different between meze vs maze

English

Alternative forms

• mezze, mazzeh, mazze

Etymology

From Turkish meze and Greek ????? (mezés), both from Ottoman Turkish ???? (meze), from Persian ???? (maze, “taste, snack”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?ze?/

Noun

meze (countable and uncountable, plural mezes or mezedes)

1. Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita.

Further reading

• meze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mzee

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?z?]

Noun

meze f

1. inflection of mez:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

meze

1. in the middle of, amid
   • 1908, J. Arbes, trans. by Jos. Gr?a, Rakontoj

     Lia rigardo ekrondis en la malri?a, mizera ?ambreto kaj fiksis sur la blondulino, sidanta en luksa balvesto meze de plej mizera meblaro plej sor?e lumigita.

     His regard started around the poor, miserable small room and fixed upon the blond woman sitting in luxurious party clothing in the middle of most miserable furniture most bewitchingly illuminated.

   • 1999, Mark Twain, trans. by Edwin Grobe, "Konfeso de Mortanto", Tri Noveloj

     Imagu kion li devis eksenti veki?inte meze de tiu senvo?a silento kaj ?irka?spektadinte tiun malgajan mortintaron!

     Think what it must have been to wake up in the midst of that voiceless hush and look out over that grim congregation of the dead!

   • 2006, Henrik Ibsen, trans. by Odd Tangerud, La kolonoj de la socio, ?ISBN

     Meze sur la kontra?a pordo estas pli granda enir-pordo.

     On the middle of the opposite door is a larger entrance door.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• mèza

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (meze), from Persian ???? (maze, “taste, snack”). Akin to mezètluk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ze/
• Hyphenation: me?ze

Noun

mèze n (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) snack, bite

Declension

Derived terms

• mèzetiti
• zamèzetiti

References

• “meze” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• Škalji?, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 462

English

Etymology

From Middle English mase, from an aphetic variant of Middle English masen (“to perplex, bewilder”); or perhaps from Old English *mæs (“delusion, bewilderment”); akin to Old English ?masian (“to perplex, confound”), Icelandic masa (“to chatter”). More at amaze.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?me?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: maise, maize

Noun

maze (plural mazes)

1. A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
2. Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
3. Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment.

   Synonyms: perplexity, uncertainty

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

maze (third-person singular simple present mazes, present participle mazing, simple past and past participle mazed)

1. to amaze, astonish, bewilder

   • they so mazed and even stupified his Conscience

2. to daze, stupefy, or confuse

Translations

Anagrams

• Maez, Meza

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?maz?]

Noun

maze

1. vocative singular of maz

Middle English

Etymology 1

From masen.

Noun

maze

1. Alternative form of mase

Etymology 2

Probably from amased.

Verb

maze

1. Alternative form of masen