آز

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, a little”).

Determiner

آز • (az)

few, a little
insignificant, paltry, of little account
seldom

Antonyms

پك (pek)
چوق (çok)
دلم (delim)
كی (key)

Derived terms

آزاجق (azacık)
آزالمق (azalmak)
آزجه (azca)
آزلق (azlık)
آزمسامق (azımsamak)

Descendants

Turkish: az

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 77
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 15

Persian

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key):

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key):
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key):
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key):

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key):

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key):

Readings
Classical reading^?	āz
Dari reading^?	āz
Iranian reading^?	âz
Tajik reading^?	oz

Noun


Iranian Persian	آز
Dari	آز
Tajik	оз

آز • (âz)

greed, avidity, covetousness
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3484:
  لیک صیقل کرده‌‌اند آن سینه‌‌ها
  پاک از آز و حرص و بخل و کینه‌‌ها
  lêk sayqal karda-and ân sina-hâ
  pâk az âz u hirs u buxl u kina-hâ
  But they have burnished their breasts
  (and made them) pure from greed and cupidity and avarice and hatreds.

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آز”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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