جزیه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جِزْيَة (jizya, “jizya”).

Noun

جزیه • (cizye)

1. (Islam) jizya, a per capita tax levied on a section of an Islamic state's non-Muslim citizens

   Synonym: خراج (harac)

Descendants

• Turkish: cizye

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cizye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 828
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “cizye”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 176
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جزیه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 440
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tributum”, 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 1693
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جزیه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1613
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جزیه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 660

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic جِزْيَة (jizya), from Middle Persian 𐭢𐭦𐭩𐭲𐭪𐭩 (gzytky /⁠gazīdag⁠/), 𐭢𐭦𐭩𐭲 (gzyt /⁠gazīd⁠/, “poll tax”), or from Arabic ج ز ي (j z y); compare جَزَى (jazā, “to repay”). At least a semantic loan from Middle Persian. Compare the inherited گزیت (gazit).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒiz.ja]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɪz.jä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɪz.jä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒɪz.jä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒiz.jä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒez.je]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒiz.jä]

Readings
Classical reading?	jizya
Dari reading?	jizya
Iranian reading?	jezye
Tajik reading?	jizya

Noun

جزیه • (jezye) (plural جزیه‌ها (jezye-hâ))

1. jizya, tax paid by non-Muslims
2. head tax
3. customs tax
4. land tax
5. produce of the ground

Derived terms

• جزیه‌خانه (jezye-xâne)