𐰶𐰃𐰕

kız

Meaning:
girl, daughter, young woman, female
Alternative spellings:
𐰴𐰃𐰔
𐽲𐽶𐽴
قٖيزْ

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.
Language Cognate
Turkmen gȳz
Turkish (Azerbaijan) qız
Turkish (Türkiye) kız
Salar qız
Gagauz kız
Crimean qız
Uyghur qiz
Uzbek qiz
Kazakh qız
Nogai kız
Siberian Tatar -
Kyrgyz kız
Altai -
Alan qız
Kumyk qız
Tatar kyz
Bashkir qyz̦
Tıva kıs
Khakas xıs
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) kııs
Khalaj qīz
Chuvash hĕr

Examples

Translations

German:
das Mädchen, die Tochter
Kazakh:
qız
Kyrgyz:
kız
Russian:
1. девочка, девушка, дезамужняя женщина; 2. дочь
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
qız
Turkish (Türkiye):
kız
Turkmen:
gyz
Uzbek:
qiz
  • Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 679
    1 kı:z basically ‘girl, unmarried woman’, but often used with a more restricted meaning ‘daughter, slave girl’, and the like. Although the main entry in Kaş. is kız the original form was certainly kı:z, SW Tkm. still ğı:z. C.i.a.p.a.l.; cf. kırkın, kırna:k. L.-w. in Pe., etc., Doerfer III 1601. Türkü viii silik kız oğlı:n ‘their pure (i.e. virgin) daughters’ (as opposed to urı: oğlı:n ‘sons’) I E 7, II E 7; (I wedded) kızımın ‘my daughter’ (to the Türgeş xağan and took) kızın ‘his daughter’ (to marry my son) II N 9-10; a.o. T 48 (ağır): viii ff. ol kız ‘that girl’ Toyok IV r. 6 (ETY II 180): Uyğ. viii eki: kızım tapığ berti: ‘he gave his two daughters to serve me’ (i.e. as hostages) Şu. W 4-5; a.o. do. E 3 (koduz): ix (I had three sons and) kızım üç ‘three daughters’ Suci 6; a.o. do. 7: viii ff. Man.-A (the Light Goddess) amrak kızı ‘the benign daughter’ (of the God Zurvan) M I 25, 33: Bud. kız ‘girl’ is common, e.g. Badra kız ‘the maiden Bhadrā’ U II 20, 2; o.o. in PP 41 ff. (kırkın); it also often means ‘daughter’, e.g. (said by a mother) amrak kızım U III 84, 9; o.o. TT VI 146 (tüzün): Civ. kız is common in TT VII, usually for ‘daughter’; a.o. TT I 156 (utlılığ): O. Kır. ix ff. (I could not stay with) oğlanım küdegürlerim kız kelinlerim ‘my sons, sons-in-law, daughters, and daughters-in-law’ Mal. 3, 6; kız oğlım ‘my daughters’ do. 22, 1; a.o. do. 16, 1 (yalŋus): Xak. xi kız al-cāriya ‘slave girl’; hence one says kız kırkın al-cawārī; kız al-bint ‘daughter’; one says meniŋ kızım ‘my daughter’; and ‘a virgin’ (al-‘aḏrā) is called ew (sic) kızı: that is ‘(a girl) kept (muxaddara) in the home’; yinçge: kız al-surriyya ‘concubine’; this word is used both for ‘a young free woman’ (al-ḥurratu’l-fatiya) and ‘a slave girl’ (al-cāriyatu’l-mamlūka), but originally meant ‘virgin’ (al-‘aḏrā) and the other meanings were taken metaphorically (ustu‘īra) from it: kız kuş the name of a bird which flutters (yatakāfīh) round a man as if it wishes to alight on him (yaqa‘ ‘alayhi) Kaş. I 326; the word, nearly always spelt ki:z, is very common in Kaş.; both 1 and 2 ki:z occur in the prov. kalıŋ be:rse: kı:z alı:r kere:k bulsa: ki:z alı:r ‘if a man pays a bride price he gets a virgin for a bride (al-‘arūs bikra(n)); if he wants something and must have it (huwa muḥtāc ilayhi), he inevitably pays high for it’ (yaştariyahu ğāliya(n)) III 371, 20; the Oğuz and Kıp., who are a section (ṭabaqa) of the Xalaç, say xi:zim ‘my daughter’, and the Turks say ki:zim III 218, 21: KB (the Prophet gave him) iki kızın ‘his two daughters’ 56; (the partridge calls its mate) silik kız okır teg köŋül bermişin ‘as a pure maiden calls him to whom she has given her heart’ 75; o.o. 564 (2 ki:z), 2380, 4477 (ev kızı): xiii(?) Tef. kız ‘daughter’ 207: xiv Muh. al-bikr ‘virgin’ evdeki ki:z Mel. 53, 1-13; aru: kız Rif. 149; arı: kız 150; al-bint ki:z 49, 9; 144; a.o. do. (karında:ş): Çağ. xv ff. kız duxtar-i bākira ‘unmarried daughter’ San. 296v. 3: Kom. ‘virgin, daughter’ kız; ‘sister’ kız karandaş (sic); ‘maid-servant’ (sic) evdegi kız CCI, CCG; Gr.: Kıp. xiii al-bint kız Hou. 24, 21; 32, 3; al-bikr kız oğlan do. 25, 1; a.o. do. 32, 1 (karında:ş): xiv kız al-bint wa’l-bikr; one says kızı kız-mu durur ‘is his daughter a virgin?’ İd. 71; al-bint kız Bul. 9, 2; o.o. do. (karında:ş): xv al-bikr kız Kav. 59, 14; Tuh. 7a. 4; a.o. do. 3b. 4 (karında:ş).
  • Tekin (1965) A grammar of Orkhon Turkic p. 345
    qız female; girl; daughter
  • Академия (2016) Древнетюркский словарь p. 477
    QIZ I 1. девочка, девушка, дезамужняя женщина; 2. дочь
  • Kurtuluş Öztopçu (1999) Dictionary of the Turkic Languages
    daughter