# تمیز
## Egyptian Arabic
### Verb

تميّز • (tamayyiz) V (non-past يتميّز (yitmayyiz))
* to be distinguished, to be characterised
    مناخ مصر بيتميز بالتنوع الكبير. ― Egypt's climate is characterised by its diversity.

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian تمیز (tamiz), from Arabic تَمْيِيز (tamyīz).

### Adjective

تمیز • (temiz)
* pure, clean, free of flaws or imperfections
    Synonyms: آری (arı), پاك (pak), خالص (halis), صفی (safi)
* honest, honorable, respectable, estimable

#### Derived terms

* تمیزلتمك (temizletmek, “to make or let be cleaned”)
* تمیزلك (temizlik, “cleanness; purity”)
* تمیزلمك (temizlemek, “to clean, clear away”)
* تمیزلنمك (temizlenmek, “to become clean”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: temiz
* → Serbo-Croatian: tèmiz / тѐмиз

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “temiz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4722
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تمیز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 404
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Purus”, 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 1410
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تمیز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1404
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “temiz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تمیز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 595

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَمْيِيز (tamyīz).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ta.ˈmiːz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰä.míːz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰä.míːz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t̪ʰä.míːz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t̪ʰä.míz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰæ.míːz]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰä.míz]

### Adjective

تمیز • (tamiz) (comparative تمیزتَر (tamiz-tar), superlative تمیزتَرین (tamiz-tarin))
* clean, neat, tidy
    Antonym: کثیف (kasif)
* properly done

#### Inflection

Enclitic-attached forms of تمیز (tamiz) :

#### Derived terms

* تمیز کردن (tamiz kardan, “to clean”)
* تمیزی (tamizi)

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: তমিজ (tômiz)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: तमीज़ (tamīz)
    Urdu: تمیز (tamīz)
* → Punjabi:
** Gurmukhi script: ਤਮੀਜ਼ (tamīz)
** Shahmukhi script: تمیز (tamīz)

### Noun

تمیز • (tamiz)
* discernment; discrimination between things

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تمیز (tamīz), itself from Arabic تَمْيِيز (tamyīz).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /t̪ə.miːz/
* Rhymes: -iːz

### Noun

تَمِیز • (tamīz) f (Hindi spelling तमीज़)
* manners, etiquette
* respect

#### Derived terms

* بَدتَمِیز (bad tamīz, “rude; ill-mannered”)
* بَدتَمِیزی (bad tamīzī, “disrespect”)

### References

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