ხიზანი

Laz

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)

1. wicked, evil, poor, bad

   Synonyms: ხაი (xai), პატი (p̌aťi)

2. 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^[1] (in Turkish)
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ხიზანი”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi