گزاف

Persian

Alternative forms

• گزافه (gazâfe)
• گذاف (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡa.zɑːf]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡä.zɑːf]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡä.zɑːf]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡä.zɑːf]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡä.zɔːf]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʲæ.zɒːf]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡä.zɔf]

Readings
Classical reading?	gazāf
Dari reading?	gazāf
Iranian reading?	gazâf
Tajik reading?	gazof

Adjective

گَزاف • (gazâf) (comparative گَزاف‌تَر (gazâf-tar), superlative گَزاف‌تَرین (gazâf-tarin))

1. extravagant, excessive, exorbitant

Derived terms

• گزاف گفتن (gazâf goftan)

Descendants

• → Arabic: جِزاف (jizāf), جُزاف (juzāf)
  • ⇒ Algerian Arabic: بالزاف (bezzāf)
    • → Kabyle: bezzaf
  • ⇒ Moroccan Arabic: بالزاف (bizzāf), بزاف (bizzāf)
    • → Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴱⵣⵣⴰⴼ (bzzaf)
    • → French: bézef, bésef, besef, bezef (nonstandard)
    • → Italian: bizzeffe
• → Turkish: güzaf

Further reading

• Shapira, Dan D. Y. (2009) “Irano-Arabica: contamination and popular etymology. Notes on the Persian and Arabic lexicons (with references to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkic)”, in Христианский Восток – Новая Серия, volume 5 (XI), Moscow: Издательство Российской Академии Наук и Государственного Эрмитажа, page 157, derives from Aramaic [Term?] (*kəzābhā, “lie”), a cognate of Arabic كَذْبَة (kaḏba)