# аз
## Bulgarian
### Alternative forms

* а́зе (áze), я́зе (jáze), я (ja) — regional
* а́зи (ázi)
* ес (es) — dialectal
* азъ (az) (Pre-reform orthography (1945))

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic азъ (azŭ), from Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [as]
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

аз • (az) (personal)
* I; the first-person singular pronoun in the nominative case, used as the subject of a verb.
    Аз съм по-висо́ка от теб.Az sǎm po-visóka ot teb.I am taller than you.
    Аз не гово́ря англи́йски.Az ne govórja anglíjski.I don't speak English.

#### Related terms
### References

* ↑ “аз”, in Български тълковен речник [Bulgarian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), fourth edition, Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 2005, page 20
* ↑ Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “аз”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 5
* ↑ Mate Kapović, Reconstruction of Balto-Slavic Personal Pronouns (2006)
* ↑ Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “аз”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 5
* ↑ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*azъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 100
* “аз”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
* “аз”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

### Anagrams

* за (za), за- (za-)

## Chechen
### Etymology

From *awaz, from a Turkic language, ultimately from Persian آواز. Compare Tatar аваз (awaz).

### Noun

аз • (az) ?
* voice

## Kazakh
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, little”). Cognate with Turkish az, Azerbaijani az, etc.

### Adverb

аз • (az)
* few, little

## Kumyk
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, little”). Cognate with Azerbaijani az, etc.

### Adverb

аз • (az)
* few
* a little

#### Derived terms

* бираз (biraz)

### Further reading

* Бамматов Б.Г., editor (2013), “аз”, in Кумыкско-русский словарь [Kumyk–Russian dictionary], Makhachkala: ИЯЛИ ДНЦ РАН

## Kyrgyz
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, little”). Cognate with Azerbaijani az, etc.

### Adverb

аз • (az) (Arabic spelling از)
* few
* a little

## Mongolian
### Etymology

Often paired and contrasted with эз (ez, “omen, fate”). Morphologically it looks like the Mongolic defective verb *a- (“be”) + -з (-z) (ᠵᠠ (ǰa) ) suffix, but the semantics are unclear.

### Pronunciation

* (Ulaanbaatar) IPA: /at͡s/, [at͡s]

### Noun

аз • (az) (Mongolian spelling ᠠᠵᠠ (aǰa))
* fortune, luck

#### Derived terms

* аз жаргал (az žargal, “happiness”)

## Ossetian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ä́z̠]
* Hyphenation: аз

### Noun

аз • (az)
* year

#### Declension
## Russian
### Alternative forms

* азъ (az) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [as]

### Etymology 1

From the pronoun with the same spelling, see below.

#### Noun

аз • (az) m inan (genitive аза́, nominative plural азы́, genitive plural азо́в)
* (archaic) name of the Cyrillic letter А, а
    Synonym: а (a)
* (plural only, dated) letters
* (plural only) basics, fundamentals

##### Derived terms

* а́збука f (ázbuka), азы́ m pl (azý)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic азъ (azŭ), from Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ.

#### Pronoun

аз • (az)
* (archaic, biblical) I (first person singular nominative pronoun)
    Synonym: я (ja)
    аз есмь госпо́дь бог твой ― az jesmʹ gospódʹ bog tvoj ― I am your Lord God

#### Pronoun

аз • (az) (genitive аза́)
* (colloquial, ironic) yours truly, your humble servant (as a self-deprecating, third-person reference to oneself)
    поми́луй гре́шного аза́ ― pomíluj gréšnovo azá ― forgive this humble sinner

##### Declension
## Tajik
### Etymology

Inherited from Classical Persian اَز (az).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /az/, [ʔäz]

### Preposition

аз • (az) (Persian spelling از)
* from, since

## Tatar
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *āŕ. Cognate to Bashkir әҙ (əź), etc.

### Adverb

аз • (az)
* a bit, slightly