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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جِزْيَة (jizya, “jizya”).
Noun
جزیه • (cizye)
- (Islam) jizya, a per capita tax levied on a section of an Islamic state's non-Muslim citizens
- Synonym: خراج (harac)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cizye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 828
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “cizye”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 176
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جزیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 440
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tributum”, 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 1693
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جزیه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1613
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جزیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 660
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جِزْيَة (jizya), from Middle Persian 𐭢𐭦𐭩𐭲𐭪𐭩 (gzytky /gazīdag/), 𐭢𐭦𐭩𐭲 (gzyt /gazīd/, “poll tax”), or from Arabic ج ز ي (j z y); compare جَزَى (jazā, “to repay”). At least a semantic loan from Middle Persian. Compare the inherited گزیت (gazit).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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jizya
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Dari reading?
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jizya
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Iranian reading?
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jezye
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Tajik reading?
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jizya
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Noun
جزیه • (jezye) (plural جزیهها (jezye-hâ))
- jizya, tax paid by non-Muslims
- head tax
- customs tax
- land tax
- produce of the ground
Derived terms