مغز

Borrowed from Persian مغز (mağz).

مغز • (mağz)

1. brain, the organ which controls the central nervous system

   Synonyms: بینی (beyni), دماغ (demağ), مخ (muh)

2. kernel, marrow, pith, core, essence of a thing

   Synonyms: اوز (öz), لب (lubb), مخ (muh)

3. (by extension) mind, sense, understanding, intellect

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mağz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3010
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مغز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1199
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cerebrum”, 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 170
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مغز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4795
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مغز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1924

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mzg /⁠mazg⁠/, “brain, marrow”), from Proto-Iranian *mazgáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mazgʰás, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos. Cognate of English marrow.

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مغز • (mağz) (plural مغزها (mağz-hâ))

1. brain
2. marrow

• → Gujarati: મગજ (magaj)