خز

See also: جر, جز, حر, خر, چر, and جڑ

Arabic

Etymology 1

Directly from Middle Persian [script needed] (kač). Doublet of قَزّ (qazz), which was borrowed via Aramaic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xazz/

Noun

خَزّ • (ḵazz) m (plural خُزُوز (ḵuzūz))

  1. Alternative form of قَزّ (qazz, silkware)
    • a. 869, الْجَاحِظ [al-jāḥiẓ], “باب ما يُجلب من البلدان من طرائف السلع والأمتعة والجواري والأحجار وغير ذلك [What one imports from strange countries in items, commodities, she-slaves, stones and else.]”, in التَبَصُّر بِٱلتِّجَارَة [at-tabaṣṣur bi-t-tijāra]:
      ومن الأهواز ونواحيها: السُّكَّر والدِّيباج الخَز.
      From al-Ahwaz one gets sugar and silk-brocades.
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian خز (xaz).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xazz/

Noun

خَزّ • (ḵazz) m (plural خُزُوز (ḵuzūz))

  1. marten
  2. (obsolete) otter
Declension

Etymology 3

Probably from خ ص ص (ḵ-ṣ-ṣ) “to touch and thereby cut off”, senses seen more in خ ص ر (ḵ-ṣ-r), with Aramaic parallel in Classical Syriac ܐܶܬܚܰܙܰܙ (ʾetḥazzaz, to penetrate).

Verb

خَزَّ • (ḵazza) I, non-past يَخُزُّ‎ (yaḵuzzu)

  1. to poke, to sting, to pierce, to transfix
Conjugation

References

  • Asbaghi, Asya (2008) “Persian Loanwords”, in Versteegh, Kees, editor, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 582
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 41–42
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “خز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 481
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “خز”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 731

Gulf Arabic

Root
خ ز ز
1 term

Etymology

Compare Moroccan Arabic خزر (ḵzar), خنزر (ḵanzar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /χəzz/

Verb

خز • (ḵazz) I (non-past يخز (yḵizz))

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to stare, to gaze, to look at someone (or something) for a prolonged period of time.

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hz /⁠xaz⁠/, marten). See also Armenian ախազ (axaz).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? xaz
Dari reading? xaz
Iranian reading? xaz
Tajik reading? xaz

Noun

خز • (xaz) (plural خزها (xaz-hâ))

  1. (archaic) marten
  2. fur

Descendants

  • Arabic: خَزّ (ḵazz)

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xaz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
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