لوز

See also: لور

Arabic

لَوْز

Etymology

From Aramaic לוּזָא / ܠܽܘܙܳܐ (lūzā).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lawz/

Noun

لَوْز • (lawz) m (collective, singulative لَوْزَة f (lawza))

  1. almond
  2. almond tree
  3. tonsil
  4. (singulative only) amygdala

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: lewż
  • Moroccan Arabic: لوز (lawz, lūz)
  • South Levantine Arabic: لوز (lōz)
  • Amharic: ለውዝ (läwz)
  • Middle Armenian: լավզ (lavz)
  • Ottoman Turkish: لوز (levz)
  • Persian: لوز (lowz)
  • Swahili: lozi

References

  • lwz”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Corriente, Federico (2005) “لوز”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 1073
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 145
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “لوز”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 135
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 153–155
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 374
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لوز”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1173–1174

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ل و ز
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic لَوْز (lawz).

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /loːz/, [lo̞ːz]

Noun

لوز • (lōz) m (collective, singulative لوزة f (lōza), paucal لوزات (lōzāt))

  1. almond

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /luwaz/

Noun

لوز • (luwaz) m (collective, singulative لوزة f (lōza))

  1. tonsils

Moroccan Arabic

Root
ل و ز
1 term

Etymology 1

From Arabic لَوْز (lawz).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lawz/, /luːz/
  • (file)

Noun

لوز • (lawz, lūz) m (collective, singulative لوزة f (lawza, lūz), paucal لوزات (lawzāt, lūzāt))

  1. almonds
    Synonym: نوى (nwa)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /law.waz/

Verb

لوز • (lawwaz) II (non-past يلوز (ylawwaz), verbal noun تلواز (talwāz), active participle ملوز (mlawwaz))

  1. to belly dance
Conjugation
    Conjugation of لوز
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m لوّزت (lawwazt) لوّزتي (lawwazti) لوّز (lawwaz) لوّزنا (lawwazna) لوّزتوا (lawwaztu) لوّزوا (lawwzu)
f لوّزت (lawwzāt)
non-past m نلوّز (nlawwaz) تلوّز (tlawwaz) يلوّز (ylawwaz) نلوّزوا (nlawwzu) تلوّزوا (tlawwzu) يلوّزوا (ylawwzu)
f تلوّزي (tlawwzi) تلوّز (tlawwaz)
imperative m لوّز (lawwaz) لوّزوا (lawwzu)
f لوّزي (lawwzi)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَوْز (lawz, almond).

Noun

لوز • (levz)

  1. almond, the nut produced by the small tree Prunus amygdalus
    Synonym: بادم (badem)

Derived terms

  • لوز هندی (levz hindi, cocoa)
  • لوزی (levzî, pertaining to almonds)
  • لوزینه (levzine, sweetmeat of pounded almonds)

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَوْز (lawz).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? lawz
Dari reading? lawz
Iranian reading? lowz
Tajik reading? lavz

Noun

Dari لوز
Iranian Persian
Tajik лавз

لوز • (lowz)

  1. almond
  2. a type of marzipan

References

  1. Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لوز”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1131

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic لَوْز (lawz).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /loːz/, [loːz]
  • (file)

Noun

لوز • (lōz) m (collective, singulative لوزة f (lōze))

  1. (uncountable) almond
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