مغز

See also: معز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian مغز (maġz).

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] (in French), 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

Picture dictionary

مغز

جمجمه

مغز

چشم

لب

بینی

دهان

چانه

فک

گوش

گیجگاه

گردن

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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 Russian мозг (mozg), Serbo-Croatian мозак (mozak) and English marrow.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɣz/

 

• (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?	maġz
Dari reading?	maġz
Iranian reading?	maġz
Tajik reading?	maġz

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

مغز • (maġz) (plural مغزها (maġz-hā / maġz-hâ), Tajik spelling мағз)

1. brain
2. marrow

Derived terms

• بی‌مغز (bē-maġz / bi-maġz)
• فرار مغزها (farār-i maġz-hā / farâr-e maġz-hâ)
• مغز پسته (maġz-i pista / maġz-e peste)
• مغزپسته‌ای (maġz-i pista-ī / maġz-e peste-i)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: məğz
• → Bengali: মগজ (mogōj)
• → Chagatai: مغز (mġz /⁠mäġz⁠/)
  • Uzbek: magʻz, magʻiz
  • Uyghur: مېغىز (mëghiz)
• → Gujarati: મગજ (magaj)
• → Hindi: मग़ज़ (maġaz)
  • → English: maghaz
• → Kazakh: маңыз (mañyz)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مغز (mağz)
• → Turkmen: maňyz