آز

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (few, a little).

Determiner

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آز (az)

  1. few, a little
  2. insignificant, paltry, of little account
  3. seldom

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: az

Further reading

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Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? āz
Dari reading? āz
Iranian reading? âz
Tajik reading? oz

Noun

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Dari آز
Iranian Persian
Tajik оз

آز (âz)

  1. greed, avidity, covetousness
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 3484:
      لیک صیقل کرده‌‌اند آن سینه‌‌ها
      پاک از آز و حرص و بخل و کینه‌‌ها
      lêk sayqal karda-and ân sina-hâ
      pâk az âz u hirs u buxl u kina-hâ
      But they have burnished their breasts
      (and made them) pure from greed and cupidity and avarice and hatreds.

References

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Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “آز”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim