آغاز

See also: آغار‎ and أعار‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ‎ (âğâz).

Noun

آغاز • (agaz, ağaz)

start, beginning
Synonyms: باشلانغج‎ (başlangıc), باشلامه‎ (başlama), ابتدا‎ (ibtidaʼ, iptidaʼ), مقدمه‎ (mukaddime, mukaddeme), افتتاح‎ (iftitah)

Persian

Etymology

From Sogdian [script needed] (ʾʾγʾz /āγāz/).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈɣɑːz/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈɣɑːz/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /ɒːˈɢɒːz/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /ɔˈɣɔz/

Noun

Iranian Persian	آغاز
Dari	آغاز
Tajik	оғоз (oġoz)

آغاز • (âğâz) (plural آغاز‌ها‎ (âğâz-hâ))

beginning, start
Synonyms: شروع‎ (šoru'), ابتدا‎ (ebtedâ)

Antonyms: انتها‎ (entehâ), پایان‎ (pâyân)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 2319:
  ‏شکر دانستیم آغاز ترا / انبیا گفتند آن راز ترا‎
  šokr dâneštim âğâz-e to-râ / anbiyâ goftand ân râz-e to-râ
  Thanks [to God], we have come to know thy beginning: the prophets have told that secret of thine.
- 1599, Bahman Kaikobad, قصه سنجان [Qissa-i Sanjan]:
  ‏آغاز داستان بهدینان فارس که از ولایت ایران به هندوستان آمده‌اند‎
  âğâz-e dâstân-e behdinân-e fârs ke az velâyat-e irân be hendustân âmade-and
  The beginning of the story of the People of Good Faith [Zoroastrians] of Fars, who came to Hindustan from the land of Iran

Derived terms

آغاز شدن‎ (âğâz šodan)
آغاز کردن‎ (âğâz kardan)

Descendants

→ Bengali: আগাজ (agaz)
→ Hindustani: āġāz
Hindi: आग़ाज़

Urdu: آغاز‎
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਆਗਾਜ਼ (āgāz)

Shahmukhi script: آغاز‎ (āġāz)
→ Ottoman Turkish: آغاز‎ (agaz, ağaz)

References

Henning, W. B. (1939), “Sogdian Loan-Words in New Persian”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies‎, volume 10, issue 1, page 98

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