عجوز

Intensive adjective from the root ع ج ز (ʕ j z); compare عَجَزَ (ʕajaza, “to be weak, to grow old”).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.d͡ʒuːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz

عَجُوز • (ʕajūz) f (plural عَجَائِز (ʕajāʔiz) or عُجُز (ʕujuz))

1. old woman
2. old man
3. advanced in years

• Gulf Arabic: عيوز (ʕayūz)
• → Northern Kurdish: ecûze
• → Ottoman Turkish: عجوز (acuz)
  • Turkish: acuz
• → Persian: عجوز ('ajuz), عجوزه ('ajuze)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: अजूज़ (ajūz)

    Urdu: عجوز (ajūz)

• IPA^(key): /ʕu.d͡ʒuːz/

عُجُوز • (ʕujūz) m

1. old age

From Arabic عَجُوز (ʕajūz).

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.d͡ʒuːz/

عجوز • (ʕajūz) (feminine عَجوزة (ʕajūza), common plural عَجايِز (ʕajāyiz))

1. old (age)

   Antonym: كَبير (kabīr)

From Arabic عَجُوز (ʕajūz).

عجوز • (acuz)

1. old woman

• Turkish: acuz

• عجوزه ('ajuze)

From Arabic عَجُوز (ʕajūz).

عَجوز • ('ajuz) (plural عَجوز‌ها ('ajuz-hâ) or عَجائِز ('ajâ'ez))

1. old woman; crone; hag; beldam

   Synonym: پیرزن (pirzan)

2. witch; sorceress

   Synonym: ساحره (sâhere)

3. (figurative, poetic) the frail and transient world, compared to a decrepit woman
   • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 37”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divan of Hafez]‎^[1]:

     مجو درستیِ عهد از جهانِ سست نهاد
     که این عجوز، عروس هزاردامادست

     majû durustî-yi ahd az jahân-i sust nihâd
     ki în ajûz, arûs-i hazâr dâmâd ast

     Have no faith in promises from this feeble-hearted world,
     For this crone has been the bride to a thousand suitors.

     (romanization in Classical Persian)

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: अजूज़ (ajūz)

  Urdu: عجوز (ajūz)