uz

See also: Appendix:Variations of "uz"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Uzbek

Symbol

uz

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

English

Pronoun

uz

1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of us (“me”).

Anagrams

• Zu

Galician

FWOTD – 27 March 2013

Alternative forms

• uce, urce

uces

Etymology

From Latin ulex, itself from a local substrate language. Compare Portuguese urze, Spanish urce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuθ/, (western) /ˈus/

Noun

uz f (plural uces)

1. (botany) heather (especially any of several shrub species in the genus Erica)
   • 1458, José-Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 413:

     et abedes de leuantar enno dicto lugar huna casa enno dicto lugar, de pedra, cuberta de huzes et de culmo

     You should build there a house at that place, made of stone, covered with heather and thatch

   • 1986, Constantino García, Grilos e ralos, rans albariñas in Actas do Congresso internacional de estudos sobre Rosalia de Castro e o seu tempo, volume 3, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 78:

     Dado que existe toxo albar e que albar e mesmo albariña significa nalgunhas zonas de Galicia uz, carpaza, breixo, penso que cabería tamén a posibilidade de interpreta-las rans albariñas como rans dos breixos.

     Considering that there is toxo albar and that albar and even albariña mean, in some regions of Galicia, heather, rockrose, heaths, I think we could also interpret rans albariñas as rockrose frogs.

   Synonyms: breixo, queiroa, torgo

   1. Spanish heath (Erica australis)

      Synonym: uz moura

   2. tree heath (Erica arborea)

      Synonym: uz branca

   3. Erica scoparia
   4. heather (Calluna vulgaris)

      Synonym: queiroa

Derived terms

• Ucedo
• uceira
• Uces
• uzal
• Uzás

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “huzes”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “uzal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “uz”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “uz”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “uz”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *uź.

Preposition

uz (with accusative or genitive)

1. on, onto (with genitive)
2. to (with accusative)

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ūt, whence also Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old Dutch, Old English ūt, Old Norse út, Gothic 𐌿𐍄 (ūt).

Adverb

ūz

1. out

Preposition

ūz

1. out of

Descendants

• Middle High German: ūz
  • Alemannic German: us
  • Cimbrian: aus, auz (Luserna)
  • German: aus
  • Luxembourgish: aus
  • Yiddish: אויס (oys)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin usus.

Noun

uz n (plural uzuri)

1. use

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	uz	uzul		uzuri	uzurile
genitive-dative	uz	uzului		uzuri	uzurilor
vocative	uzule			uzurilor

Related terms

• uza

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• uza

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъz (Russian воз- (voz-), Polish wz-). Cognate with Lithuanian už.

Pronunciation

• (unaccented) IPA^(key): /uz/

Preposition

uz (Cyrillic spelling уз) (+ accusative case)

1. up, upward

   ići uz stepenice ― to go upstairs

   uz brdo ― uphill

   uz r(ij)eku ― upriver

   peti/penjati se uz konopac ― to climb a rope

2. next to, beside, alongside, by

   uz cestu ― next to the road

   uza samu granicu ― on the very border

3. with, while, along with (circumstances or conditions accompanying the action)

   uz sm(ij)eh/plač ― with laughter/crying

   uz p(j)esmu ― while singing

   uz piće ― with a drink; while having a drink

   p(j)evati uz klavir ― to sing while the piano is playing

4. in spite of, despite (= pȍred)

   uza sve to ― despite all that

Usage notes

The variant form uza is used before enclitics and consonants that would make it difficult to pronounce.

Related terms

• uz-

References

• “uz”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uz/, [uz̪]
• Rhymes: -uz

Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوز, from Common Turkic *ūz, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ūŕ (“master, craftsman”), akin to oğan.

Adjective

uz

1. (obsolete) good, nice
2. (obsolete) able, skilled

   Synonyms: uzman, becerikli

Derived terms

• uzlaşma
• uzlaşmak
• uzman

 

Etymology 2

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوز, from Proto-Turkic *uŕa-. Akin to uzak.

Adverb

uz

1. far, distant

   Synonyms: uzak, ırak

Usage notes

• Only found in the fossilized idiom az gitmek, uz gitmek. Revitalized as a preffix during the Language Reform.
  • ‎uz- + ‎görü (“sight”) → ‎uzgörü (“foresight”)

References

• “uz”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “uz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Yola

Pronoun

uz

1. Alternative form of ouse
   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 10:

     Thaar's no own aal to taak uz thaar.

     There's no one at all to take us there,

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 131