# بز
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Cognate to Aramaic בִּיזָא, ܒܷܙܐ (bizzā, “teat”), בּוּזָא (buzzā, “teat”), Ugaritic 𐎁𐎑 (bẓ, “teat”). Differently Akkadian 𒍣𒍣𒂊 (/⁠zīzu⁠/, “teat”), Hebrew זִיז (zīz, “abundance, teat, protuberance”), Hebrew דַּד (dad, “teat”), Aramaic דַּדָּא (daddā, “teat”).

#### Noun

بِزّ or بُزّ • (bizz or buzz) m (plural بِزَاز (bizāz) or أَبْزَاز (ʔabzāz))
* teat, mamma

##### Derived terms

* بَزَّازَة (bazzāza, “soother”)

### Etymology 2

Ultimately a re-borrowing from what was originally a Semitic source (Akkadian 𒁍𒌋𒋗 (bu-u-ṣu /⁠būṣu⁠/)); see also بِزَّة (bizza, “suit”).
* Borrowed from Old Armenian բեհեզ (behez) or the earlier Old Armenian *բեեզ (*beez)
* Alternatively, a clipping of بُزْيُون (buzyūn, “a kind of silk garment”), from Byzantine Greek βυσσίνη (bussínē), or from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “a very fine yellowish flax and the linen woven from it”).

#### Noun

بَزّ • (bazz) m (plural بُزُوز (buzūz))
* (now regional) garment, raiment, weed
** 7th century CE, Jamīʿ at-Tirmiḏiyy, 14:12:قَدِمَ بَزٌّ مِنَ ٱلشَّامِ لِفُلَانٍ الْيَهُودِيِّqadima bazzun mina š-šāmi lifulānin al-yahūdiyyiSome clothing arrived from the north for so-and-so, the Jew.
** 7th century CE, Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik, section 31:قَالَ مَالِكٌ فِي الرَّجُلِ يَشْتَرِي الإِبِلَ أَوِ الْغَنَمَ أَوِ الْبَزَّ أَوِ الرَّقِيقَ أَوْ شَيْئًا مِنَ الْعُرُوضِ جِزَافًا إِنَّهُ لَا يَكُونُ الْجِزَافُ فِي شَىْءٍ مِمَّا يُعَدُّ عَدًّا.qāla mālikun fī r-rajuli yaštarī l-ʔibila ʔawi l-ḡanama ʔawi l-bazza ʔawi r-raqīqa ʔaw šayʔan mina l-ʕurūḍi jizāfan ʔinnahu lā yakūnu l-jizāfu fī šāʔin mimmā yuʕaddu ʕaddan.Malik said about a man who bought camels and sheep and clothing and slaves and any larger good without measuring precisely that there is no wholesale acquisition of a thing that can be counted.

##### Derived terms

* بَزَّاز (bazzāz, “garment salesman”)
* بِزَازَة (bizāza, “garment trade”)
* بَزَّ (bazza, “to strip off, to spoil, to remove by force”)
* اِبْتَزَّ (ibtazza, “to strip off, to spoil, to remove by force”)

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: bəz
* → Ottoman Turkish: بز (bez)
** Turkish: bez
** → Crimean Tatar: böz
*** → Chuvash: пӳс (püs)
** → Laz: ბეზი (bezi)
** → Russian: бязь (bjazʹ), безь (bezʹ)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бе̏з
    Latin script: bȅz
* → Old Italian: albagio
** →? Campidanese: orbaci (either via Old Italian or directly from Arabic)
*** → Italian: orbace
** →? Logudorese: arvatze (either via Old Italian or directly from Arabic)
** →? Nuorese: orbace (either via Old Italian or directly from Arabic)

### Etymology 3

Apparently denominal verb of بَزّ (bazz, “clothing”).

#### Verb

بَزَّ • (bazza) I (non-past يَبُزُّ (yabuzzu), verbal noun بَزّ (bazz))
* to strip off, to spoil, to remove by force
    مَن عَزَّ بَزَّ. ― man ʕazza bazza. ― He who overcomes takes the spoil.

##### Conjugation
#### Noun

بَزّ • (bazz) m
* verbal noun of بَزَّ (bazza) (form I)

##### Declension
### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “بز”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 80
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 42
* Freytag, Georg (1830) “بز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 116–117
* Freytag, Georg (1830) “بزيون”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 119
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “بز”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 120
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “بز”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 198
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “بز”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 70
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “بز”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 86

## Azerbaijani
### Pronoun

بز
* Alternative spelling of بیز

## Bakhtiari
### Noun

بز (boz)
* goat

## Karakhanid
### Alternative forms

* مِزْ (miz)

### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bi-ŕ (“we”). Cognate with Turkish biz (“we”), Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰕 (biz, “we”).

