مزه

See also: مزہ, مرة, مژه, and مزة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (maze).

Noun

مزه • (meze)

pleasant taste, flavour, smack or relish
Synonyms: چاشنی (çeşni), ذوق (zevk), طات (tat), لذت (lezzet), نمك (nemek)
any good-flavoured thing eaten to increase the appetite
(figuratively) pleasantry, jocose saying or remark

Descendants

Turkish: meze
→ Arabic: مَزَّة (mazza)
→ Armenian: մեզե (meze), մա̈զա̈ (mäzä)
→ Albanian: meze
→ Aromanian: mize
→ Bulgarian: мезе́ (mezé)
→ Greek: μεζές (mezés)
- → English: meze
→ Macedonian: мезе (meze)
→ Romanian: meze
→ Serbo-Croatian: mèze / мѐзе

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meze1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3191
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مزه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1156
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gustus”, 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 677
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مزه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4602
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meze”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مزه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1826

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (myck', m(y)ck' /⁠mizag⁠/, “taste”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ma.za], [maz.za]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.zä], [mäz.zä]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mä.zä], [mäz.zä]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mä.zä], [mäz.zä]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæ.ze], [mæz.ze]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mä.zä], [mäz.zä]

Readings
Classical reading^?	maza, mazza
Dari reading^?	maza, mazza
Iranian reading^?	maza, mazze
Tajik reading^?	maza, mazza

Noun


Iranian Persian	مزه
Dari	مزه
Tajik	маза, мазза

مزه • (maze) (plural مزه‌ها (maze-hâ))

taste, flavour, smack, relish
maze-ye in sib torš ast.
This apple tastes sour.
(literally, “The flavor of this apple is sour”)
joy, pleasure
a snack; a morsel taken after drinking liquor.

Synonyms

طعم (ta'm)
خوا (xovâ)
چشیدن (čašidan)

Derived terms

خوش‌مزه (xoš-maze)
بدمزه (bad-maze)
مزه‌دار (maze-dâr)
بی‌مزه (bê-maze)
بامزه (bâ-maze)
مزه دادن (maze dâdan)
مزه کردن (maze kardan)
مزه دهن (maze-ye dahan)

Descendants

→ Assamese: মজা (moza)
→ Azerbaijani: məzə
→ Bengali: মজা (moja)
→ Gujarati: મજા (majā)
→ Hindustani:
- Hindi: मज़ा (mazā)
- Urdu: مزہ (maza)
→ Kazakh: маза (maza)
→ Marathi: मजा (majā)
→ Middle Armenian: մազայ (mazay)
→ Middle Georgian: მაზა (maza)
→ Ottoman Turkish: مزه (meze)
- Turkish: meze
- → Arabic: مَزَّة (mazza)
- → Albanian: meze
- → Aromanian: mize
- → Bulgarian: мезе́ (mezé)
- → Greek: μεζές (mezés)
  - → English: meze
- → Macedonian: мезе (meze)
- → Romanian: meze
- → Serbo-Croatian: mèze / мѐзе
→ Punjabi: ਮਜਾ (majā)

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “مزه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “mizag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

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