düz

See also: duz and duž

Azerbaijani
Other scripts
Cyrillic дүз
Perso-Arabic دۆز‎

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tüŕ (“even, level”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [dyz]
  • Audio(file)

Adjective

düz (comparative daha düz, superlative ən düz, intensive dümdüz)

  1. flat, even
  2. straight
    Düz gedirsən, sonra dönürsən sağa ― You go straight, then you turn to the right.
    Antonym: əyri (bent)
  3. correct, right
    Synonyms: düzgün, doğru
    Antonyms: yanlış, səhv
  4. honest
    Sözün düzü, özüm də bilmirəm
    To tell you the truth (lit. 'The honest of the word'), I don't know myself
    Synonym: həqqi
    Antonym: yalan

Derived terms

Adverb

düz

  1. flatly, evenly
  2. straight
  3. correctly, rightly
  4. honestly

Descendants
  • → Armenian: դո̈ւզ (düz) (Karabakh dialect)
  • → Lezgi: дуьз (düz)
  • → Tat: düz

Further reading
  • “düz” in Obastan.com.

Tat

Etymology

From Azerbaijani düz.[1]

Adjective

düz[2]

  1. flat, even
  2. straight
  3. correct, right
  4. honest

Adverb

düz[1]

  1. straight

Derived terms
  • düz birən
  • düz səxtən

References
  1. Miller, Vsevolod (1905), “дӱз”, in Tatskije etjudy. Č. I. Teksty i tatsko-russkij slovarʹ [Tat Studies. Part I. Texts and a Tat–Russian Dictionary] (Trudy po vostokovedeniju; 24), Moscow: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 47b
  2. Soltanov, A. K.; Soltanov, M. C. (2013), “düz”, in Tati–türki, türki–tati lüğət, Baku: Qanun, page 66a

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دوز‎ (düz), from Proto-Turkic *tüŕ (“even, level”).[1]

Adjective

düz

  1. flat, smooth, even
  2. straight
  3. plain

Derived terms

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “či̯uŕi”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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