Etymology
Borrowed either directly from Arabic جَنَازَة (janāza, “funeral; bier”) or through Persian جنازه (janâze, jenâze), both ultimately from a Ge'ez word related to Ge'ez ገነዘ (gänäzä, “to wrap, to prepare a body for funeral”).
Noun
جنازه • (cenâze or cinâze) (definite accusative جنازهیی (cenâzeyi), plural جنائز (cenâʼiz) or جنازهلر (cenâzeler))
- funeral, a ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, with the attendant observances
- bier, a litter, stand, or frame on which a corpse is placed to lie in state or to be carried to the grave
- (by extension) corpse, cadaver, a dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal
- Synonyms: جثه (cüsse), میت (meyt), نعش (naʼaş)
Derived terms
- جانلو جنازه (canlı cenâze, “skin and bones”, literally “alive corpse”)
- جنازه آلایی (cenâze alayı, “funeral procession”)
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “جنازه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 537
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cenaze”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 775
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “cenâze”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 164
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جنازه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 446
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Funus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 632
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جنازه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1658
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cenaze”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جنازه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 680
Pronunciation
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Readings |
Classical reading? |
janāza |
Dari reading? |
janāza |
Iranian reading? |
janâza, jenâze |
Tajik reading? |
janoza |
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Noun
More information Dari, Iranian Persian ...
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جنازه |
Iranian Persian |
Tajik |
ҷаноза |
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جنازه • (janâze, jenâze)
- funeral
- bier, with a corpse on it
- corpse (dead body)
Descendants
- → Assamese: জানাজা (zanaza)
- → Bengali: জানাজা (janaja)
- → Gujarati: જનાજો (janājo)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: जनाज़ा (janāzā)
- Urdu: جَنازَہ (janāza)
- → Ottoman Turkish: جنازه (cenaze)