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аз

аз

See also: яз, a3, Appendix:Variations of "as", and Appendix:Variations of "az"

Bulgarian

Alternative forms

  • я́зе (jáze), я (ja) (regional)
  • йа (ja), ес (es) (dialectal)

Pronoun

аз (az) (personal)

  1. I; the first-person singular pronoun in the nominative case, used as the subject of a verb.
    Аз съм по-висока от теб.
    Az sǎm po-visoka ot teb.
    I am taller than you.
    Аз не говоря английски.
    Az ne govorja anglijski.
    I don't speak English.

Related terms

References

  1. Mate Kapović, Reconstruction of Balto-Slavic Personal Pronouns (2006)
  2. Georgiev Vl. I., editor (1971), аз”, in Bǎlgarski etimologičen rečnik [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume I, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 5
  3. Trubačev O. N., editor (1974), *azъ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 01, Moscow: Nauka, page 100

Chechen

Noun

аз (az)

  1. voice

Kazakh

Adverb

аз (az)

  1. few

Mongolian

Pronunciation

Etymology

Often paired and contrasted with эз (ez, omen, fate).
Morphologically it looks like the Mongolic defective verb *a- (be) - + (-z) (ᠵᠠ (ǰa) ) suffix, but the semantics are unclear.

Noun

аз (az) (Mongolian spelling ᠠᠵᠠ)

  1. fortune, luck, success, fate
Derived terms

Ossetian

Noun

аз (az)

  1. year

Russian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [as]

Etymology 1

From the pronoun with the same spelling, see below.

Noun

аз (az) m inan (genitive аза́, nominative plural азы́, genitive plural азо́в)

  1. (archaic) name of the letter А (A)
  2. (plural only) basics, fundamentals

Declension

See also

  • а (a)
Derived terms

Etymology

Borrowing from Old Church Slavonic азъ (azŭ), Proto-Slavic *(j)azъ

Pronoun

аз (az)

  1. (archaic, ecclesiastic or ironic) I

See also

  • я (ja)

Tajik

Dari از
Iranian Persian از
Tajik аз (az)

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭬𐭭 (az).

Preposition

аз (az)

  1. from, since

Tatar

Adverb

аз (az)

  1. a bit, slightly