jazz

See also: Jazz

English

Alternative forms

• jaz, jas, jass, jasz (all dated, used from about 1912 to about 1918)

Etymology

Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæz/
• Rhymes: -æz

A jazz band, The King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra, in 1921.

Noun

jazz ‎(uncountable)

1. (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
2. Energy, excitement, excitability. Very lively.
3. The (in)tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a thing.

   What jazz were you referring to earlier?

   What is all this jazz lying around?

4. Unspecified thing(s).

   I'm just going down to the shops and jazz = I am off to purchase items and so on.

5. (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.

   That show was the jazz! = That musical concert/television program was most enjoyable.

   This risotto is simply the jazz. = This risotto was cooked in the classic manner.

6. Nonsense.

   Stop talking jazz.

Translations

musical art form

• Arabic: جَاز m ‎(jāz)
• Armenian: ջազ (hy) ‎(ǰaz)
• Belarusian: джаз m ‎(džaz)
• Bulgarian: джаз m ‎(džaz)
• Catalan: jazz m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 爵士樂 (zh), 爵士乐 (zh) ‎(juéshìyuè), 爵士 (zh) ‎(juéshì)

• Czech: džez (cs) m, jazz (cs) m
• Danish: jazz (da) c
• Dutch: jazz (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĵazo (eo)
• Estonian: džäss
• Faroese: djassur m
• Finnish: jazz (fi), jatsi (fi)
• French: jazz (fr) m
• Georgian: ჯაზი ‎(ǯazi)
• German: Jazz (de) m
• Greek: τζαζ (el) f ‎(tzaz)
• Hebrew: ג׳אז ‎(jaz), ג׳ז ‎(jez)
• Hindi: जाज़ ‎(jāz)
• Hungarian: dzsessz (hu)
• Icelandic: djass (is) m
• Ido: jazo (io)
• Irish: snagcheol m
• Italian: jazz (it) m
• Japanese: ジャズ (ja) ‎(jazu)
• Khmer: ហ្សាស ‎(zas)

• Korean: 재즈 (ko) ‎(jaejeu)
• Lithuanian: džiazas m
• Macedonian: џез m ‎(džez)
• Malay: jaz
• Maori: puoro takihuri
• Marathi: जॅज n ‎(jāza)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jazz (no) m

  Nynorsk: jazz m

• Persian: جاز (fa) ‎(jâz)
• Polish: dżez (pl) m, jazz (pl) m
• Portuguese: jazz (pt) m
• Romanian: jazz (ro) n
• Russian: джаз (ru) m ‎(džaz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: џез m

  Roman: džez (sh) m

• Slovak: džez m, jazz m
• Slovene: džez m, jazz m
• Spanish: jazz (es) m
• Swedish: jazz (sv) c
• Tagalog: diyas, dyas
• Turkish: caz (tr)
• Turkmen: jaz (tk)
• Ukrainian: джаз m ‎(džaz)
• Uyghur: جاز ‎(jaz)
• Yiddish: דזשאַז m ‎(dzhaz)

the (in)tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a thing

• Polish: cała reszta

Unspecified thing(s)

• Polish: różne takie

• Portuguese: porcariada f, coisarada f

Of excellent quality, the genuine article

• Polish: świetny (pl) m

• Portuguese: suprassumo (pt) m

Nonsense

• Polish: bzdura (pl) f

• Portuguese: besteira (pt) f

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• Basque: ^{(please verify)} jazz
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} джаз ‎(džaz)
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} jazz
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} ג׳אז ‎(jaz)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} जैज़ ‎(jaiz)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} jazz
• Kannada: ^{(please verify)} ಜಾಝ್ ಸಂಗೀತ ‎(jājh saṃgīta)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} iazium

• Persian: ^{(please verify)} جاز
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} jazz
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} แจ๊ส ‎(jɛ́ɛs)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} джаз ‎(džaz)
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} جاز
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} nhạc jazz
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} jazz

Verb

jazz ‎(third-person singular simple present jazzes, present participle jazzing, simple past and past participle jazzed)

1. To play jazz music.
2. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
3. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
4. To complicate.

   Don’t jazz it too much! = Be careful, it was good to start with!

5. (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 59:

     ‘Jazzing?’ Temple whispered [...]. ‘Yes, putty-face!’ the woman said. ‘How do you suppose I paid that lawyer?’

6. To destroy.

   You’ve gone and jazzed it now! = It is ruined.

7. To distract/pester.

   Stop jazzing me! = Leave me alone.

Derived terms

Terms derived from jazz

• acid jazz
• cool jazz
• jazzbo
• jazzer

• jazz-funk
• jazz fusion
• jazz-like
• jazz-rock

• jazz up
• jazzy
• smooth jazz

Translations

to play jazz music

• Danish: spille jazz

• Finnish: soittaa jazzia, jatsata

to dance to jazz music

• Danish: jazze

• Finnish: jatsata

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowing from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m ‎(plural jazz)

1. jazz

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowing from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m

1. jazz

Declension

Declension of jazz

	singular	plural
nominative	jazz	jazzy
genitive	jazzu	jazzů
dative	jazzu	jazzům
accusative	jazz	jazzy
vocative	jazze	jazzy
locative	jazzu	jazzech
instrumental	jazzem	jazzy

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Etymology

Borrowing from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m ‎(uncountable)

1. jazz

Derived terms

• jazzzanger
• jazzzangeres

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowing from English jazz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑts/

Noun

jazz

1. jazz (style of music)

Declension

Inflection of jazz (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		jazz	jazzit
genitive		jazzin	jazzien
partitive		jazzia	jazzeja
illative		jazziin	jazzeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		jazz	jazzit
accusative	nom.	jazz	jazzit
	gen.	jazzin
genitive		jazzin	jazzien
partitive		jazzia	jazzeja
inessive		jazzissa	jazzeissa
elative		jazzista	jazzeista
illative		jazziin	jazzeihin
adessive		jazzilla	jazzeilla
ablative		jazzilta	jazzeilta
allative		jazzille	jazzeille
essive		jazzina	jazzeina
translative		jazziksi	jazzeiksi
instructive		—	jazzein
abessive		jazzitta	jazzeitta
comitative		—	jazzeineen

Synonyms

• jatsi

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English jazz. The compound jazband is attested in a 1918 copy of Le Matin.

Noun

jazz m ‎(uncountable)

1. (music) jazz (music style)

Derived terms

• jazz
• jazzifier
• jazzman

External links

• “jazz” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m ‎(invariable)

1. (music) jazz

Derived terms

• jazzista
• jazzistico

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• jass

Etymology

Borrowing from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m ‎(definite singular jazzen)

1. (uncountable) jazz (form of music)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• jass

Etymology

Borrowing from English jazz.

Noun

jazz m ‎(definite singular jazzen)

1. (uncountable) jazz (form of music)

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowing from English jazz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʐɛs/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophones: dżez

Noun

jazz m inan

1. jazz (music)

Declension

declension of jazz

	singular
nominative	jazz
genitive	jazzu
dative	jazzowi
accusative	jazz
instrumental	jazzem
locative	jazzie
vocative	jazzie

Synonyms

• dżez

Derived terms

• jazzowy
• jazzband
• jazzman

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English jazz.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛs/

Noun

jazz m (uncountable)

1. (music) jazz (music genre)

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:jazz.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English jazz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʝas/

Noun

jazz m ‎(uncountable)

1. jazz

Derived terms

• jazzista m, f