# توز
## Chagatai
### Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *tōz.

### Noun

توز (tuz) (uncountable)
* salt

## Khalaj
### Noun

توُز (tûz, tûuz) (definite accusative توُزوُ, plural توُزلار)
* Arabic spelling of tûz, tûuz (“salt”)

#### Declension
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *töŕ

#### Noun

توز • (töz)
* essence
* nature

##### Related terms

* دوریمك (döremäk, “to emerge, to be created”)

##### Descendants

* → Turkish: töz (semi-learned)

#### Further reading

* Kanar, Mehmet (2018) Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 661
* “töz”, 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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

توز • (tōz or toz)
* Alternative form of طوز (dōz)

#### Further reading

* “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

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “töz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طُوزْ (dōz), from Proto-Common Turkic *tōz (“dust, powder”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱃𐰆𐰔 (toz), Azerbaijani toz, Chagatai توز (tuz), Kazakh тоз (toz), Kyrgyz тоз (toz), Turkmen toz and Uyghur توز (toz).

#### Noun

توز • (toz) (definite accusative توزی (tozu), plural توزلر (tozlar))
* dust, powder, fine, dry particles of solid matter that come from various sources such as soil and pollution
    Synonyms: تراب (türâb), خاك (hâk), غبار (gubar)

##### Derived terms

* آلتون توزی (altun tozu, “gold powder”)
* آیاق توزی (ayak tozu, “the dust on one's feet”)
* بچقی توزی (bıçkı tozu, “sawdust”)
* توز ایتمك (toz etmek, “to reduce to dust”)
* توز اینجو (toz inci, “seed pearl”)
* توز سیلكمك (toz silkmek, “to remove dust”)
* توز قوندرمامق (toz kondurmamak, “to take the utmost care of a thing”)
* توز قوپارمق (toz koparmak, “to raise dust”)
* توز قوپمق (toz kopmak, “to rise (of dust)”)
* توزلامق (tozlamak, “to cover with dust”)
* توزلق (tozluk, “gaiter”)
* توزلو (tozlu, “dusty”)
* توزی طوپراغه قاتمق (tozu toprağa katmak, “to hurry”, literally “to add dust to the earth”)
* دمیر توزی (demir tozu, “iron filings”)
* دومان توزی (duman tozu, “impalpable powder”)
* صمان توزی (saman tozu, “cut straw”)
* قویومجی توزی (kuyumcu tozu, “borax”)

##### Related terms

* توزاق (tozak, “dust storm”)
* توزان (tozan, “dusty”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: toz
* → Armenian: թոզ (tʻoz)
* → Cypriot Greek: ττοζιν (ttozin)
** → Cypriot Arabic: ttozz
* → Romanian: tos

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “توز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 499
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “toz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4883
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “توز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 170a
* Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “توز”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 413
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pulvis”, 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 1407
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “توز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1461
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “toz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “توز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 608

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

توز • (tuz) (definite accusative توزی (tuzu), plural توزلر (tuzlar))
* Alternative spelling of طوز (tuz, “salt”)

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “توز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 499
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “توز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 170a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 413
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “توز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1461

## Uyghur
### Etymology

From Persian طاووس (tâvus), from Arabic طَاوُوس (ṭāwūs).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toz/

### Noun

توز • (toz) (plural توزلار (tozlar))
* peacock

### Further reading

* Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN