az

English Online Dictionary. What means az‎? What does az mean?

Translingual

Symbol

az

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Azerbaijani.

English

Etymology 1

Adverb

az (not comparable)

1. Eye dialect spelling of as.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

az (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of az. (“azure”).

Etymology 3

From Old Church Slavonic азъ (azŭ).

Noun

az (uncountable)

1. Name of the letter a in Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.

Translations

Further reading

• Early Cyrillic alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 'za, ZA, za

Azerbaijani

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *āŕ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɑz]

Adjective

az

1. few, little

Adverb

az

1. a bit, a little

Derived terms

• biraz
• az qala (“almost”)

Etymology 2

Likely from ay qız.

Interjection

az

2. An informal way of addressing a girl.

   Az, nə qayırırsan?! ― Hey, what are you doing?!

See also

• ədə!

Breton

Pronoun

az

1. you (sg acc.)

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰕 (āz, “few, little, a bit, a little”).

Adjective

az

1. few, little

Synonyms

• teran, azğana

Gagauz

Alternative forms

• aaz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آزْ (āz), from Proto-Turkic *āŕ. Compare Azerbaijani az, Turkish az, Crimean Tatar az.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑz/

Adjective

az (comparative taa az, superlative en az)

1. alternative form of aaz

References

• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 23
• Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 13

Hungarian

Etymology

The pronoun and determiner senses probably derive from an earlier a + a pronoun-forming suffix -z, where the former element originates from Proto-Uralic *o or *u (“that, that other”). Its cognates include Moksha омба (omba, “other”), омбоце (omboce, “second”), Eastern Mari умбал (umbal, “far, distant”), Udmurt отын (otyn, “there”) and Komi-Zyrian ата (ata, “here”), асы (asy, “look here”).

The definite article was created by means of conversion, originally only in the form az, later shortened to a’ before consonants until the early 20th century, when the spelling a was accepted.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒz]
• Rhymes: -ɒz

Article

az

2. the (for words beginning with a vowel) [from 13th–14th c.]

   az iskola ― the school

Derived terms

• a (for words beginning with a consonant)

Pronoun

az

2. that [from late 12th c.]

   Coordinate terms: ez, emez, amaz

   Az ott egy ház. ― That is a house over there.

   Az tetszik nekem a legjobban. ― That is what I like the most. (literally, “That appeals to me the most.”)

Declension

The possessive forms of this pronoun are not in use. If necessary, the corresponding possessive forms of olyan (“such [a thing]”) can be used.

Derived terms

See also

Determiner

az

2. (used before a noun phrase with a definite article, declined in accordance with the noun phrase it applies to) that

   Coordinate terms: ez, emez, amaz

   Az a ház nagyon szép. ― That house is very beautiful.

   Azzal a dobozzal nem tudok mit kezdeni. ― I cannot do anything with that box.

   Azokban a házakban venezuelaiak laknak. ― In those houses, Venezuelan people are living.

4. (rare, archaic, except in vowel-initial fixed phrases, with zero article) that

   Synonym: (before words starting with a consonant; rare in this function) a

   Coordinate terms: e, ez, eme, emez, ama, amaz, ezen, azon

   az ügyben (equivalent to abban az ügyben, but with an emphatic az) ― in that matter

   az évben (equivalent to abban az évben, but with an emphatic az) ― in that year

   az az évi díjak (with an emphatic second az) ― the fees of that year

Usage notes

Because az (in the first, common usage) takes a definite article (the) and van (“is, to be”) is omitted in "who"/"what" statements, some terms are ambiguous. “Az a ház” can mean both “that house” as a phrase and “That is the house” as a whole sentence. The same ambiguity may arise with ez.

Declension

See also

References

Further reading

• az in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
• (pronoun or determiner): az in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (definite article, referring to its alternative form “a”): az in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (the referred entry on the definite article): (3): a in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Latvian

Preposition

az (with genitive)

1. (dialectal) behind; alternative form of aiz

Mapudungun

Noun

az (Raguileo spelling)

1. countenance; face; side
2. form; colour; aspect
3. personality; habit
4. kinship

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle High German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈaːs/

Verb

āȥ

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of ëȥȥen

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈas/

Verb

aȥ

1. alternative form of āȥ

Old High German

Verb

āȥ

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of ëȥȥan

Portuguese

Noun

az m (plural azes)

1. obsolete spelling of ás

Romanian

Adverb

az

1. obsolete form of azi

References

• az in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Scots

Etymology

Distortion of whase.

Determiner

az (Cromarty)

1. whose

Pronoun

az (Cromarty)

1. whose

References

• Am Baile (2009) The Cromarty Fisherfolk Dialect‎^[1], Highland Council, page 4

Sumerian

Romanization

az

1. romanization of 𒊍 (az)

Talysh

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *ajám. Cognate with Sanskrit अहम् (aham).

Pronoun

az (ergative mı)

1. I

References

• Pirejko, L. A. (1976) “az”, in Talyšsko-russkij slovarʹ [Talysh–Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 20

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɑz]
• Rhymes: -ɑz

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish آز (az, “little”), from Proto-Turkic *āŕ (“few, a little”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰕 (az /⁠āz⁠/, “few, little, a bit, a little”), Karakhanid اازْ (āz, “few, scanty”).

Determiner

az (comparative daha az, superlative en az)

1. few, little

Declension

Related terms

• azlık
• azıcık
• azar azar
• azalmak
• biraz

Adverb

az

1. a bit, a little

Antonyms

• çok

Etymology 2

Verb

az

1. second-person singular imperative of azmak

Yola

Alternative forms

• as

Etymology

From Middle English as, als(a), alswa, from Old English eallswā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /az/

Conjunction

az

1. as

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114