گرز

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wlz /warz/, “mace”), from earlier [script needed] (wzl /wazr/), from Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬰𐬭𐬀‎ (vazra, “mace; main weapon of Mithra”), from Proto-Iranian *wájrah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáȷ́ras. Cognate with Sanskrit वज्र (vájra) and akin to Old Armenian վարզ (varz, “mace”).

گرز • (gorz) (plural گرزها‎ (gorz-hâ))

1. mace, club

• گرزه‎ (gorze)
• کوپال‎ (kupâl)

• → Armenian: գուրզ (gurz)
• → Ottoman Turkish: كرز‎
  • Turkish: gürz
• → Urdu: گرز‎
  • Chagatai: گرز‎
• → Kazakh: гүрзі (gürzı) → Kazakh: күрзі (kürzı)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “warz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “گرز+gurz”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Classical Persian گرز‎ (gurz), itself from Middle Persian [script needed] (wlz /warz/, “mace”), from earlier [script needed] (wzl /wazr/), from Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬰𐬭𐬀‎ (vazra, “mace; main weapon of Mithra”), from Proto-Iranian *wájrah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáȷ́ras. Cognate with Sanskrit वज्र (vájra, “hard; the mace of Indra; thunderbolt; diamond”), Erzya: узере (uźeŕe, “axe”) and Northern Sami: veahčir (“hammer”). Related to بزرگ‎ (“elder”) and its Persian source بزرگ‎ (“great, large”). In the Indo-Persian tradition, it became associated with lightning-bolts, thunder and storms. It became a metaphor for strength and force as well, especially in relation to the warrior and fighter.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡʊɾz/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /ɡʊɾz/
• Rhymes: -ʊɾz

گرز • (gurz) ?

1. club, mace
2. lightning bolt, thunderbolt
3. thunder, thunderstorm
4. strength, might, vigor
5. power, force
6. a weapon wielded by Faridun in the Shahnameh

• گُرْزبازی‎ (gurzbazī)
• گُرْزبَرْدار‎ (gurz-bárdār)
• گُرْزدار‎ (gurzdār)
• گُرْزِگاوْسَر/گاؤسَر‎ (gurz-e-gāvsár/gurz-e-gāosár)
• گُرْزگیر‎ (gurzgīr)