# لوز
## Arabic
### Etymology

From Aramaic לוּזָא / ܠܽܘܙܳܐ (lūzā).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lawz/

### Noun

لَوْز • (lawz) m (collective, singulative لَوْزَة f (lawza))
* almond
* almond tree
* tonsil
* (singulative only) amygdala

#### Descendants

* Maltese: lewż
* Moroccan Arabic: لوز (lawz, lūz)
* South Levantine Arabic: لوز (lōz)
* → Amharic: ለውዝ (läwz)
* → Middle Armenian: լավզ (lavz)
* → Ottoman Turkish: لوز (levz)
** Turkish: levz
* → Persian: لوز (lowz)
* → Swahili: lozi

### References

* “lwz”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* Corriente, Federico (2005) “لوز”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe‎ (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 1073
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 145
* Freytag, Georg (1837) “لوز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 135
* Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 153–155
* Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎ (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 374
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لوز”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1173–1174

## Hijazi Arabic

* Root
* ل و ز
* 1 term

### Etymology

From Arabic لَوْز (lawz).

### Pronunciation 1

* IPA: /loːz/, [lo̞ːz]

#### Noun

لوز • (lōz) m (collective, singulative لوزة f (lōza), paucal لوزات (lōzāt))
* almond

### Pronunciation 2

* IPA: /luwaz/

#### Noun

لوز • (luwaz) m (collective, singulative لوزة f (lōza))
* tonsils

## Moroccan Arabic

* Root
* ل و ز
* 1 term

### Etymology 1

From Arabic لَوْز (lawz).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lawz/, /luːz/
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

لوز • (lawz, lūz) m (collective, singulative لوزة f (lawza, lūz), paucal لوزات (lawzāt, lūzāt))
* almonds
    Synonym: نوى (nwa)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /law.waz/

#### Verb

لوز • (lawwaz) II (non-past يلوز (ylawwaz), verbal noun تلواز (talwāz), active participle ملوز (mlawwaz))
* to belly dance

##### Conjugation
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَوْز (lawz, “almond”).

### Noun

لوز • (levz)
* almond, the nut produced by the small tree Prunus amygdalus
    Synonym: بادم (badem)

#### Derived terms

* لوز هندی (levz hindi, “cocoa”)
* لوزی (levzî, “pertaining to almonds”)
* لوزینه (levzine, “sweetmeat of pounded almonds”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: levz

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “levz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2960
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1083
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4206
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1643

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَوْز (lawz).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [lawz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [läwz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [läwz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [läwz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [läwz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [lowz]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [läwz]

### Noun

| Dari | لوز |
| Iranian Persian | لوز |
| Tajik | лавз |
لوز • (lowz)
* almond
* a type of marzipan

#### Related terms

* لوزینه (lowzine)

### References

* ↑ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لوز”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1131

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic لَوْز (lawz).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /loːz/, [loːz]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Noun

لوز • (lōz) m (collective, singulative لوزة f (lōze))
* (uncountable) almond