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English

Etymology

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Noun

bez (plural bezes)

1. The second tine of an antler's beam.

Translations

See also

• bezantler

Anagrams

• Zeb

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

bez f (plural bezes)

1. a time
2. occasion

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “bez”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

Basque

Noun

bez

1. instrumental indefinite of be

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *b?z?, *b?za, *b?zina, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh??os

Noun

bez m

1. elderberry (shrub or tree)

Derived terms

• bezinka
• bezový

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Indo-European *b?e??s.

Preposition

bez (+ genitive case)

1. without

Antonyms

• s

Further reading

• bez in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• bez in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Latvian

Etymology

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Preposition

bez (with genitive)

1. without
2. in addition to
3. apart from

Derived terms

• bez-

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (isolated) /b?s/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Indo-European *b?e??-.

Preposition

bez (+ genitive)

1. without, lacking

Related terms

• beze

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *b?z?, *b?za, *b?zina, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh??os.

Noun

bez m inan

1. elder (bush of genus Sambucus)
2. lilac (bush of genus Syringa)

Declension

Etymology 3

Preposition

bez

1. (Pozna?, Upper Silesia) because of
2. (Bia?ystok, Bukovina) across, through

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

bez

1. genitive plural of beza

Further reading

• bez in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• bez in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bez

Adverb

bez

1. (dated) without

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bez. Compare bez- and bes-.

Alternative forms

• (regional): brez, pr?z, preza

Preposition

bèz (Cyrillic spelling ???) (+ genitive case)

1. without, excluding, not counting

Related terms

• bez-, bes-

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (bez), from Arabic ????? (bazz). Akin to bezistan, bezli, besofra and bespara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bêz/

Noun

b?z m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. linen, canvas
2. (specifically) a type of cotton-made linen or canvas used in Oriental costumes, of several possible forms: ?ere?e, sedeluk, kafez or kafez-bez, melez, harir, šejtanbez and harirbez.

Declension

References

• “bez” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “bez” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• Škalji?, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 140

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bez, from Proto-Indo-European *b?e??-

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?s/

Preposition

bez (+ genitive)

1. without

Synonyms

• bezo

Antonyms

• s, so

Further reading

• bez in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Tatar

Noun

bez

1. awl

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (bez), from Arabic ????? (bazz).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bez/
• Hyphenation: bez

Noun

bez (definite accusative bezi, plural bezler)

1. cloth

Declension

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (bez), from Proto-Turkic.

Cognate withKazakh ??? (bez, “gland”),Karachay-Balkar ??? (bez, “gland”),Uzbek bez (“gland”),Uyghur ???? (bez, “gland”),Turkmen mäz (“gland”),Bashkir ??? (bið, “gland”),Tuvan ??? (bes, “gland”),Chuvash ??? (par, “gland”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bez/
• Hyphenation: bez

Noun

bez (definite accusative bezi, plural bezler)

1. (anatomy) gland

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• les

Etymology

Clipping of lesbian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?z/
• Rhymes: -?z

Noun

lez (plural lezzes)

1. (slang, sometimes vulgar) Lesbian.

Derived terms

• lez out

Anagrams

• zel

Albanian

Alternative forms

• leze, lezë
• lemzë

Etymology

From fuller and dialectal lemzë, diminutive in -zë ~ ëz of dialectal lem (“birth; rise”), deverbative of lej (“to give birth”); the original meaning would have been ‘birthmark’.

Noun

lez m (indefinite plural lezë, definite singular lezi, definite plural lezët)

1. facial mole
2. (medicine) wart
3. (medicine) tumor
4. (dialectal) mark, spot, pimple, birthmark

Synonyms

• (wart, mole): lyth, yll
• (tumor): iriq

References

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?s/
• Homophone: les
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

lez

1. second-person singular imperative of lézt

French

Alternative forms

• lès

Etymology

From Old French lez, from Late Latin latus (“next to, beside”), from Latin l?tus (“side”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le/

Preposition

lez

1. (obsolete) next to, near (still used in some place names)

   Saint-André-lez-Lille est une ville proche de Lille.

   Saint-André-lez-Lille is a town near Lille.

Further reading

• “lez” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

• les, lés

Etymology

From Latin l?tus.

Noun

lez m (oblique plural lez, nominative singular lez, nominative plural lez)

1. side

Synonyms

• costé

Derived terms

• delez

Descendants

• French: lès, lez