مغز

See also: معز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian مغز (mağz).

Noun

مغز • (mağz)

1. brain, the organ which controls the central nervous system

   Synonyms: بینی (beyni), دماغ (demağ), مخ (muh)

2. kernel, marrow, pith, core, essence of a thing

   Synonyms: اوز (öz), لب (lubb), مخ (muh)

3. (by extension) mind, sense, understanding, intellect

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mağz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3010
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مغز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1199
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cerebrum”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 170
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مغز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4795
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مغز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1924

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mzg /⁠mazg⁠/, “brain, marrow”), from Proto-Iranian *mazgáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mazgʰás, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos. Cognate of English marrow.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [maɣz]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäɣz]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäɣz]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäɣz]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäɣz]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæɢz]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʁz]

Readings
Classical reading?	mağz
Dari reading?	mağz
Iranian reading?	mağz
Tajik reading?	maġz

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Noun

Dari	مغز
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мағз

مغز • (mağz) (plural مغزها (mağz-hâ))

1. brain
2. marrow

Derived terms

• بی‌مغز (bê-mağz)
• فرار مغزها (farâr-e mağz-hâ)
• مغز پسته (mağz-e peste)
• مغزپسته‌ای (mağz-e-peste-'i)

 

Descendants

• → Gujarati: મગજ (magaj)