درزی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian درزی (darzi).

Noun

درزی • (derzi)

1. alternative form of ترزی (terzi)

Etymology 2

From Arabic دَرْزِيّ (darziyy), from the same Persian word as the previous sense.

Noun

درزی • (Dürzi)

1. Druze

Descendants

• Turkish: Dürzi

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “درزی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 569

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (dlcyk' /⁠darzīg⁠/, “tailor”). Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *darz- (“to attach, fasten; to load; to sew”). Cognate with Talysh دشتن (dešten, “to sew”) (present stem: درز (derz)) (in Shaft).

Also from Iranian: Old Armenian դերձակ (derjak), post-classical դերձիկ (derjik), դերզիկ (derzik), Classical Syriac ܕܪܙܝܩܐ (darzīqā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /dar.ˈziː/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.ziː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.ziː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.ziː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.zi]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪æɹ.ziː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪äɾ.zi]

Readings
Classical reading?	darzī
Dari reading?	darzī
Iranian reading?	darzi
Tajik reading?	darzi

Noun

Dari	درزی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дарзӣ

درزی • (darzi) (plural درزی‌ها)

1. tailor, seamster

   Synonyms: درزیگر (darzigar), خیاط (xayyât)

Derived terms

• درزیگر (darzigar)
• درزیگری (darzigari)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Arabic: دَرْزِيّ (darziyy)
• → Armenian: դարզի (darzi)
• → Azerbaijani: dərzi / درزی
• → Bengali: দর্জি (dorji)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: दर्ज़ी (darzī)

  Urdu: درزی (darzī)

• → Pashto: درزي (darzi)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਦਰਜ਼ੀ (darzī), ਦਰਜੀ (darjī)

  Shahmukhi script: درزی (darzī)

• → Ottoman Turkish: ترزی (terzi), درزی (derzi)
  • Turkish: terzi
  • → Albanian: terzi
  • → Arabic: تَرْزِيّ (tarziyy)
  • → Armenian: թարզի (tʻarzi), թերզի (tʻerzi)
  • → Bulgarian: терзи́я (terzíja)
  • → Georgian: თერძი (terʒi)
  • → Macedonian: терзија (terzija)
  • → Romanian: terziu
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: терзија

    Latin script: terzija

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “درزی+darzī”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• ʿAmīd, Ḥasan (1985), “درزی”, in Farhang-e Fārsī-e ʿAmīd (in Persian), Tehrān: Amīrkabīr
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971), “դերձակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 656–657
• Cheung, Johnny (2007), Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 62ff

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian درزی (darzī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪əɾ.ziː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: دَر‧زی

Noun

دَرْزی • (darzī) f (Hindi spelling दर्ज़ी)

1. tailor; seamster

Declension

Declension of درزی

	singular	plural
direct	درزی (darzī)	درزِیاں (darziyā̃)
oblique	درزی (darzī)	درزِیوں (darziyō̃)
vocative	درزی (darzī)	درزِیو (darziyō)

References

• “درزی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “درزی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.