Jaz

• Jas, Jazz

Jaz

1. A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.
   • 2024, Gideon Haigh, My Brother Jaz, Melbourne University Publishing, published 2024, →ISBN, page Back Cover:

     In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped. Dark, raw and revealing, My Brother Jaz is how it feels to lose someone, and yourself, even as the rest of the world turns, and you struggle to keep up.

2. A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine or any of its variant spellings.
3. A diminutive of the male given name James.
4. A diminutive of the female given name Janet or Janette.
   • 1995, Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire, Heinemann, published 1996, →ISBN, page 5:

     I know, from picking up the post from the hall in the mornings, that Jaz has a mother in Northumbria who thinks her daughter's name is Janette. That jaunty z is but a wedge of lemon stuck into a bottle of beer.

• (diminutive of James): Jamie, Jaime, Jem, Jemmy

From Polish jaz (“weir”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: Jaz

Jaz m pers

1. a male surname

Jaz f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• “Jaz”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce , 2022