### Pronoun

بز (biz)
* we

#### Related terms

* مَنْ (men)
* مِزْ (-miz)

## Kermanic
### Alternative forms

* Khunsari: بزە (buzä)
* Soi: بوزە (būzä)

### Etymology

From Middle Median *buz, from Old Median *buzah, from Proto-Iranian *bujáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰuȷ́ás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ-.

### Pronunciation

* (Farizandi, Natanzi, Yarandi) IPA: /boz/
* (Gazi, Kafroni, Kese'i, Khunsari, Sedehi, Vonishuni, Zefre'i) IPA: /buz/
* (Mahallati) IPA: /biz/
* (Qohrudi) IPA: /bøz/
* (Yazdi) IPA: /bu̞z/

### Noun

بز (buz)
* goat

## Mazanderani
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *bujáh.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɛz/, /bɤz/

### Noun

بز (bez)
* goat

## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bi-ŕ (“we”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰕 (biz, “we”).

#### Pronoun

بِزْ (biz)
* we (first person plural pronoun)

##### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: biz
* Gagauz: biz
* Ottoman Turkish: بز (biz)
** Turkish: biz

### Etymology 2

From either Proto-Turkic *bẹńŕ (“swelling, scar, ulcer”), or *beŕ (“swelling, gland”).

#### Noun

بَزْ (bäz)
* (anatomy) gland

##### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: vəzi, (dialectal) bəz
* Gagauz: bez
* Ottoman Turkish: بز (bez)
** Turkish: bez

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic بَزّ (bazz), although probably under the influence of Byzantine Greek βύσσος (bússos) Cognates include Old Turkic 𐰋𐰕 (böz), Karakhanid بُوزْ (bȫz), Chagatai بوز (böz), Uyghur بۆز (böz), Turkmen biz and Chuvash пир (pir).

#### Noun

بَزْ (bez)
* cloth, fabric

##### Descendants

* Gagauz: bez
* Ottoman Turkish: بز
** Turkish: bez
** → Crimean Tatar: böz
*** → Chuvash: пӳс (püs)
** → Laz: ბეზი (bezi)
** → Russian: бязь (bjazʹ), безь (bezʹ)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бе̏з
    Latin script: bȅz

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *bi-ŕ (“we”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰕 (biz, “we”).

#### Pronoun

بز • (biz)
* we

##### Descendants

* Turkish: biz

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian بز (boz).

#### Noun

بز • (büz)
* goat
    Synonym: كچی (keçi)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic بَزّ (bazz), although probably under the influence of Byzantine Greek βύσσος (bússos). Cognates include Old Turkic 𐰋𐰕 (böz), Karakhanid بُوزْ (bȫz), Chagatai بوز (böz), Uyghur بۆز (böz), Turkmen biz and Chuvash пир (pir).

#### Noun

بز • (bez)
* cloth, vestment, fabric (a generic term, indistinctive of whether it is a fabric or a garment)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: bez
* → Crimean Tatar: böz
** → Chuvash: пӳс (püs)
* → Laz: ბეზი (bezi)
* → Russian: бязь (bjazʹ), безь (bezʹ)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бе̏з
    Latin script: bȅz

### Etymology 4

From either Proto-Turkic *bẹńŕ (“swelling, scar, ulcer”), or *ber (“swelling, gland”).

#### Noun

بز • (bez)
* (anatomy) gland

##### Descendants

* Turkish: bez

### References

* ↑ Vovin, Alexander (2018) “Fabrication of Turkic böz 'fabric' in Japan and Korea”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 71, number 3, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, pages 263–284.
* ↑ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “böːz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 389.
* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bẹńŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ber”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* بج (buj) (Classical Persian)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (AZ /⁠buz⁠/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (bwc /⁠buz⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *bujáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰuȷ́ás, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūǵ-o-s, from *bʰuǵ- (“buck, he-goat”). Cognate with English buck (“male goat”), Thracian *būzas.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [buz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bʊz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [bʊz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [bʊz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [buz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [boz]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [buz]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

بز • (boz) (plural بزها (boz-hâ))
* goat
** 11th century, Nāṣir Khusraw, “Qasīda 29”, in دیوان ناصرخسرو [Dīvān of Nāṣir Khusraw]‎:میش و بز و گاو و خر و پیل و شیر یکسره زین جانور اندر بلاستmēš u buz u gāw u xar u pīl u šēr yaksara z-īn jānwar andar balā-stSheep and goats, cattle and donkeys, elephants and lions Are all of them afflicted by this animal [the human].(Classical Persian transliteration)

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بز”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
* Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “بز”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press