gaza

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.za/

gaza

1. third-person singular past historic of gazer

gaza

1. inflection of gazare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Ancient Greek γάζα (gáza).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaz.za/, [ˈɡäz̪d̪͡z̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡad.d͡za/, [ˈɡäd̪ː͡z̪ä]

gaza f (genitive gazae); first declension

1. treasury
2. treasure, riches
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.118–119:

     Adpārent rārī nantēs in gurgite vastō,
     arma virum, tabulaeque, et Trōia gāza per undās.

     [These things] could be seen, scattered – [men] swimming in the vast abyss, men’s weaponry, and also planks [from the ships], and Trojan treasure – throughout the waves.
     (The Trojan fleet incurs devastating losses during the storm at sea. Here, “arma” would mean shields, helmets, and miscellaneous equipment capable of floating; “virum” is a syncopated form of the genitive plural, “virorum.”)

3. wealth

First-declension noun.

• “gaza”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gaza in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.za/

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• Rhymes: -aza
• Syllabification: ga‧za
• Homophone: Gaza

gaza f (related adjective gazowy)

1. gauze (thin fabric with open weave)
2. (medicine) gauze (cotton fabric used as surgical dressing)

• gaza in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gaza in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French gazer.

a gaza (third-person singular present gazează, past participle gazat) 1st conj.

1. to gas

• cameră de gazare
• gazare
• gazat

• gaz

• IPA^(key): /ɡǎːza/
• Hyphenation: ga‧za

gáza f (Cyrillic spelling га́за)

1. gauze

Compare Italian gassa (“stopper knot”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈɡaθa/ [ˈɡa.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈɡasa/ [ˈɡa.sa]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -aθa
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ga‧za
• Homophones: Gaza, (Latin America) gasa

gaza f (plural gazas)

1. eye splice

• “gaza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

gaza

1. decorative design