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Egyptian Arabic
Noun
مزد • (mizd, mazd) m
- Alternative form of مز (mizz, mazz)
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (myzd /mizd/), from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *miždám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *miždʰám, from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰós.[1] Cognate with Talysh مژد (məžd), Ossetian мызд (myzd), Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda), and further with Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós), German Miete.
Noun
مزد • (mozd)
- wage, pay
c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume II, verse 576:چیست مزد کار من دیدار یار
گر چه خود بو بکر بخشد چل هزار- čīst muzd-i kār-i man dīdār-i yār
gar či xwad Bū Bakr baxšad čil hazār - What are the wages for my work? The sight of the Friend (God),
even though Abú Bakr give me forty thousand (dirhems).
- reward
- hire
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