مازو

Ottoman Turkish

مازو

Alternative forms

• مازی (mazı)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian مازو (mâzu, “gall nut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑˈzu/, /mɑˈzɯ/

Noun

مازو • (mazu or mazı)

1. (botany) gall, nutgall, oak apple, a blister or growth found on the surface of plants, especially the Aleppo gall

   Synonym: عفص (ʼafs)

2. Aleppo oak, any small oak native to Greece and Asia Minor of the species Quercus infectoria, best known for its galls

   Synonym: مازو میشه‌سی (mazı meşesi)

3. arbor vitae, thuja, any of the evergreen, coniferous trees and shrubs of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis

Derived terms

• مازو آغاجی (mazı ağacı, “black oak”)
• مازو بوجكی (mazı böceği, “gall wasp”)
• مازو میشه‌سی (mazı meşesi, “Aleppo oak”)
• مازی طوزی (mazı tozu, “tannic acid, tannin”)

Descendants

• Turkish: mazı
• → Armenian: մազի (mazi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mazı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3092
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “مازو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 415a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مازو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1092
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Galla”, 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 638
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مازو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4237
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mazı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مازو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1656

Persian

Alternative forms

• مازوج (mâzuj), ماز (mâz), ماجو (mâju)

Etymology

Akin to Central Kurdish مازوو (mazû), Northern Kurdish mazî, Southern Kurdish مازێ (mazê), and Gurani مازوو (mâzû), and Chinese 沒食子 / 没食子 (mòshízǐ), a Middle Iranian borrowing, all meaning the oak apple.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ˈzuː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.zúː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mɑː.zúː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.zúː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.zú]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mɒː.zúː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mɔ.zú]

Readings
Classical reading?	māzū
Dari reading?	māzū
Iranian reading?	mâzu
Tajik reading?	mozu

Noun

مازو • (mâzu)

1. gall nut, oak apple, oak gall, gall apple, Aleppo gall
2. (usually دار مازو (dâr mâzu)) gall oak, Aleppo oak (Quercus infectoria)

Derived terms

• مازریون (mâzaryun, “mezereon”)

Descendants

• → Hindi: माजूफल (mājūphal)
• → Urdu: ماجو (mājū), مازو (māzū), ماجوپهل (mājūphal)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مازو (mazu, mazı), مازی (mazı)
  • Turkish: mazı
  • → Armenian: մազի (mazi)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “مازو”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1140