# تازی
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* طازی (tazı)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تازی (tâzi, “a dog breed”), itself from Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, “swift, fast”).

### Noun

تازی • (tazı) (definite accusative تازیی (tazıyı), plural تازیلر (tazılar))
* greyhound, a lean breed of dog which has been bred for coursing, racing and hunting

#### Derived terms

* تازیلاتمق (tazılatmak, “to make or let become as thin as a greyhound”)
* تازیلامق (tazılamak, “to become as thin as a greyhound”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: tazı

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تازی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 432
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tazı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4655
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تازی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 143a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تازی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 336
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Canis leporarius”, 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 142
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تازی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1039
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tazı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تازی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 476

## Persian

| Dari | تازی |
| Iranian Persian | تازی |
| Tajik | тозӣ |

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [tɑː.ˈziː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɑː.zíː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɑː.zíː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t̪ʰɑː.zíː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t̪ʰɔː.zí]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɒː.zíː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰɔ.zí]

### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian tʾcyk' (Tāzīg, “Arab”), from Arabic طَيِّء (ṭayyiʔ, “name of an Arab clan”). Compare Classical Syriac ܛܝܝܐ (ṭayyāyā, “Arab”).

#### Noun

تازی • (tâzi) (plural تازیان (tâziân) or تازی‌ها (tâzi-hâ))
* (derogatory, ethnic slur) Arab
* (archaic) Arabian horse

#### Adjective

تازی • (tâzi)
* Arab
    Synonym: عرب (arab)
** 1957, Zarrinkub, Do Qarn Sokut. p. 125.
    نهضت خون‌آلود و گرم و سوزان او که بیش از هفتاد روز طول نکشید برای کسانیکه پس از او برضد ستمکاران تازی قیام کردند سرمشق زنده‌یی بود.Nahzat-e xun-âlud o garm o suzân-e u ke biš az haftâd ruz tul nakešid barâye kasânike pas az u bar-zedde setamkârân-e Tâzi qiyâm kardand sar-e-mašq-e zene-yi bud. His [Sinbad the Magus] bloody, heart-rending movement, which didn't last more than seventy days, was a good role model for those who rose up against the Arab oppressors after him.
* Arabic
    Synonym: عربی (arabi)

##### Derived terms

* اسب تازی (asb-e tâzi)
* تازیکاندن (tâzikândan)

#### Related terms

* تات (tât)
* تاجیک (tâjik)
* تازک (tâzek)
* تازیک (tâzik)
* تاژیک (tâžik)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Persian tʾcyk' (tāzīg, “swift, fast”).

#### Noun

تازی • (tâzi) (plural تازیان (tâziân) or تازی‌ها (tâzi-hâ))
* a dog breed

##### Descendants

* → Middle Armenian: թազի (tʻazi)
** Armenian: թազի (tʻazi), թա̈զի (tʻäzi), թա̈րզի (tʻärzi)
* → Ottoman Turkish: تازی (tazı), طازی (tazı)
** Turkish: tazı

### Etymology 3

From تاز (tâz) +‎ ـی (-i).

#### Noun

تازی • (tâzi) (plural تازیان (tâziân) or تازی‌ها (tâzi-hâ))
* invader

### Further reading

* تازی on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fa}$

### References

* Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “تازی”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “tāzīg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
* B.G. Franger. "Tādjīk", Encyclopedia of Islam. vol. X. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000. →ISBN.

## Urdu
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /t̪ɑː.ziː/

### Adjective

تَازی • (tāzī) (Hindi spelling ताज़ी)
* feminine of تَازہ (“fresh”)