مزه

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See also: مزہ, مرة, مژه, and مزة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian مزه (maze).

Noun

مزه • (meze)

  1. pleasant taste, flavour, smack or relish
    Synonyms: چاشنی (çeşni), ذوق (zevk), طات (tat), لذت (lezzet), نمك (nemek)
  2. any good-flavoured thing eaten to increase the appetite
  3. (figuratively) pleasantry, jocose saying or remark

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Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian (myck', m(y)ck' /⁠mizag⁠/, “taste”), a derivative of Proto-Iranian *mak- (“to suck”), which is perhaps a semantic extension of Proto-Iranian *mak- (“to wet, moisten”) reinforced by sound-symbolism, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂k- (“to moisten”).[1] In this case, cognate with Proto-Slavic *močìti (“to wet”);[2] see there for more cognates. For a semantic parallel between "consuming" and "wettening", compare Lithuanian válgyti (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? maza, mazza
Dari reading? maza, mazza
Iranian reading? maza, mazze
Tajik reading? maza, mazza

Noun

Dari مزه
Iranian Persian
Tajik маза, мазза

مزه • (maze) (plural مزه‌ها (maze-hâ))[3][4]

  1. taste, flavour, smack, relish
    .مزه‌ی این سیب ترش است
    maze-ye in sib torš ast.
    This apple tastes sour.
    (literally, “The flavor of this apple is sour”)
  2. joy, pleasure
  3. a snack; a morsel taken after drinking liquor.

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References

  1. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) “*²mak-, *³maik- : *mik-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 169; 171
  2. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) “*¹mak-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 168
  3. ^ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “مزه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  4. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “mizag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
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