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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عِيوَاض (ʕīwāḍ), alteration of عِوَض (ʕiwaḍ, “substitute”). Doublet of عوض (ʼivâz, “substitute, replacement”).
Noun
عیواض • (ʼayvaz) (definite accusative عیواضی (ʼayvazı), plural عیواضلر (ʼayvazlar))
- cook-servant, one who is hired to carry food from the kitchen in large mansions and palaces
Derived terms
- حاجی عیواض (hacı ʼayvaz, “Hacivat, a character of the Turkish shadow play”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “عیواض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 377
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ayvaz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 396
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عیواض”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 866
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ayvaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük