [An Etymological Dictionary of the Persian Language] (in Persian), volume IV: K-Y, Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature, →ISBN , page 2541
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “lawzēnag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 53
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لوزینج”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1131
• Tietze, Andreas (1967) “Persian Loanwords in Anatolian Turkish”, in Oriens, volume 20, in collaboration with Gilbert Lazard, →DOI, § 82, pages 148-149

Further reading

• Lagarde, Paul de (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 1054, pages 114–115, connects the Semitic words mentioned here with Old Armenian նուշ (nuš)
• Thompson, Reginald Campbell (1941) Cyril John Gadd, editor, A Dictionary of Assyrian Botany‎^[2], London: The British Academy, published 1949, page 254, connects the Semitic words mentioned here with Akkadian 𒉡𒍑𒄷 (/⁠nušḫu⁠/), on which see Old Armenian նուշ (nuš)