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özen.

Attention and care given to a task at hand; pains.

4 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/øˈzœn/[ø̞ᵝˈz̟æn̟]
  1. Attention and care given to a task at hand; pains.

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوزن (üzen, özen, “pains, pains-taking”), from اوز (öz, “pith, essence, the self”), from Proto-Turkic *ȫŕ (“inside, the essential part, the self”), morphologically öz + -en.

noun/øˈzœn/[ø̞ᵝˈz̟æn̟]
  1. Small river.

    dialectal
  2. A flat or hollow spot between mountains.

    dialectal
  3. Fertile, marshy, wet area, grasslands.

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Turkic *ögüŕ (“small river”). Compare Karakhanid اُوزْ (öz, “small river between two mountains”), اُكُزْ (öküz, ögüz, ügüz, “river; ox”), Old Turkic 𐰇𐰏𐰕 (ẅg²z, “small river”). Cognates with Azerbaijani özən, Tatar үзән (üzän), Kazakh өзен (özen).

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