# طوز
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *tōz; compare Old Turkic 𐱃𐰆𐰔 (toz), Chagatai توز (tuz), Kazakh тоз (toz), Kyrgyz тоз (toz), Turkmen toz and Uyghur توز (toz).

#### Alternative forms

* توز (tōz)

#### Noun

طُوزْ (dōz or doz)
* dry particles of soil, dirt, dust
* smoke

##### Derived terms

* طوز قوپارمق (doz qoparmaq, “to make dust scatter; to wreak havoc”)

##### Related terms

* طوزمق (dozmaq)

##### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: toz
* Gagauz: tooz, toz
* Ottoman Turkish: توز (toz)
** Turkish: toz
** → Armenian: թոզ (tʻoz)
** → Cypriot Greek: ττοζιν (ttozin)
*** → Cypriot Arabic: ttozz
** → Romanian: tos

#### Further reading

* Kanar, Mehmet (2018) Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 660
* “toz”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tūŕ, Bashkir тоҙ (toź), Chuvash тӑвар (tăvar), Kazakh тұз (tūz), Kyrgyz туз (tuz), Turkmen duz, Tuvan дус (dus), Uzbek tuz and Yakut туус (tuus).

#### Alternative forms

* دوز (duz)

#### Noun

طُوزْ (duz)
* salt
* (figurative) cuteness, beauty, likeability

##### Derived terms

* دوزلق (duzlaq)
* طوزلوجه (duzluca, “nice”)

##### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: duz
* Gagauz: tuz
* Ottoman Turkish: طوز (tuz)
** Turkish: tuz
** → Armenian: թուզ (tʻuz), տուզ (tuz)

#### Further reading

* Kanar, Mehmet (2018) Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 671

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “toz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* ↑ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “to:z”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 570-571
* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* توز (tuz)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طُوزْ (duz), from Proto-Turkic *tūŕ (“salt”); cognate with Azerbaijani duz, Bashkir тоҙ (toź), Chuvash тӑвар (tăvar), Kazakh тұз (tūz), Kyrgyz туз (tuz), Turkmen duz, Tuvan дус (dus), Uzbek tuz and Yakut туус (tuus).

### Noun

طوز • (tuz)
* salt, a common substance chemically consisting of sodium chloride
    Synonyms: ملح (milh), نمك (nemek)
* (chemistry) salt in the chemical sense, -ate, salt of an acid or the acid itself

#### Derived terms

* طوز روحی (tuz ruhu, “hydrochloric acid”)
* طوزجی (tuzcu, “seller of salt”)
* طوزلاق (tuzlak, “land impregnated with salt”)
* طوزلامه (tuzlama, “salted”)
* طوزلانمق (tuzlanmak, “to be salted”)
* طوزلق (tuzluk, “salt-box”)
* طوزله (tuzla, “saltern”)
* طوزلو (tuzlu, “salty”)
* قیا طوزی (kaya tuzu, “rock salt”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: tuz
* → Armenian: թուզ (tʻuz), տուզ (tuz)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tuz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4929
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “طوز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 317a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “طوز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 817a
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sal”, 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 1502
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “طوز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3144
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tuz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1255