# كز
## Chagatai
### Etymology

Compare Tofa кес (“arrow notch”), Tuvan кес (kes, “arrow notch”)

### Noun

كز (kez)
* arrow, or a particular slim type thereof

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *keŕ (“nock, notch of an arrow”); cognate with Azerbaijani gəz, Bashkir: гиз (giz), Kazakh кез (kez), Tatar [script needed] (kirtü) and Tuvan кес (kes).

#### Noun

گز • (gez)
* nock, the notch at the rearmost end of an arrow that fits on the bowstring
    Synonym: سوفار (sufar)
* plummet, plumb line, a cord with a weight attached, used to produce a vertical line
    Synonyms: اسقندیل (iskandil), سونده (sonda), شاقول (şakul), مطمار (mıtmar)

##### Derived terms

* گز اورمق (gez urmak, “to put the plummet to”)
* گزلتمك (gezletmek, “to make or let be notched”)
* گزلمك (gezlemek, “to notch an arrow”)
* گزلو (gezli, “notched, provided with nocks”)

##### Related terms

* كرتمك (kertmek, “to notch”)

##### Descendants

* Gagauz: keez
* Turkish: gez

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gez2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1697
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gez”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1543

### Etymology 2

Of Proto-Turkic origin. Cognate with Chagatai گز (gez) and Kazakh кез (kez).

#### Noun

گز • (gez)
* time, an instance or repetition of something happening
    Synonyms: دفعه (defʾa), كره (kerre), نوبت (nevbet, nöbet)

##### Derived terms

* بوگز (bugez, “this time”)
* هرگز (hergez, “always”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: kez

#### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kez1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2587
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 389a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vicis”, 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 1753
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3938
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gez”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1543

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian ghis, itself from Dutch giek.

#### Alternative forms

* گیز (giz)

#### Noun

گز • (giz)
* a main boom, a diagonal beam on which a sail is attached, gaff
    Synonym: پیك (pik)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: giz

### Etymology 4

From Persian گز (gaz).

#### Noun

گز • (gez)
* tamarisk (Tamarix spp.)
    Synonyms: آج (ac), ایلغین (ılğın)
* manna ash (Fraxinus ornus)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: gez
* → Crimean Tatar: gez

### References

* Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, page 250 Nr. 329
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1024a
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 3938–3939