# جوز
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Compare جَازَ (jāza, “to pass through”).

#### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

#### Verb

جَوَّزَ • (jawwaza) II (non-past يُجَوِّزُ (yujawwizu), verbal noun تَجْوِيز (tajwīz))
* to allow, permit
* to cause to travel over, pass through, perform
* to carry through one's views
* to water
* to give in marriage, to marry

##### Conjugation
#### Noun

جَوْز • (jawz) m (plural أَجْوَاز (ʔajwāz))
* verbal noun of جَازَ (jāza) (form I)
* middle (of a desert, a camel, the night, etc.)
* main part

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Middle Persian 𐭢𐭥𐭦 (gōz, “walnut”) (Persian گوز (gowz)).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒawz/

#### Noun

جَوْز • (jawz) m (collective, singulative جَوْزَة f (jawza), plural جَوْزَات (jawzāt))
* walnut (the fruit of any Juglans tree; walnut trees are usually شَجَر الْجَوْز (šajar al-jawz); the same tendency in the derived terms)

##### Derived terms

* جَوْز أَرْقَم (jawz ʔarqam, “kippernut, both the harvest of Bunium bulbocastanum and of Conopodium majus”)
* جَوْز أَرْمَد (jawz ʔarmad, “white walnut, fruit of Juglans cinerea”)
* جَوْز الأُتْرُجّ (jawz al-ʔutrujj, “mafura, fruit of Trichilia emetica”)
* جَوْز الدَفْع (jawz ad-dafʕ, “mafura, fruit of Trichilia emetica”)
* جَوْز الرُقَع (jawz ar-ruqaʕ, “mafura, fruit of Trichilia emetica”)
* جَوْز الزِنْج (jawz az-zinj, “cola nut, fruit of Cola acuminata”)
* جَوْز الشَرْق (jawz aš-šarq), جَوْز الشَرْك (jawz aš-šark), جَوْز الشِرْك (jawz aš-širk), جَوْز السُودَان (jawz as-sūdān), جَوْز الْحَبَشَة (jawz al-ḥabaša, “Guinea pepper, i.e. either grains of paradise (spice from Aframomum melegueta) or grains of Selim (spice from Xylopia aethiopica)”)
* جَوْز الطِّيب (jawz aṭ-ṭīb), جَوْز بُوَا (jawz buwā, “nutmeg, seed of Myristica fragrans”)
* جَوْز الْبَرَازِيل (jawz al-barāzīl, “brazil nut, fruit and tree Bertholletia excelsa”)
* جَوْز الْبَرّ (jawz al-barr), جَوْز الأَنْهَار (jawz al-ʔanhār), جَوْز الْقَطَا (jawz al-qaṭā, “harvest of Sedum cepaea”)
* جَوْز الْحَلْق (jawz al-ḥalq, “the Adam's apple”)
* جَوْز الْقَيْء (jawz al-qayʔ, “mafura, fruit of Trichilia emetica; nux vomica, fruit of Strychnos nux-vomica”)
* جَوْز الْمَرْج (jawz al-marj, “bladder cherry (Alkekengi officinarum, syn. Physalis alkekengi)”)
* جَوْز الْهِنْد (jawz al-hind, “coconut, fruit of Cocos nucifera”)
* جَوْز جَنْدَم (jawz jandam, “Lecanora esculenta; mangosteen, fruit of the tree Garcinia mangostana”)
* جَوْز مَاثِل (jawz māṯil), جَوْز مَاثَا (jawz māṯā), جَوْزَة صَحْرَاوِيَّة (jawza ṣaḥrāwiyya), جَوْز زُوت (jawz zūt, “metel nut, fruit of Datura metel”)
* جَوْز مَازَج (jawz māzaj, see كَزْمَازَج (kazmāzaj, “tamarisk fruits”))
* كَسَّارَة جَوْز (kassārat jawz, “nutcracker”)

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: cövz, cövüz, cəviz
* → Baluchi: جئوز (jawz)
* → Ottoman Turkish: جوز (cevz)
** Turkish: ceviz
* → Persian: جوز (jowz)

### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “جوز”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 233
* Hehn, Victor with Schrader, Otto (1911) Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere in ihrem Übergang aus Asien nach Griechenland und Italien sowie in das übrige Europa‎ (in German), 8th edition, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, pages 393–404
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “جوز”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 485
* Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 29–59
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “جوز”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 254
* Wagner, Max (1966) Die lexikalischen und grammatikalischen Aramaismen im alttestamentlichen Hebräisch (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 96) (in German), Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, →ISBN, page 18

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic زَوْج (zawj) with metathesis.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɡoːz]

#### Noun

جوز • (gōz) m
* (chiefly construct) husband
    Synonym: عريس (ʕarīs, “groom; husband”)

### Etymology 2

From Arabic زَوَّج (zawwaj) with metathesis.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡæwːɪz]

#### Verb

جوّز • (gawwiz) II (verbal noun جواز (gawāz), active participle مجوّز (migawwiz), passive participle متجوّز (mitgawwiz))
* (ditransitive) to marry off
    أبويا عايز يجوّزني ― abūya ʕāyiz yigawwizni ― My dad's looking to marry me off

##### Conjugation

$^1$ The future tense can be prefixed with either هـ (ha-) or حـ (ḥa-) depending on the speaker.

##### Derived terms

* اتجوّز (itgawwiz, “to marry”)

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic جَوْز (jawz).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒoːz/, [d͡ʒo̞ːz], [ʒo̞ːz]

#### Noun

جوز • (jōz) m (collective, singulative جوزة f (jōza), paucal جوزات (jōzāt))
* walnut

##### Derived terms

* جوزية (jōziyya, “a dessert that resembles a walnut”)

### Etymology 2

From Arabic زَوْج (zawj), with metathesis.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒoːz/, [d͡ʒo̞ːz], [ʒo̞ːz]

#### Noun

جوز • (jōz) m (plural أجواز (ʔajwāz))
* (rare) husband
    Synonym: زوج (zōj)

### Etymology 3

From Arabic زَوَّجَ (zawwaja), with metathesis.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒaw.waz/, [d͡ʒaw.waz], [ʒaw.waz]

#### Verb

جَوَّز • (jawwaz) II (non-past يِجَوِّز (yijawwiz))
* (rare) (ditransitive) to marry off, to give in marriage
    Synonym: زَوَّج (zawwaj)

##### Conjugation
## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَوْز (jawz), from Middle Persian 𐭢𐭥𐭦 (gōz, “walnut”). Doublet of گوز. See Old Armenian ընկոյզ (ənkoyz) for etymology.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [d͡ʒawz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒäwz]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒäwz]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d͡ʒäwz]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d͡ʒäwz]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒowz]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d͡ʒäwz]

### Noun

جوز • (jowz) (plural جوزها (jowz-hâ))
* (archaic) walnut
    Synonyms: (Dari) چارمغز (čârmağz), (Iranian Persian) گردو (gerdu), گوز (gowz), گردکان (gerdekân)

#### Inflection

$^△$ Colloquial.
$^△$ Colloquial.
$^△$ Colloquial.

#### Derived terms

* جوز هندی (jowz-e hendi)
* جوزجان (jowzjân)

#### Descendants

* → Gujarati: જૌઝ (jaujh)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒoːz/, [ʒoːz]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Arabic زَوْج (zawj) with metathesis.

#### Noun

جوز • (jōz) m (plural جواز (jwāz))
* pair
* husband
    Synonym: زوج (zōj)

##### See also

* مرة (mara, “wife”)

### Etymology 2

From Arabic جَوْز (jawz).

#### Noun

جوز • (jōz) m (collective, singulative جوزة f (jōze), plural جوزات (jōzāt))
* nuts

##### Derived terms

* جوز هند (jōz hind, “coconuts”)
* جوزة الطيب (jōzt iṭ-ṭīb, “nutmeg”)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جوز (jawz), from Arabic جَوْز (jawz), itself from Middle Persian 𐭢𐭥𐭦 (gōz, “walnut”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d͡ʒɔːz/

### Noun

جَوز • (jauz) m (Hindi spelling जौज़)
* walnut, nutmeg
    Synonym: اخروٹ

### References

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