اوروج

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Vulgarized form of Persian روزه (ruze, “fasting”); compare other Turkic borrowings, like Azerbaijani oruc, Kazakh ораза (oraza), Kyrgyz орозо (orozo), Tatar ураза (uraza) and Uzbek roʻza.

Noun

اوروج • (oruc)

  1. (in general) fasting, abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food
    Synonym: صوم (savm)
  2. (specifically) sawm, saum, the ritual practice of fasting and the third of the five pillars of Islam
    Synonym: صوم (savm)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: oruç

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