طنز

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with the concept of mockery, ridicule, and making fun of someone. It also extends to a type of fish and appears in place names and personal names, possibly as a nisba. Some derived forms are noted as potentially being neologisms or loanwords.

Derived headwords

الطَّنْزnoun

1.
mockeryboth
The act of ridiculing or making fun of someone.
2.
a type of fishclassical
A specific kind of fish.

طَنَزَverb

1.
to mockboth
To ridicule or make fun of someone.

يَطَنَّزُverb

1.
to mockboth
Present or future tense of mocking or ridiculing.

طَنَّازadjective

1.
mockingboth
One who mocks or ridicules; a mocker.

طَنَزَةname

1.
Tanzaclassical
A place name, specifically a location in Diyar Bakr.

الطَّنْزِيّname

1.
Al-Tanziclassical
A nisba indicating origin from or association with Tanza.

مُطَنِّزَةadjective

1.
worthlessclassical
Describing people who are considered to have no good qualities or self-worth.

طَانَزَهُverb

1.
to mock himclassical
To engage in mockery with someone.

مُطَانَزَةnoun

1.
mutual mockeryclassical
The act of mocking each other; reciprocal ridicule.

تَطَانَزُواverb

1.
they mocked each otherclassical
Past tense verb indicating mutual mockery.

الطَّنِيزname

1.
Al-Tanizclassical
A name or nisba, possibly related to the root, with a specific pronunciation noted.

Parallel reading

الطنز، بالفتح: السخرية

Al-Tanz, with fatha: mockery.

ويقال: طنز به يطنز فهو طناز، كشداد، أي سخر به

And it is said: he mocked him, he mocks, he is a mocker, like shaddad, meaning he was mocked.

الطنز: ضرب من السمك.

Al-Tanz: a type of fish.

وطنزة: ة، بديار بكر.

And Tanza: a place, in Diyar Bakr.

يقال: هم مدنقة ودناق ومطنزة إذا كانوا لا خير فيهم، هينة أنفسهم عليهم.

It is said: they are mudannaqa, danaq, and mutannaza if they have no good in them, their selves are easy upon them.

طانزه مطانزة وتطانزوا.

He mocked him with mutual mockery, and they mocked each other.

وأبو القاسم أحمد بن محمد بن أحمد بن الطنيز، كزبير، الحاسب الفرضي، كان بالأندلس بعد الأربعمائة.

And Abu Al-Qasim Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Al-Taniz, like Zubayr, the mathematician of inheritance, was in Al-Andalus after the four hundreds.

وأبو الحسن علي بن أحمد بن عبد العزيز بن طنيز، كزبير، الأنصاري الميورقي، سمع بدمشق من عبد العزيز الكتاني وابن طلاب الخطيب ومات سنة للهجرة

And Abu Al-Hasan Ali bin Ahmad bin Abd Al-Aziz bin Taniz, like Zubayr, the Ansari Al-Mayurqi, heard in Damascus from Abd Al-Aziz Al-Kattani and Ibn Tullab Al-Khatib and died in the year [of Hijra].