# باز
## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* بَأْز (baʔz)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭡𐭠𐭰 (bʾc /⁠bāz⁠/, “hawk, falcon”); cognates with Old Armenian բազէ (bazē), Georgian ბაზი (bazi), Classical Syriac ܒܙܐ (bāzāʾ), and Hebrew בַּז (baz).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːz/
* Rhymes: -aːz

### Noun

بَازٌ • (bāzun) m (dual بَازَانِ (bāzāni), plural بِيزَان (bīzān) or أَبْوَاز (ʔabwāz) or بُزَاة (buzāh))
* hawk

#### Declension
### Noun

بَازٍ • (bāzin) m (construct state بَازِي (bāzī), dual بَازِيَانِ (bāziyāni), plural بَوَازٍ (bawāzin) or بُزَاةٌ (buzātun) or بِيزَانٌ (bīzānun))
* Alternative form of بَازٌ (bāzun)

#### Descendants

* Maltese: bies

## Burushaski
### Etymology

From Classical Persian باز (bāz), from Middle Persian 𐭡𐭠𐭰 (bʾc‌ /⁠bāz⁠/, “hawk, falcon”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [baːz]

### Noun

باز (baaz) (plural بازشݸ)
* falcon

### References

Sadaf Munshi (2015) “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project‎.

## Khalaj
### Noun

باز (bâz) (definite accusative بازؽ, plural بازلار)
* Arabic spelling of bâz (“falcon”)

#### Declension
## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بَاز (bāz).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːz/

### Noun

باز • (bāz) m (plural بيزان (bīzān))
* falcon

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian باز (bâz, “open”).

#### Adjective

باز • (baz)
* open
* alone
* distinct

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian باز (bâz, “again”).

#### Adverb

باز • (baz)
* again, anew
* re-
* openly

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Persian باز (bâz, “hawk, falcon”).

#### Noun

باز • (baz)
* hawk
* falcon

##### Related terms

* بازك (bazek)

### References

* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 321

## Pashto
### Noun

باز • (transliteration needed)
* hawk, falcon

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [bɑːz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bɑːz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bɑːz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [bɑːz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bɔːz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [bɒːz]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bɔz]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Etymology 1

Perhaps related to Etymology 2.
* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is this really related to Etymology 2? A relation to بختن (boxtan, “to save, liberate”) seems more semantically tenable.”

#### Adjective

باز • (bâz) (now especially Iran)
| Dari | واز |
| Iranian Persian | باز |
| Tajik | кушода |
* open, open wide
* (figurative) thawed
* (figurative) untied, unraveled, unfolded

##### Usage notes

In Classical Persian, both باز (bâz) and واز (vâz), variants of the same etymon, were in use. The former is now more common in the Iranian standard language and the latter in the Afghani standard, although the contracted وا (vâ) is also common in colloquial Iranian speech. Tajik usually uses the unrelated кушода (kušoda), equivalent to Iranian گشوده (gošude), which is now archaic both in Iranian and Afghani usage and mainly reserved for poetry.

##### Derived terms

* باز کردن (bâz kardan, “to open”)
* باز شدن (bâz šodan, “to be opened”)

##### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: باز
* → Swahili: wazi

### Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾpʾc), 𐫀𐫁𐫀𐫝 (ʾbʾc /⁠abāz⁠/, “back, again, re-”), from Proto-Iranian *apāča- (“back”), derived from Proto-Iranian *apānk- (“behind”), from Proto-Iranian *Hapá (“off, away”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hapá (“off, away”).
Less likely, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰe (instrumental particle) + *-ǵʰs (“out”), and cognate with Sanskrit बहिस् (bahis, “out, aside from”).

#### Adverb

| Dari | باز |
| Iranian Persian | باز |
| Tajik | боз |
باز • (bâz)
* again, re-
    Synonym: دوباره (do-bâre)
* still, yet (especially with هم (ham) as باز هم (bâz ham))
* (Dari, colloquial) then

##### Derived terms

* باز آمدن (bâz âmadan, “to come back”)

### Etymology 3

From Middle Persian 𐭡𐭠𐭰 (bʾc /⁠bāz⁠/, “hawk, falcon”). Related to Sanskrit भास (bhāsa, “bird of prey”), as well as Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian բազէ (bazē), Georgian ბაზი (bazi), and Classical Syriac ܒܙܝܩܐ (bāzīqā).

#### Noun

| Dari | باز |
| Iranian Persian | باز |
| Tajik | боз |
باز • (bâz) (plural بازها (bâz-hâ) or بازان (bâzân))
* hawk
* falcon

##### Descendants

* → Bengali: বাজ (baj)
* → Burushaski: baaz
* → Georgian: ბაზი (bazi)
* → Northern Kurdish: baz
* → Hindustani: (see there for further descendants)
    Hindi: बाज़ (bāz)
    Urdu: باز (bāz)
* → Khalaj: bâz
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਬਾਜ਼ (bāz)
    Shahmukhi script: باز (bāz)
* → Ottoman Turkish: باز (baz)
* → Old Armenian: բազէ (bazē)
** Armenian: բազե (baze)

### Etymology 4
#### Adjective

باز • (bâz)
* active participial adjective of باختن (bâxtan)

#### Verb

باز • (bâz)
* present stem form of باختن (bâxtan)

#### Derived terms
### References

* ↑ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 146
* ↑ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 184
* ↑ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 53

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian باز (bāz).

### Noun

باز • (bāzu) m (Devanagari spelling बाज़ु)
* hawk, falcon

## Urdu
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /bɑːz/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian باز (bāz).

#### Adjective

باز • (bāz) (Hindi spelling बाज़)
* open, open wide
    Synonyms: واز (vāz), وا (vā)

##### Derived terms

* باز کرنا (bāz karnā, “to open”)
* باز ہونا (bāz honā, “to be open, opened”)
* باز آنا (bāz ānā, “to give up”)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian باز (bāz).

#### Noun

باز • (bāz) m (Hindi spelling बाज़)
* hawk, falcon, eagle

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Classical Persian ـباز (-bāz).

#### Suffix

ـباز • (-bāz) (Hindi spelling -बाज़)
* skilled in

##### Examples

* جلدباز (jaldbāz)
* دھوکہ باز (dhoke-bāz)
* ڈرامہ باز (ḍarāme-bāz)

### References

* “باز”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “باز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Pashto باز (bāz).

### Noun

باز (bāz)
* eagle