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yaz.

summer

3 characters1 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/jaz/

  1. summer

    Yaz geldiğine göre, her gün yüzme vakti.

  2. spring, springtime

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish یاز (yaz), from Proto-Turkic *yāŕ. Compare Old Turkic 𐰖𐰔 (yaz, “summer”), Chuvash ҫур (śur, “spring”), Yakut саас (saas, “spring”), Tuvan час (ças, “spring”), and Kazakh жаз (jaz, “summer”). Also compare Hungarian nyár (“summer”), a possible r-Turkic (Bulgar) borrowing).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.