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bez.

cloth

3 characters1 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbez/
  1. cloth

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish بز (bez); see there for more. The ultimate origin is Arabic بَزّ (bazz), however, an influence from Byzantine Greek βύσσος (bússos) has been postulated in order to explain the mismatch in the vowels.

noun/ˈbez/
  1. gland

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish بز (bez), from Proto-Turkic *beŕ. Cognate with Kazakh без (bez, “gland”), Karachay-Balkar без (bez, “gland”), Southern Altai бес (bes, “gland”), Uzbek bez (“gland”), Uyghur بەز (bez, “gland”), Turkmen mäz (“gland”), Bashkir биҙ (bið, “gland”), Tuvan бес (bes, “gland”), Chuvash пар (par, “gland”).

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