# مزه
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian مزه (maze).

### Noun

مزه • (meze)
* pleasant taste, flavour, smack or relish
    Synonyms: چاشنی (çeşni), ذوق (zevk), طات (tat), لذت (lezzet), نمك (nemek)
* any good-flavoured thing eaten to increase the appetite
* (figuratively) pleasantry, jocose saying or remark

#### Descendants

* Turkish: meze
* → Arabic: مَزَّة (mazza)
* → Armenian: մեզե (meze), մա̈զա̈ (mäzä)
* → Albanian: meze
* → Aromanian: mize
* → Bulgarian: мезе́ (mezé)
* → Greek: μεζές (mezés)
** → English: meze
* → Macedonian: мезе (meze)
* → Romanian: meze
* → Serbo-Croatian: mèze / мѐзе

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meze1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3191
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مزه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1156
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gustus”, 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, Vienna, column 677
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مزه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4602
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meze”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مزه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1826

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (myck', m(y)ck' /⁠mizag⁠/, “taste”), a derivative of Proto-Iranian *mak- (“to suck”), which is perhaps a semantic extension of Proto-Iranian *mak- (“to wet, moisten”) reinforced by sound-symbolism, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂k- (“to moisten”). In this case, cognate with Proto-Slavic *močìti (“to wet”); see there for more cognates. For a semantic parallel between "consuming" and "wettening", compare Lithuanian válgyti (“to eat”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ma.za], [maz.za]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mä.zä], [mäz.zä]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mä.zä], [mäz.zä]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mä.zä], [mäz.zä]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mä.zä], [mäz.zä]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mæ.ze], [mæz.ze]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mä.zä], [mäz.zä]

### Noun

| Dari | مزه |
| Iranian Persian | مزه |
| Tajik | маза, мазза |
مزه • (maze) (plural مزه‌ها (maze-hâ))
* taste, flavour, smack, relish
    .مزه‌ی این سیب ترش استmaze-ye in sib torš ast.This apple tastes sour.(literally, “The flavor of this apple is sour”)
* joy, pleasure
* a snack; a morsel taken after drinking liquor.

#### Synonyms

* طعم (ta'm)
* خوا (xovâ)
* چشیدن (čašidan)

#### Derived terms

* خوش‌مزه (xoš-maze)
* بدمزه (bad-maze)
* مزه‌دار (maze-dâr)
* بی‌مزه (bê-maze)
* بامزه (bâ-maze)
* مزه دادن (maze dâdan)
* مزه کردن (maze kardan)
* مزه دهن (maze-ye dahan)

#### Descendants

* → Assamese: মজা (moza)
* → Azerbaijani: məzə
* → Bengali: মজা (moja)
* → Gujarati: મજા (majā)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: मज़ा (mazā)
    Urdu: مزہ (maza)
* → Kazakh: маза (maza)
* → Marathi: मजा (majā)
* → Middle Armenian: մազայ (mazay)
* → Middle Georgian: მაზა (maza)
* → Ottoman Turkish: مزه (meze)
** Turkish: meze
** → Arabic: مَزَّة (mazza)
** → Albanian: meze
** → Aromanian: mize
** → Bulgarian: мезе́ (mezé)
** → Greek: μεζές (mezés)
*** → English: meze
** → Macedonian: мезе (meze)
** → Romanian: meze
** → Serbo-Croatian: mèze / мѐзе
* → Punjabi: ਮਜਾ (majā)

### References

* ↑ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) “*²mak-, *³maik- : *mik-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 169; 171
* ↑ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) “*¹mak-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 168
* ↑ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “مزه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
* ↑ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “mizag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press