نماز
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Etymology
From Classical Persian نماز (namāz).
Noun
نماز (namaz)
Derived terms
- جاىنماز (jāynamāz, “prayer mat”)
- نماز اوتاماک (namāz ötämäk, “to pray”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Schluessel, Eric (2018) “نماز”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources, Michigan Publishing, page 198
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian نماز (namāz, “prayer”), from Middle Persian 𐬥𐬀𐬨𐬁𐬰 (namāz), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *námah.
Noun
نماز • (namâz) (definite accusative نمازی (namâzı), plural نمازلر (namâzlar))
- prayer, orison, precation, an act of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity
- Synonym: دعا (duʼâ)
- (Islam) salat, namaz, the obligatory prayer that Muslims are called to perform five times a day
- Synonym: صلات (salat)
Derived terms
- نماز آیلری (namâz ayları, “the months of special divine services for women”)
- نماز بزی (namâz bezi, “cloth spread out on which to perform worship”)
- نماز بوزان (namâz bozan, “anything that invalidates the divine worship”)
- نماز قیلمق (namâz kılmak, “to perform the salat”)
- نمازگاه (namâzgâh, “an open-air oratory”)
- نمازگذار (namâzgüzâr, “one who performs the salat”)
- نمازی قیلنمق (namâzı kılınmak, “to perform a funeral prayer”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “namaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3486
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “namâz”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 962
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نماز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1287
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Preces”, 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 1356
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نماز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5255
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “namaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نماز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2104
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭥𐭮𐭢𐭣𐭤 (OSGDE /namāz/, “reverence, prostration, prayer”) / 𐬥𐬀𐬨𐬁𐬰 (namāz), from Proto-Iranian *námah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *námas (“to bow, prostrate”), from Proto-Indo-European *némos (“(place of) sacrifice, worship”). Compare Sanskrit नमस् (namas), Ancient Greek νέμος (némos), Latin nemus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [na.ˈmɑːz]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [næ.mɒ́ːz]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [nä.mɔ́z]
Noun
نماز • (namâz) (plural نمازها (namâz-hâ))
- regular, prescribed prayer; (Islam) salat
- نماز جمعه ― namâz-e jom'e ― Friday prayers
Usage notes
- Prayers that are not fixed by religious law are called دعا (do'â).
Related terms
- جای نماز (jây namâz, “prayer mat”)
- نماز بردن (namâz bordan)
- نماز خواندن (namâz xândan)
- نماز کردن (namâz kardan)
- نماز گذاشتن (namâz gozâštan)
Descendants
- → Assamese: নামাজ (namaz)
- → Azerbaijani: namaz
- → Bashkir: намаҙ (namaź)
- → Bengali: নামাজ (namaz)
- → Mandarin: 乃瑪子 / 乃玛子 (nǎimǎzi)
- → Georgian: ნამაზი (namazi)
- → Gujarati: નમાજ (namāj), નમાઝ (namājh)
- → Hindustani:
- → Judeo-Tat: нумаз (numaz), нимаз (nimaz) ("synagogue")
- → Kazakh: намаз (namaz)
- → Middle Armenian: նամազ (namaz)
- Armenian: նամազ (namaz)
- → Old Gujarati: निमाज (nimāja)
- → Ottoman Turkish: نماز (namâz)
- → Punjabi: نماز (namāz)
- → Sindhi: نماز (namāz)
- → Tatar: намаз (namaz)
- → Thai: ละหมาด (lá-màat), นมาซ
- → Uyghur: ناماز (namaz)
- → Uzbek: namoz
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “namāz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
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