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وزز

Root entry · 12 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to water birds, specifically geese, and their characteristics. It extends to describe a person's light, unsteady, or quick gait, and also refers to death and a specific type of wooden tool.

Derived headwords

الإوزّnoun
  1. 1.
    Geeseboth

    A type of water bird, specifically geese. This is a variant pronunciation of the more common word.

كالوزينother
  1. 1.
    Like geeseclassical

    A comparative phrase indicating similarity to geese, with specific vocalization noted.

الوزينةnoun
  1. 1.
    Gooseclassical

    A single goose, referring to the female of the water bird.

موزةnoun
  1. 1.
    Land of many geeseclassical

    An area or land characterized by a large number of geese. This form assumes a dropped hamza.

مأوزةnoun
  1. 1.
    Land of many geeseclassical

    An area or land characterized by a large number of geese. This form is the grammatically correct version with the hamza.

الوزوازnoun
  1. 1.
    Birdclassical

    A type of bird, mentioned by Ibn Duraid.

  2. 2.
    Flippant manclassical

    A man who is light and unsteady in his walk.

  3. 3.
    Short, stout manclassical

    A man who is short and thickset, similar to a goose in build.

كالوزاوزةother
  1. 1.
    Like a flippant manclassical

    A comparative phrase describing someone as being like a flippant or unsteady walker.

يوزوز استهverb
  1. 1.
    To twist one's rearclassical

    To twist or contort one's posterior when walking, indicating a specific, perhaps affected, gait.

الوزوزnoun
  1. 1.
    Deathclassical

    A term for death, with variations in vocalization noted.

  2. 2.
    Wide plankclassical

    A wide wooden plank used for dragging or moving earth, particularly on a bank.

الوزوزةnoun
  1. 1.
    Flippancy and levityclassical

    A state of being light, flighty, or frivolous.

  2. 2.
    Quick hopping gaitclassical

    The act of walking with quick, hopping steps.

  3. 3.
    Short, swaying walkclassical

    A manner of walking characterized by short steps combined with body swaying, typical of a short, stout person.

موزوزadjective
  1. 1.
    Swayingclassical

    Describing a man who walks with a swaying motion, possibly implying a light or unsteady gait.

الوزوازةname
  1. 1.
    A specific water sourceclassical

    The name of a water source belonging to the tribe of Banu Ka'b ibn Abi Bakr.

Parallel reading

الوز، لغة في الإوز، وهو من طير الماء، قاله الجوهري
Al-wazz, a variant pronunciation of al-iwazz, which is a type of water bird, according to Al-Jauhari.
كالوزين، بفتح فتشديد زاي مكسورة، نقله الصاغاني
Like al-wazzayn, with a fatha, then a shadda on a kasura-ed zaay, as narrated by Al-Saghani.
الوزينة: الإوزة.
Al-wazzinah: The goose.
وأرض موزة: كثيرته، وهذا على حذف الهمزة
And a land mawwazah: full of them (geese), and this is with the hamza omitted.
وأما على إثباتها فينبغي أن يكون مأوزة، كما حققه الليث
But if it is with the hamza affirmed, it should be ma'wazah, as verified by Al-Laith.
والوزواز: طائر عن ابن دريد
And al-wazzwaz: a bird, according to Ibn Duraid.
والوزواز: الرجل الطياش الخفيف في مشيه
And al-wazzwaz: the man who is flippant and light in his walk.
كالوزاوزة، بالضم.
Like al-wazawazah, with damma.
والوزواز: الذي يوزوز استه إذا مشى، أي يلويها، وهو مشي الرجل متوقصا في جانبيه.
And al-wazzwaz: he who twists his rear when he walks, meaning he contorts it, which is the walk of a man strutting with a sway to his sides.
الوزواز: القصير الغليظ كالإوز.
Al-wazzwaz: the short, stout one, like the geese.
والوزوز، أي كجعفر: الموت، وضبطه الصاغاني، كصبور.
And al-wazwaz, meaning like Ja'far: death, and Al-Saghani vocalized it like sabur.
الوزوز، كجعفر: خشبة عريضة يجر، وفي التكملة، بجرف بها تراب الأرض، وزاد في اللسان: المرتفعة إلى المنخفضة، وهو بالفارسية زوزم.
Al-wazwaz, like Ja'far: a wide plank that is dragged, and in Al-Takmilah, it is used to scoop earth from a bank, and in Al-Lisan it is added: from the high to the low, and it is 'zuzam' in Persian.
والوزوزة: الخفة والطيش.
And al-wazwazah: lightness and flippancy.
الوزوزة: سرعة الوثب في المشي.
Al-wazwazah: speed of leaping in walking.
الوزوزة: مقاربة الخطو مع تحريك الجسد، وهو مشية القصير الغليظ.
Al-wazwazah: shortening the stride with body movement, which is the gait of the short, stout person.
قال الفراء: رجل موزوز، كمدحرج، كأنه في معنى مغرد.
Al-Farra' said: a man mawzouz, like mudahraj, as if in the meaning of 'singing'.
الوزوازة: بالفتح: ماء لبني كعب بن أبي بكر، تسمى جفر الفرس، نقله ياقوت.
Al-wazzwazah: with fatha: a water source of Banu Ka'b ibn Abi Bakr, called Jafr al-Faras, as narrated by Yaqut.