مزه

Borrowed from Persian مزه‎ (maze).

مزه • (meze)

1. pleasant taste, flavour, smack or relish

   Synonyms: چاشنی‎ (çeşni), ذوق‎ (zevk), طات‎ (tat), لذت‎ (lezzet), نمك‎ (nemek)

2. any good-flavoured thing eaten to increase the appetite
3. (figuratively) pleasantry, jocose saying or remark

• Turkish: meze
• → Arabic: مَزَّة‎ (mazza)
• → Armenian: մեզե (meze), մա̈զա̈ (mäzä)
• → Albanian: meze
• → Aromanian: mize
• → Bulgarian: мезе́ (mezé)
• → Greek: μεζές (mezés)
  • → English: meze
• → Macedonian: мезе (meze)
• → Romanian: meze
• → Serbo-Croatian: mèze / мѐзе

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “meze1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3191
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مزه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1156
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gustus”, 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, Vienna, column 677
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مزه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4602
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “meze”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مزه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1826

From Middle Persian [script needed] (myck', m(y)ck' /mizag/, “taste”).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /maz(z)a/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /maz(z)a/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /mæz(z)e/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /maz(z)a/

مزه • (maze) (plural مزه‌ها‎ (maze-hâ))

1. taste, flavour, smack, relish

   ‏.مزه‌ی این سیب ترش است‎

   maze-ye in sib torš ast.

   This apple tastes sour.

   (literally, “The flavor of this apple is sour”)

2. joy, pleasure
3. a snack; a morsel taken after drinking liquor.

• طعم‎ (ta'm)
• خوا‎ (xovâ)
• چشیدن‎ (čašidan)

• خوش‌مزه‎ (xoš-maze)
• بدمزه‎ (bad-maze)
• مزه‌دار‎ (maze-dâr)
• بی‌مزه‎ (bê-maze)
• بامزه‎ (bâ-maze)
• مزه دادن‎ (maze dâdan)
• مزه کردن‎ (maze kardan)
• مزه دهن‎ (maze-ye dahan)

• → Assamese: মজা (moza)
• → Bengali: মজা (môza)
• → Azerbaijani: məzə
• → Gujarati: મજા (majā)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: मज़ा (mazā)
  • Urdu: مزہ‎ (maza)
• → Kazakh: маза (maza)
• → Marathi: मजा (majā)
• → Middle Armenian: մազայ (mazay)
• → Middle Georgian: მაზა (maza)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مزه‎ (meze)
  • Turkish: meze
  • → Arabic: مَزَّة‎ (mazza)
  • → Albanian: meze
  • → Aromanian: mize
  • → Bulgarian: мезе́ (mezé)
  • → Greek: μεζές (mezés)
    • → English: meze
  • → Macedonian: мезе (meze)
  • → Romanian: meze
  • → Serbo-Croatian: mèze / мѐзе
• → Punjabi: ਮਜਾ (majā)

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