# ὄρυζα
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ὄρυζον (óruzon)

### Etymology

A borrowing from an Eastern Iranian language, from Proto-Iranian *wrinǰiš or *wriHǰíš; compare Pashto وريژې pl (wriže). See the Iranian forms listed at Old Persian *vrinjiš, especially those without the nasal infix, for more on the etymon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ó.ryz.da/ → /ˈo.ry.za/ → /ˈo.ri.za/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ó.ryz.da/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈo.ry.za/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈo.ry.za/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈo.ry.za/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈo.ri.za/

### Noun

ὄρυζᾰ • (óruza) f (genitive ὀρύζης); first declension
* rice (Oryza sativa)

#### Derived terms

* ὀρυζοτροφέω (oruzotrophéō)
* ὀρύζιον (orúzion)

#### Related terms

* ὀρίνδης (oríndēs)

#### Descendants

* Greek: όρυζα (óryza)
* → Arabic: رُزّ (ruzz), أَرُزّ (ʔaruzz), *رَوْز (*rawz)
** Hijazi Arabic: رُز (ruzz)
** Maltese: ross, rożż (obsolete)
** →? Afar: rúddi (possibly from Amharic)
** → Amharic: ሩዝ (ruz)
** → Middle Armenian: ռուզ (ṙuz)
** → Ottoman Turkish: رز (rüz)
** → Middle Armenian: ըռուզ (əṙuz)
** → Ottoman Turkish: ارز (ürüz, erz)
** Andalusian Arabic: روز (rawz)
*** → Asturian: arroz
*** → Old Galician-Portuguese:
**** Galician: arroz
**** Portuguese: arroz
***** → Kaingang: aronh
*** → Old Spanish: arroz
**** Spanish: arroz
***** → Navajo: alóós
***** → Ye'kwana: ado
**** Ladino: arroz
** Moroccan Arabic: روز (rūz)
*** → Tarifit: aṛṛuẓ
** South Levantine Arabic: روز (rōz)
* → Aramaic: אורז (ˀwrz /⁠ˀŏroz⁠/), ארוזא (ˀrwzˀ /⁠ˀurŭzā⁠/)
** Classical Syriac: ܐܘܪܘܙܐ (ʾōrūzā)
* → Hebrew: אורז / אֹרֶז ('órez)
* → Latin: orīza, oryza, (Late Latin) risus
** → Bulgarian: ориз (oriz)
** → Macedonian: ориз (oriz)
** → Middle High German: rīs
*** German: Reis
*** → Polish: ryż
**** → Ukrainian: риж (ryž)
*** → Latvian: rīss
** → Middle Low German: rīs
*** → Old Norse: rís
**** Danish: ris
**** Faroese: rís
**** Icelandic: hrís
**** Norwegian Bokmål: ris
**** Norwegian Nynorsk: ris
**** Swedish: ris
*** → Russian: рис (ris)
** → Italian: riso
*** → Old French: ris
**** French: riz
**** → Middle English: rys
***** English: rice
****** Tok Pisin: rais
***** → Irish: rís
** → Translingual: Oryza
* → Laz: ორზა (orza)
* → Mingrelian: ორზა (orza), ორჷზა (orəza), ორიზა (oriza)
* → Old Armenian: որիզ (oriz)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὄρυζα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1112-3

### Further reading

* “ὄρυζα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* ὄρυζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. rice idem, page 712.
* Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) “vrīhíḥ”, in Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 282
* Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “vrīhí-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 597-8
* “ὄρυζα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011