# قز
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Aramaic קָזָא / קָאזָא (qāzzā, “floss silk, cotton-seed”) from Middle Persian [script needed] (kač) (New Persian کژ (kaž)), which has also been borrowed directly as خَزّ (ḵazz). See the New Persian entry for more.

#### Alternative forms

* خَزّ (ḵazz)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /qazz/

#### Noun

قَزّ • (qazz) m (plural قُزُوز (quzūz))
* silk, silkware

##### Descendants

* → Middle Armenian: կազ (kaz)
* → Catalan: gasa
* → Spanish: gasa
* → French: gaze
** → English: gauze
** → Danish: gaze
** → Dutch: gaas
** → German: Gaze
** → Polish: gaza
** → Russian: газ (gaz)
** → Scots: gais, gaes

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

قَزَّ • (qazza) I (non-past يَقُزُّ (yaquzzu), verbal noun قَزّ (qazz) or قَزَازَة (qazāza))
* to abhor, to shrink in the soul from, to detest, to loathe

##### Conjugation
### References

* “qz”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* Asbaghi, Asya (2008) “Persian Loanwords”, in Versteegh, Kees, editor, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 582
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 41–42
* Freytag, Georg (1835) “قز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 438–439
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “قز”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2519–2520
* Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 240

## Gulf Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Persian گز (gaz, “gaz, nougat”).

#### Alternative forms

* گز (gaz)

#### Pronunciation

* (Kuwait) IPA: /ɡɐz/

#### Noun

قز • (gaz) m
* (uncountable) an Iranian sweet similar to nougat.

### Etymology 2

According to Kuwaiti linguist Yusuf Al-Bader, it is a borrowing From English gaze.

#### Noun

قز • (gazz) ?
* purposeless wandering, especially in shopping malls
    Synonym: فرارة (frāra)

#### Verb

قز • (gazz)
* to idle time by wandering around purposelessly, especially in shopping malls; to gallivant; to potter; to dawdle; to saunter; to loaf; to mosey
    Synonyms: حاس (ḥās), فر (farr)
* to mooch.
** 2008 December 28, Faisal Abdelrahman il-Baidan, “ابتسم‮ ‬أنت‮ ‬كويتي”, in Alshahed Daily‎:"...‬وتنطر تخلص قز علشان تروح حق مطعم المشكل بـ‮ ‬100‮ ‬والشاورما بربع‮.‬"... and [you] wait until [you] finish wandering around purposelessly so you get to go to the 100 Fils Mshakkal restaurant and the qurater [[[Dinar]]] Shawarma restaurant.
** 2010 October 10, “كواليس”, in Alanbaa Daily‎:"مخرج توهق بفنان شاب مو ملتزم بتصوير مشاهده في مسلسله اليديد بسبة إنه مشغول مع والدته المريضة وبعد مراقبته طلع مقزرها قز بالمجمعات التجارية والقهاوي.. استبدله وفك عمرك! ‬"A director is having issues with an undisciplined young actor who can't do his scenes because he is busy with [taking care of] his ill mother, and after monitoring him it was revealed that he was spending all his time in shopping malls and coffee shops... Replace him and find salvation!

### References

* ↑ Alwatan Daily. 22-5-2012." يوسف البدر يستعرض كلمات كويتية اصولها الاولى بريطانية في جامعة شيفيلد بالمملكة المتحدة". Presentation by Hadi Darwish.

## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Alternative forms

* قیز (qız)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kï̄ŕ.

### Noun

قِزْ (qız)
* girl, maiden
* daughter
** 14th Century, anonymous author, Dresden Manuscript: Kitāb-ı Dedem Ḳorḳud Alā Lisān-ı Tāife-i Oġuzān:قز آنادن كورمينجه اوكت آلمز، اوغل آتادن چكمينجه صفره چكمز.qız anadan görmäyincä ögüt almaz, oġul atadan görmäyincä sofra çäkmäz[a] daughter doesn't take advice without seeing from her mother, [a] son cannot set up a table without seeing from his father

#### Related terms

* قرناق

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: qız
* Gagauz: kız
* Ottoman Turkish: قیز (kız)
** Turkish: kız
** Kurdish:
    → Northern Kurdish: qîz

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kız”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* “kız”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).

#### Noun

قز • (kazz, kaz)
* silk, a fine fiber excreted by the silkworm
    Synonyms: ابرشیم (ibrişim), ایپك (ipek), حریر (harir)
* raw silk, silk that has not been processed
* silkware woven from spun or refuse silk

##### Descendants

* Turkish: kaz

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2504
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 959
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sericum”, 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 1545
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3687
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1453

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

قز • (kız)
* Alternative spelling of قیز (kız)

#### Further reading

* “kız”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977