زوج

From Aramaic זוגא (zawgā, “yoke, pair”), from Ancient Greek ζεῦγος (zeûgos, “yoke”) which was used in Greek for the yoke of marriage – now it forms a root ز و ج (z-w-j).

• IPA^(key): /zawd͡ʒ/

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زَوْج • (zawj) m (dual زَوْجَان (zawjān), plural أَزْوَاج (ʔazwāj))

1. one of a pair
2. spouse, mate, partner
   1. husband

      Synonym: بَعْل (baʕl)

      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 58:1:

        قَدْ سَمِعَ ٱللَّٰهُ قَوْلَ ٱلَّتِي تُجَادِلُكَ فِي زَوْجِهَا وَتَشْتَكِي إِلَى ٱللَّٰهِ وَٱللَّٰهُ يَسْمَعُ تَحَاوُرَكُمَا إِنَّ ٱللَّٰهَ سَمِيعٌ بَصِيرٌ

        qad samiʕa llāhu qawla llatī tujādiluka fī zawjihā wataštakī ʔilā llāhi wal-lāhu yasmaʕu taḥāwurakumā ʔinna llāha samīʕun baṣīrun

        God has certainly heard the speech of her who pleads with you about her husband and complains to God. God hears the conversation between the two of you.

   2. (feminine) wife
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 20:117:

        فَقُلْنَا يَا آدَمُ إِنَّ هَٰذَا عَدُوٌّ لَّكَ وَلِزَوْجِكَ فَلَا يُخْرِجَنَّكُمَا مِنَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ فَتَشْقَىٰ

        faqulnā yā ʔādamu ʔinna hāḏā ʕaduwwun laka walizawjika falā yuḵrijannakumā mina l-jannati fatašqā

        We said, “O Adam! This is indeed an enemy of yours and your mate’s. So do not let him expel you from paradise, or you will be miserable.”

      Synonyms: زَوْجَة (zawja), اِمْرَأَة (imraʔa), قَرِينَة (qarīna)

3. (often in the dual) a pair or couple

   هُمَا زَوْجَانِ

   humā zawjāni

   They two are a pair or couple.

4. (now rare) kind, type
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 56:4-10:

     إِذَا رُجَّتِ الْأَرْضُ رَجًّا وَبُسَّتِ الْجِبَالُ بَسًّا فَكَانَتْ هَبَاءً مُّنْبَثًّا وَكُنتُمْ أَزْوَاجًا ثَلَاثَةً فَأَصْحَابُ الْمَيْمَنَةِ مَا أَصْحَابُ الْمَيْمَنَةِ وَأَصْحَابُ الْمَشْأَمَةِ مَا أَصْحَابُ الْمَشْأَمَةِ وَالسَّابِقُونَ السَّابِقُونَ

     When the earth is shaken with convulsion / And the mountains are crushed, crumbling / And become dust dispersing / And ye become of three kinds: Then the companions of the right – what are the companions of the right? And the companions of the left – what are the companions of the left? And the forerunners, the forerunners!

• زَوْجَة (zawja, “wife”)
• زَوْجِيّ (zawjiyy)

• Moroccan Arabic: جوج (jūj), زوج (zūj)
• Tunisian Arabic: زوز (zūz)
• Maltese: żewġ
• → Azerbaijani: zövc
• → Bengali: জওজ (zôuj)
• → Ottoman Turkish: زوج (zevc)
  • → Turkish: zevç
• → Persian: زوج (zowj)
• → Uzbek: zavj

Denominal verb derived from زَوْج (zawj, “pair”).

• IPA^(key): /zaw.wa.d͡ʒa/

زَوَّجَ • (zawwaja) II (non-past يُزَوِّجُ (yuzawwiju), verbal noun تَزْوِيج (tazwīj))

1. (ditransitive) to marry off, to give in marriage
2. to pair, to couple, to join in pairs
3. to double, to geminate

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 106
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 303
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 154–155
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “زوج”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “زوج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate

From Arabic زَوْج (zawj).

• IPA^(key): /zoːd͡ʒ/, ,

زوج • (zōj) m (plural أزواج (ʔazwāj))

1. husband

   Synonym: (rare) جوز (jōz)

From Arabic زَوَّجَ (zawwaja).

• IPA^(key): /zaw.wad͡ʒ/, ,

زَوَّج • (zawwaj) II (non-past يِزَوِّج (yizawwij))

1. (ditransitive) to marry off, to give in marriage

   Synonym: (rare) جَوَّز (jawwaz)

Borrowed from Arabic زَوْج (zawj, “one of a pair”).

زوج • (zevc) (plural ازواج (ezvac))

1. (originally) mate, one of a pair, a single thing of a couple

   Synonyms: اش (eş), چفت (çift)

2. spouse, a person in a marriage or marital relationship

   Synonyms: اش (eş), عرس (ʼırs)

3. pair, couple, a set of two similar things taken together

   Synonym: چفت (çift)

4. couple, two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship

   Synonym: چفت (çift)

5. (mathematics) even number, an integer that is divisible by two

• Turkish: zevç

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zevc”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5461
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “zevc”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1423
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زوج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 650
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Par”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1239
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زوج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2481
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zevç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زوج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1018

Borrowed from Arabic زَوْج (zawj). Doublet of یوغ (joğ, juğ, “yoke”), also related to جُفت (joft).

زُوج • (zowj)

1. couple, pair

   Synonym: جُفت (joft)

2. spouse, mate, partner

   Synonym: هَمسَر (hamsar)

3. even number

   Antonym: فَرد (fard)

4. (of days of the week) of which the Persian-language name begins with an even number

   Antonym: فَرد (fard)

   Hyponyms: شَنبه (šanbe, “Saturday”), دوشَنبه (došanbe, “Monday”), چَهارشَنبه (čahâršambe, “Wednesday”)

From Arabic زَوَّجَ (zawwaja).

• IPA^(key): /zaw.waʒ/,

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زوّج • (zawwaj) II (present بزوّج (bizawwej))

1. (transitive) to marry

   Synonym: أهّل (ʔahhal)

Learned borrowing from Arabic زَوْج (zawj).

• IPA^(key): /zoːʒ/,

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زوج • (zōj) m (plural أزواج (ʔazwāj), feminine زوجة (zōje))

1. couple
2. husband

   Synonym: جوز (jōz)