جاز

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaː.za/

جَازَ • (jāza) I (non-past يَجُوزُ (yajūzu), verbal noun جَوْز (jawz) or جَوَاز (jawāz) or جُؤُوز (juʔūz) or مَجَاز (majāz))

1. (transitive) to pass, pass by
2. to travel over, through or on
3. to traverse, to cross
4. to disappear
5. to be passable, allowable, a matter of indifference

   هَلْ يَجُوزُ أَنْ يَصِيرَ ٱلدِّينُ تِجَارَةً ؟

   hal yajūzu ʔan yaṣīra d-dīnu tijāratan ?

   Is it permissible for religion to become a business?

6. to be possible, happen

جَازَ • (jāza) I (non-past يَجُوزُ (yajūzu), verbal noun جَوَاز (jawāz))

1. to irrigate

From Baluchi جاز, from Persian جهاز (jahāz), ultimately from Arabic جَهاز (jahāz).

جاز (jâza)

1. ship

From Arabic جَازَ (jāza).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaːz/, /ʒaːz/

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جاز • (gāz, jāz) I (non-past يجوز (ygūz, yjūz))

1. Alternative form of داز (dāz)

Borrowed from English jazz.

جاز • (jâz)

1. jazz (musical genre)
   • 1962, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, غرب‌زدگی [Occidentosis: A Plague from the West]:

     مصنوعاتی که موادّ خام‌شان – همان‌ها که برشمردم – از همین سوی عالم رفته. یعنی از ممالک در حال رشد! نفت از سواحل خلیج، کنف و ادویه از هند، جاز از افریقا، ابریشم و تریاک از چین، مردم‌شناسی از جزایر اقیانوسیه جامعه‌شناسی از افریقا.

     masnu'âti ke mavâdd-e xâm-ešân - hamân-hâ ke baršomordam - az hamin su-ye âlam rafte. ya'ni az mamâlek-e dar hâl-e rošd! naft az savâhel-e xalij, kanaf o adviye az hend, jâz az afriqâ, abrišam o teryâk az čin, mardom-šenâsi az jazâyer-e oqyânusiye, jâme'e-šenâsi az afriqâ.

     The manufactured goods whose raw materials - the very ones that I have enumerated - have come from this very part of the world. That is to say, from the developing countries! Petroleum from the Gulf coast, hemp and spices from India, jazz from Africa, silk and opium from China, anthropology from the islands of Oceania, sociology from Africa.