аз

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Bulgarian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Church Slavonic азъ (azŭ),[2] from Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ.[3][4][5]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [as]
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Pronoun

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аз (az) (personal)

  1. I; the first-person singular pronoun in the nominative case, used as the subject of a verb.
    Аз съм по-висо́ка от теб.
    Az sǎm po-visóka ot teb.
    I am taller than you.
    Аз не гово́ря англи́йски.
    Az ne govórja anglíjski.
    I don't speak English.
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References

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  1. ^ аз”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 20
  2. ^ Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “аз”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 5
  3. ^ Mate Kapović, Reconstruction of Balto-Slavic Personal Pronouns (2006)
  4. ^ Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “аз”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 5
  5. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*azъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 100
  • аз”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • аз”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Anagrams

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Chechen

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Etymology

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From *awaz, from a Turkic language, ultimately from Persian آواز. Compare Tatar аваз (awaz).

Noun

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аз (az?

  1. voice

Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic از
Cyrillic аз
Latin az

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (few, little). Cognate with Turkish az, Azerbaijani az, etc.

Adverb

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аз (az)

  1. few, little

Kumyk

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (few, little). Cognate with Azerbaijani az, etc.

Adverb

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аз (az)

  1. few
  2. a little

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Бамматов Б.Г., editor (2013), “аз”, in Кумыкско-русский словарь [Kumyk–Russian dictionary], Makhachkala: ИЯЛИ ДНЦ РАН

Kyrgyz

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (few, little). Cognate with Azerbaijani az, etc.

Adverb

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аз (az) (Arabic spelling از)

  1. few
  2. a little

Mongolian

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Etymology

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Often paired and contrasted with эз (ez, omen, fate).
Morphologically it looks like the Mongolic defective verb *a- (be) + (-z) (ᠵᠠ (ǰa) ) suffix, but the semantics are unclear.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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аз (az) (Mongolian spelling ᠠᠵᠠ (aǰa))

  1. fortune, luck

Derived terms

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Ossetian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ä́z̠]
  • Hyphenation: аз

Noun

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аз (az)

  1. year

Declension

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Russian

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From the pronoun with the same spelling, see below.

Noun

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аз (azm inan (genitive аза́, nominative plural азы́, genitive plural азо́в)

  1. (archaic) name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
    Synonym: а (a)
  2. (plural only, dated) letters
  3. (plural only) basics, fundamentals
Declension
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic азъ (azŭ), from Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ.

Pronoun

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аз (az)

  1. (archaic, biblical) I (first person singular nominative pronoun)
    Synonym: я (ja)
    аз есмь госпо́дь бог твойaz jesmʹ gospódʹ bog tvojI am your Lord God

Pronoun

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аз (az) (genitive аза́)

  1. (colloquial, ironic) yours truly, your humble servant (as a self-deprecating, third-person reference to oneself)
    поми́луй гре́шного аза́pomíluj gréšnovo azáforgive this humble sinner
Declension
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Tajik

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Dari از
Iranian Persian
Tajik аз

Etymology

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From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭭 (az).

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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аз (az)

  1. from, since

Tatar

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Adverb

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аз (az)

  1. a bit, slightly