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Middle Persian
Etymology
Paul Horn connects with the Iranian source of Old Armenianյոյզ(yoyz, “seeking, searching; trouble, agitation”), յուզեմ(yuzem, “to seek, to search; to trouble, to agitate”), interpreting the original meaning of the animal's name as “the seeker”. Compare the simple verb یوختن(yuxtan)/یوزیدن(yuzidan, “to look for, to search for, to seek out”). It should be noted that formerly the cheetah was tamed by aristocrats and used to hunt antelopes in much the same way as is still done with members of the greyhound group of dogs; compare the names hunting leopard, hunting cat, Jagdleopard.
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “yōz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 97
Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 199
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “յովազ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 407a
Horn, Paul (1893) “yōz”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 1129, pages 252–253
Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 113