موز

Borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭬 𐭅 𐭆‎ (mwc /⁠mōč⁠/), from Sanskrit मोच (moca), then, according to Roger Blench, via Dravidian (compare Tamil மோத்தை (mōttai, “banana flower”) from Malayo-Polynesian (compare Dobel muɁu, Manggarai muku) from Trans-New Guinea (compare Fataluku muɁu, Mosimo mugu), ultimately from Proto-Trans-New Guinea *mugu.[1]

• IPA^(key): /mawz/

مَوْز • (mawz) m (collective, singulative مَوْزَة‎ f (mawza))

1. banana

• Hijazi Arabic: موز‎ (mōz)
• → Amharic: ሙዝ (muz)
  • → Baiso: muze
  • → Kachama-Ganjule: muz, muze
  • → Sidamo: muuze
• → Middle Armenian: մոզ (moz)
• → Ge'ez: ሙዝ (muz)
• → Harari: ሙዝ (mūz)
• → Hebrew: מוז‎ (moz)
• → Ottoman Turkish: موز‎ (mevz, muz)
  • Turkish: muz
• → Persian: مَوْز‎
• → Swahili: mazu
• → Tigre: ሙዝ (muz)
• → Tigrinya: ሙዝ (muz)

From Proto-Turkic *būŕ.

موز (muz) (plural موزلار‎)

1. ice

• Uyghur: مۇز‎ (muz)
• Uzbek: muz

From Arabic مَوْز‎ (mawz).

• IPA^(key): /moːz/, [mo̞ːz]

موز • (mōz) m (collective, singulative موزة‎ f (mōza), plural موزات‎ (mōzāt))

1. (collective) banana

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْز‎ (mawz).

• IPA^(key): [mɛvz], [mɛˈviz], [muz]

موز • (mevz, meviz, muz)

1. banana

• Turkish: muz

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “موز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2028b

(In Iranian Persian and Tajik) Borrowed from Arabic مَوْز‎ (mawz), itself a borrowing from Middle Persian.

Otherwise Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭬 𐭅 𐭆‎ (mwc /⁠mōč⁠/), from Sanskrit मोच (moca), derived from Dravidian (compare Tamil மோத்தை (mōttai, “banana flower”), from Malayo-Polynesian (see Dobel muɁu, Manggarai muku), from Trans-New Guinea (see Fataluku muɁu, Mosimo mugu) and lastly from Proto-Trans-New Guinea *mugu.

• (dialectal, Hamadan) IPA^(key): /mewz/

موز • (mowz) (plural موزها‎ (mowz-hâ))

1. (chiefly Iran or dated) banana

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “mōz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

Inherited from Sanskrit मांस (māṁsá).

• IPA^(key): /moːz/

موز (moz)

1. meat, flesh

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “māṁsá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

From Arabic مَوْز‎ (mawz).

• IPA^(key): /moːz/, [moːz]

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موز • (mōz) m (collective, singulative موزة‎ f (mōze), paucal موزات‎ (mōzāt))

1. (uncountable) bananas

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَوْز‎‎ (mawz), from Arabic مَوْز‎ (mawz).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mɔːz/

مَوز • (mauz) m (Hindi spelling मौज़)

1. a type of banana

• “موز”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “موز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.