Etymology 1
Cognate with Central Kurdish مۆز (moz, “horsefly”), Zazaki moza (“horsefly”), Mazanderani ماز (māz, “bee”). From Proto-Iranian *wabžáH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wabžʰáH, from Proto-Indo-European *wóps, from *webʰ-.[1] Asatrian initially derived from Armenian մոզ (moz),[2] but later proposed the native Iranian etymology himself.[1]
References
Asatrian, Garnik (2002) “Review of R. L. Tsabolov, Etymological Dictionary of Kurdish, vol. 1 (A-M), Moscow: “Academy of Sciences”, 2001, 686 pp.”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 6, number 1, page 269 Асатрян, Г. (1987) “Язык заза и армянский (Предварительные заметки)”, in Patma-banasirakan handes (in Russian), number 1, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 165 Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “muz”, in Курдско-русский словарь (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.2) (in Russian), edited by Ž. S. Musaeljan and I. I. Cukerman from the author's manuscript written during his 1911–1912 Moks expedition, Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 125b Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “moz I”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pages 397–398 Bakajev, Č. X. (1957) “моз I”, in I. A. Orbeli, editor, Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ, Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 247a Adjarian, H. (1909–1911) “Recueil de mots kurdes en dialecte de Novo-Bayazet”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume XVI, page 361a Kurdojev, K. K. (1960) “moz I”, in Курдско-русский словарь, Moscow: Государственное издательство иностранных и национальных словарей, page 549b Rhea, Samuel A. (1872–1880) “Brief Grammar and Vocabulary of the Kurdish Language of the Hakari District”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 10, page 147b
Further reading
- Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 682
- Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) “موز”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 408b
Etymology 2
- моз (moz) — Cyrillic spelling
- موز (muz) — Arabic spelling
References
Bakajev, Č. X. (1957) “моз II”, in I. A. Orbeli, editor, Kurdsko-russkij slovarʹ, Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje izdatelʹstvo inostrannyx i nacionalʹnyx slovarej, page 247a Kurdojev, K. K. (1960) “moz II”, in Курдско-русский словарь, Moscow: Государственное издательство иностранных и национальных словарей, page 549b Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “moz II”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 398a