رزه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَزّة (razza, “staple or hasp into which a bolt shoots”).

Noun

رزه • (reze)

1. hinge, jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door

   Synonym: منتشه (menteşe)

2. tumbler, a piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock

Derived terms

• رزه‌ ارككی (reze erkeği, “pintle of a hinge”)
• رزه‌ دیشیسی (reze dişisi, “brace of a hinge”)
• رزه‌لمك (rezelemek, “to furnish with hinges”)
• رزه‌لو (rezeli, “furnished with hinges”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: reze
• → Macedonian: резе (reze)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “reze1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3965
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رزه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 620
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cardo”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 153
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “رزه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2307
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “reze”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رزه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 972