جنازه

Etymology

Borrowed either directly from Arabic جَنَازَة (janāza, “funeral; bier”) or through Persian جنازه (janâze, jenâze), both ultimately from a Ge'ez word related to Ge'ez ገነዘ (gänäzä, “to wrap, to prepare a body for funeral”).

Noun

جنازه • (cenâze or cinâze) (definite accusative جنازه‌یی (cenâzeyi), plural جنائز (cenâʼiz) or جنازه‌لر (cenâzeler))

1. funeral, a ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, with the attendant observances
2. bier, a litter, stand, or frame on which a corpse is placed to lie in state or to be carried to the grave
3. (by extension) corpse, cadaver, a dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal

   Synonyms: جثه (cüsse), میت (meyt), نعش (naʼaş)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “جنازه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 537
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cenaze”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 775
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “cenâze”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 164
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جنازه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 446
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Funus”, 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 632
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جنازه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1658
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cenaze”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جنازه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 680

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَنَازَة (janāza).

Pronunciation

Noun

جنازه • (janâze, jenâze)

1. funeral
   • c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, “Section 4, Part 1”, in کشکول‎:

     گدایی همی‌رفت و کودکش در پیش روان بود. کودک صدای زنی بشنید که در پی جنازه‌ای همی‌گفت: ای مرد، تو را به جایی برند که نه در آن عطایی بود نه فراشی، نه چاشتی و نه شامی. کودک گفت: پدر، جنازه را به خانه‌ی ما همی‌برند.

     gedâyi hamiraft o kudakaš dar piš ravân bud. kudak sedâ-ye zani bešenid ke dar pey-e jenâze‌'i hamigoft: ey mard, to râ be jayi barand ke na dar ân atâyi bovad na farrâši, na čâšti o na šâmi. kudak goft: pedar, jenâze râ be xâne-ye mâ hamibarand.

     A beggar was walking with his child in front of him. The child overheard a woman following a funeral procession say: "O' man, they are bringing you to a place where there are neither gifts nor servants, neither lunch nor dinner." The child said: "Father, they are bringing the corpse to our house."

2. bier, with a corpse on it
3. corpse (dead body)