# عجز
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Verb 1: IPA: /ʕa.d͡ʒa.za/, /ʕa.d͡ʒi.za/
* Noun: IPA: /ʕad͡ʒz/
* Verb 2: IPA: /ʕa.d͡ʒa.za/

#### Verb

عَجَزَ • (ʕajaza) I (non-past يَعْجِزُ (yaʕjizu), verbal noun عَجْز (ʕajz) or عَجَزَان (ʕajazān)) عَجِزَ • (ʕajiza) I (non-past يَعْجَزُ (yaʕjazu), verbal noun عَجَز (ʕajaz))
* (archaic) to be or become behindhand, to lag
* (figurative) to fall short, to be incapable of, cannot [with عَن (ʕan)]
    Antonyms: اِسْتَطَاعَ (istaṭāʕa), قَدَرَ (qadara)
* (figurative) to be weak

##### Conjugation
#### Noun

عَجْز • (ʕajz) m
* verbal noun of عَجِزَ (ʕajiza)
* weakness

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: əcz
* → Chagatai: عجز
** Uzbek: ajz
* → Ottoman Turkish: عجز ('acz)
** Turkish: aciz
* → Persian: عجز ('ajz)
* → Swahili: ajizi

#### Verb

عَجَزَ • (ʕajaza) I (non-past يَعْجِزُ (yaʕjizu), verbal noun عَجْز (ʕajz) or عُجُوز (ʕujūz))
* to age

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʕad͡ʒ.d͡ʒa.za/

#### Verb

عَجَّزَ • (ʕajjaza) II (non-past يُعَجِّزُ (yuʕajjizu), verbal noun تَعْجِيز (taʕjīz)) (transitive)
* to age
* to withhold, to divert; to weaken, to make someone incapable of
* to ascribe inability to someone
* to utter the ending of (the verse)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

عَجُز or عَجْز • (ʕajuz or ʕajz) m (plural أَعْجَاز (ʔaʕjāz))
* croup, hinder parts, posteriors, the body part between the two hips of man or beast
** 577 AH / 1181–82 CE, ابن هشام اللخمي [Ibn Hišām al-Laḵmiyy], edited by José Pérez Lázaro, الْمَدْخَلُ إِلَى تَقْوِيمِ اللِسَانِ وَتَعْلِيمِ الْبَيَانِ (al-madḵalu ʔilā taqwīmi l-lisāni wataʕlīmi l-bayāni) [Introducción a la corrección del lenguaje y la enseñanza de la elocuencia] (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas; 6), volume II, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 1990, →ISBN, Nr. 701, page 356:ويقولون لما يجعل على عَجُز الفَرَس متّصلا بالسّرج شِلَال. والصّواب شَلِيلٌ.They say for what is applied upon the croup of a horse and connected with the saddle šilāl. But the correct is šalīl.
* trunk of a palm-tree
* the latter or last foot or word or hemistich of a verse, ending

##### Declension
### Etymology 4
#### Noun

عُجُز • (ʕujuz) f pl
* plural of عَجُوز (ʕajūz)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Arabic عَجْز (ʕajz).

### Noun

عجز • ('acz)
* weakness
* helplessness, impotence

#### Descendants

* Turkish: acz, aciz

### References

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عجز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 839
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “acz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَجْز (ʕajz).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔad͡ʒz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäd͡ʒz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔäd͡ʒz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔäd͡ʒz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔäd͡ʒz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔæd͡ʒz]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔäd͡ʒz]

### Noun

عجز • (ajz)
* weakness, debility, inability, incapacity
    Synonym: ناتوانی (nâtavâni)
* entreaty, pleading
    Synonym: التماس (eltemâs)

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عجز”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim