بز

Cognate to Aramaic בִּיזָא‎, ܒܷܙܐ‎ (bizzā, “teat”), בּוּזָא‎ (buzzā, “teat”), Ugaritic 𐎁𐎑 (bẓ, “teat”). Differently Akkadian 𒍣𒍣𒂊 (/zīzu/, “teat”), Hebrew זִיז‎ (zīz, “abundance, teat, protuberance”), Hebrew דַּד‎ (dad, “teat”), Aramaic דַּדָּא‎ (daddā, “teat”).

بِزّ or بُزّ • (bizz or buzz) m (plural بِزَاز‎ (bizāz) or أَبْزَاز‎ (ʾabzāz))

1. teat, mamma

• بَزَّازَة‎ (bazzāza, “soother”)

Ultimately a re-borrowing from what was originally a Semitic source (Akkadian 𒁍𒌋𒋗 (bu-u-ṣu /būṣu/)); see also بِزَّة‎ (bizza, “suit”).

• Borrowed from Old Armenian բեհեզ (behez) or the earlier Old Armenian *բեեզ (*beez)
• Alternatively, a clipping of بُزْيُون‎ (buzyūn, “a kind of silk garment”), from Byzantine Greek βυσσίνη (bussínē), or from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “a very fine yellowish flax and the linen woven from it”).

بَزّ • (bazz) m (plural بُزُوز‎ (buzūz))

1. (now regional) garment, raiment, weed
   • 7th century CE, Jamīʿ at-Tirmiḏiyy, 14:12:

     ‏قَدِمَ بَزٌّ مِنَ ٱلشَّامِ لِفُلَانٍ الْيَهُودِيِّ‎

     qadima bazzun mina š-šāmi lifulānin al-yahūdiyyi

     Some clothing arrived from the north for so-and-so, the Jew.

   • 7th century CE, Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik, 31:

     ‏قَالَ مَالِكٌ فِي الرَّجُلِ يَشْتَرِي الإِبِلَ أَوِ الْغَنَمَ أَوِ الْبَزَّ أَوِ الرَّقِيقَ أَوْ شَيْئًا مِنَ الْعُرُوضِ جِزَافًا إِنَّهُ لَا يَكُونُ الْجِزَافُ فِي شَىْءٍ مِمَّا يُعَدُّ عَدًّا.‏‎

     qāla mālikun fī r-rajuli yaštarī l-ʾibila ʾawi l-ḡanama ʾawi l-bazza ʾawi r-raqīqa ʾaw šayʾan mina l-ʿurūḍi jizāfan ʾinnahu lā yakūnu l-jizāfu fī šāʾin mimmā yuʿaddu ʿaddan.

     Malik said about a man who bought camels and sheep and clothing and slaves and any larger good without measuring precisely that there is no wholesale acquisition of a thing that can be counted.

• بَزَّاز‎ (bazzāz, “garment salesman”)
• بِزَازَة‎ (bizāza, “garment trade”)
• بَزَّ‎ (bazza, “to strip off, to spoil, to remove by force”)
• اِبْتَزَّ‎ (ibtazza, “to strip off, to spoil, to remove by force”)

• → Ottoman Turkish: بز‎ (bez)
  • Turkish: bez
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: бе̏з

    Latin: bȅz

Apparently denominal verb of بَزّ‎ (bazz, “clothing”).

بَزَّ • (bazza) I, non-past يَبُزُّ‎‎ (yabuzzu)

1. to strip off, to spoil, to remove by force

   ‏مَن عَزَّ بَزَّ.‎‎ ― man ʿazza bazza. ― He who overcomes takes the spoil.

بَزّ • (bazz) m

1. verbal noun of بَزَّ (bazza) (form I)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “بز”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 80
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 42
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “بز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 116–117
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “بزيون”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 119
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “بز”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 120
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “بز”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 198
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “بز”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 70
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “بز”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 86

بز (biz)

1. Alternative spelling of بیز‎

بز (boz)

1. goat

• Khunsari: بزە‎ (buzä)
• Soi: بوزە‎ (būzä)

From Old Median *buzə́h, from Proto-Iranian *buĵáh.

• (Farizandi, Natanzi, Yarandi) IPA^(key): /boz/
• (Gazi, Kafroni, Kese'i, Khunsari, Sedehi, Vonishuni, Zefre'i) IPA^(key): /buz/
• (Mahallati) IPA^(key): /biz/
• (Qohrudi) IPA^(key): /bøz/
• (Yazdi) IPA^(key): /bu̞z/

بز (buz)

1. goat

From Proto-Iranian *buĵáh.

• IPA^(key): /bɛz/

بز (bez)

1. goat

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰕‎ (biz, “we”).

بز‎ • (biz)

1. we

• Turkish: biz

Borrowed from Persian بز‎ (boz).

بز • (büz)

1. goat

Borrowed from Arabic بَزّ‎ (bazz)

بز • (bez)

1. cloth, vestment, fabric (a generic term, indistinctive of whether it is a fabric or a garment)

• Turkish: bez
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бе̏з

  Latin: bȅz

From Arabic بَيْض‎ (bayḍ)

بز • (bez)

1. (anatomy) gland

• Turkish: bez

From Proto-Iranian *buĵáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰuĵás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūǵ-o-s, from *bʰuǵ- (“buck, he-goat”). Cognate with English buck (“male goat”).

• IPA^(key): /boz/

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بز • (boz) (plural بزها‎ (boz-hâ))

1. goat