ازا

Karakhanid

Etymology

Gerundive form of اُوزْماقْ (ōzmāq, to surpass, outstrip). Alternatively, it has also been read as uzā and thus has been connected with Proto-Turkic *uŕa- (to become long), however the word is written with an o- in languages it survives in.

Adjective

اُزا (ozā)

  1. past
    اُزاقیٖ بِلْكا اَنْجا اَيمِشْOzākï bilge anča aymïš...The wise of the past said like that...

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “oza:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 280

Further reading

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