جزا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَزَاء (jazāʔ, “punishment”).

Noun

جزا • (ceza)

1. recompense, reward, return, an equivalent returned for anything given or done

   Synonyms: بدل (bedel), مكافات (mukafat)

2. punishment, castigation, a penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime

   Synonyms: عقوبت (ʿukubet), مجازات (mucazat)

3. (logic, grammar) apodosis, the consequential clause in a conditional sentence

Derived terms

• جزاسنی بولمق (cezasını bulmak, “to meet one's due reward or punishment”)
• جزاسنی ویرمك (cezasını virmek, “to deal out to one his punishment”)
• جزالندرمق (cezalandırmak, “to punish”)
• جزالنمق (cezalanmak, “to be punished”)
• جزای سنمار (cezaî Sinimmar, “reward of Sinimmar”)
• جزای شرط (cezaî şart, “apodosis”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ceza
• → Armenian: ճէզա (čēza), ջա̈զա̈ (ǰäzä)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ceza1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 787
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “cezâ”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 170
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جزا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 439
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Compensatio”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 219
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جزا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1608
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ceza”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جزا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 657

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَزَاء (jazāʔ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒa.ˈzɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.zɑ́ː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.zɑ́ː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.zɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.zɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæ.zɒ́ː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒä.zɔ́]

Readings
Classical reading?	jazā
Dari reading?	jazā
Iranian reading?	jazâ
Tajik reading?	jazo

Noun

Dari	جزا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҷазо

جزا • (jazâ)

1. punishment