# moz
## Abenaki
### Etymology

Cognate to Narragansett moos (“moose”) and Unami mus (“moose”), from Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moz/

### Noun

moz (animate, plural mozak)
* moose
    mozika ― there is an abundance of moose
** 1884, Joseph Laurent, New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, page 117:Kaswak nawa mozak k'nihlô?How many moose did you kill?

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* moziia
* Mozokas

#### Descendants

* → English: moose

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “moose”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ “moz”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

## Lower Sorbian
### Verb

moz impf
* Obsolete spelling of móc.

## Northern Kurdish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moːz/

### Etymology 1

Cognate with Central Kurdish مۆز (moz, “horsefly”), Zazaki moza (“horsefly”), Mazanderani ماز (māz, “bee”). From Proto-Iranian *wábžah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wábžʰas, from Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰsos, from *webʰ-. Asatrian initially derived from Armenian մոզ (moz), but later proposed the native Iranian etymology himself.

#### Alternative forms

* muz — Moks
* моз (moz) — Cyrillic spelling
* موز (muz) — Arabic spelling

#### Noun

moz f
| Northern Kurdish | moz |
| Central Kurdish | مۆز (moz) |
| Southern Kurdish | مووز (mûz) |
* hornet; wasp
* gadfly, horsefly, large fly that bites or annoys livestock
    moz kirin ― (of cattle) to fly into a rage as a result of horsefly biting
* bee
* bumblebee

##### Descendants

* → Armenian: մոզ (moz)

#### References

* 1 2 Asatrian, Garnik (2002) “Review of R. L. Tsabolov, Etymological Dictionary of Kurdish, vol. 1 (A-M), Moscow: “Academy of Sciences”, 2001, 686 pp.”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎, volume 6, number 1, page 269
* ↑ Асатрян, Г. (1987) “Язык заза и армянский (Предварительные заметки) [Zaza and Armenian (Preliminary Notes)]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Russian), number 1, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 165
* ↑ Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “muz”, in Курдско-русский словарь [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.2)‎ (in Russian), edited by Ž. S. Musaeljan and I. I. Cukerman from the author's manuscript written during his 1911–1912 Moks expedition, Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 125b
* ↑ Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “moz I”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pages 397–398
* 1 2 Bakajev, Č. X. (1957) “моз I”, in I. A. Orbeli, editor, Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 247a
* ↑ Adjarian, H. (1909–1911) “Recueil de mots kurdes en dialecte de Novo-Bayazet [Compendium of Kurdish Words in the Nor Bayazet Dialect]”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume XVI, page 361a
* 1 2 Kurdojev, K. K. (1960) “moz I”, in Курдско-русский словарь [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Государственное издательство иностранных и национальных словарей, page 549b
* ↑ Rhea, Samuel A. (1872–1880) “Brief Grammar and Vocabulary of the Kurdish Language of the Hakari District”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 10, page 147b

#### Further reading

* Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 682
* Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) “موز”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 408b

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* моз (moz) — Cyrillic spelling
* موز (muz) — Arabic spelling

#### Noun

moz f
* Alternative form of mozik (“calf”)

#### References

* ↑ Bakajev, Č. X. (1957) “моз II”, in I. A. Orbeli, editor, Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 247a
* ↑ Kurdojev, K. K. (1960) “moz II”, in Курдско-русский словарь [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Государственное издательство иностранных и национальных словарей, page 549b
* ↑ Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “moz II”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 398a

## Zhuang
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /mo˧˩/
* Tone numbers: mo$^2$
* Hyphenation: moz

### Etymology 1

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#### Noun

moz (Sawndip forms 𭷱 or 磨 or 𬌫 or 獏, 1957–1982 spelling moƨ)
* ox; cattle; cow
    Synonym: cwz

### Etymology 2

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#### Noun

moz (1957–1982 spelling moƨ)
* mid-lower abdomen; suprapubic area