بیضه

See also: بيضة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَيْضَة (bayḍa).

Noun

بیضه • (beyza) (plural بیضات (beyzat))

1. egg, an organic vessel grown by birds, reptiles, insects, and other animals

   Synonyms: تخم (tohum), یومورطه (yumurta)

2. testicle, the male sex and endocrine gland, found in some types of animals

   Synonyms: خایه (haya), خصیه (husye), طاشاق (taşak)

3. kind of helmet made of iron, used to protect the head during a fight or battle
4. (by extension) headache, cephalalgia, a pain or ache in the head

   Synonym: باش آغریسی (baş ağrısı)

5. (figuratively) the midst, heart, or body of a people or country, like a metropolis

Derived terms

• بیضه‌باز (beyzabaz, “one who plays at eggbreaking”)

Descendants

• Turkish: beyza, beyze, beyzi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beyzi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 576
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “beyze”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 122
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیضه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 301
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ovum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1230
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بیضه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 996
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “beyzi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیضه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 421

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَيْضَة (bayḍa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [baj.za]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bäj.zä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bäj.zä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bäj.zä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bäj.zä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bejze]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bäj.zä]

Readings
Classical reading?	bayza
Dari reading?	bayza
Iranian reading?	beyze
Tajik reading?	bayza

Noun

بیضه • (beyze) (plural بیضه‌ها (beyze-hâ))

1. (anatomy) testicle

   Synonym: خایه (xâye)

Derived terms

• پوست بیضه (pust-e beyze)
• کیسه بیضه (kise-ye beyze)