گز
Chagatai
Etymology
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Ottoman Turkish
Descendants
- Turkish: kez
Alternative forms
- گیز (giz)
Descendants
- Turkish: giz
References
- Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 250 Nr. 329
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “گز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024a
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “گز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3938–3939
Persian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡæz/
Etymology 1
From Middle Persian [script needed] (gc /gaz/, “tamarisk”). Compare Old Armenian գազ (gaz, “milk-vetch”), an Iranian borrowing.
Noun
گز • (gaz)
- tamarisk, Tamarix spp.
- tamarisk gum
- milk-vetch, Astragalus spp.
- gum tragacanth, tragacanth
- a kind of confectionary which is a speciality of Isfahan and is similar to nougat, gaz – made from tragacanth and other gums of various manna trees
- manna ash, Fraxinus ornus
Descendants
Etymology 2
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Derived terms
- گز کردن (gaz kardan, “to measure in cubits”)
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