avaz

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آواز‎ (âvâz), from Persian (âvâz). Akin to àvāzīle.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ǎʋaːz/
Hyphenation: a‧vaz

Noun

àvāz m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ва̄з)

(regional) voice
(regional) news

Declension

Declension of avaz

	singular	plural
nominative	àvāz	avazi
genitive	aváza	avaza
dative	avazu	avazima
accusative	avaz	avaze
vocative	avaze	avazi
locative	avazu	avazima
instrumental	avazom	avazima

Synonyms

(voice): glȃs
(news): vijȇst / vȇst

References

“avaz” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Abdulah Škaljić (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Svjetlost: Sarajevo, page 105

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian (âvâz). Cognate with English voice.

Noun

avaz

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