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Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خیزان (hızan), خزان (hızan, “poor, miserable”) (dialectal Turkish hızan), which is related to the synonymous Armenian խզան (xzan), Northern Kurdish xizan.
Adjective
ხიზანი • (xizani) (Latin spelling xizani) (Vitse–Arkabi)
- wicked, evil, poor, bad
- Synonyms: ხაი (xai), პატი (p̌aťi)
- naughty, prankish, mischievous
- Synonyms: ჲანგაზი (yangazi), ხაშარი (xaşari)
Further reading
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 240, page 61
- Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “xizani”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı (in Turkish)
- Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ხიზანი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi