Clauson (1972)
An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
p. 277
u:z
‘a skilled craftsman’; hence, of a man or his work, ‘skilled’, and by extension, of inanimate objects, ‘perfect, in sound condition’. S.i.m.m.l.g., with much extended meanings in SW. See Doerfer II 593. Türkü viii uzığ prob. ‘skilled work’ occurs in a damaged passage in II S/E; see also 1 ö:z: viii ff. Yen. Uz Bilge: Çağşı: P.N. Mal. 31, 1: Uyğ. viii ff. Man.-A M I 16, 13-15 (edsiz): Man. kaltı uz kişi uzlanğu ed bulmasar ‘just as a craftsman, if he cannot find material fit to be skilfully wrought’ M I 17, 1: Bud. tegin kopuzka ertigü uz erti ‘the prince was extremely skilful in (playing the) guitar’ PP 70, 6-7; o.o. do. 2, 5-6 (işle:-); U II 33, 4; TT VII 28, 49 and 55; in some phr. it hardly means more than ‘completely’ e.g. uz açılmış çeçekliğ ‘with fully opened flowers’ U II 56, 3 (i); o.o. TT VIII A.15; B.10; E.39 (odun-): Civ. (in a cure for sore throat; if one does this two or three times) keze uz açılur ‘it passes off and is completely cured’ H I 154; in TT VII 13, 43 and 52 uz teŋrisi is the equivalent of the Indian deity Lakṣmā: xiv Chin.-Uyğ. Dict. chiang jen ‘craftsman’ (Giles, 1,246 5,624) uz kişi Ligeti 275; R I 1742: Xak. u:z kişi: insān ṣin‘u’l-yadayn māhir fī ḥirfatihi ‘a man who is skilful with his hands and expert at his craft’ Kaş. I 46: KB tili uz sözi ‘the words of his tongue were skilful’ 531; eter uz işi ‘he arranges his affairs skilfully’ 4814; Chap. 60, 4456 ff. deals with uzlar ‘craftsmen’; o.o. 805, 1707, 2660, 5992 (yörgüçi:): xiii(?) At. anın uz erür bu kitâb ‘therefore this book is skilfully written’ 477: xiv Muh. (in a list of words in which wāw is pronounced u:) al-ṣāni‘ wa’l-ustād ‘craftsman, skilled worker’ u:z Mel. 5, 9; 51, 11; Rif. 75, 147; al-musta‘idda ‘a capable woman’ u:z Mel. 53, 2; Rif. 149: Çağ. xv ff. uz bāliğ wa sancīda wa māhir ‘efficacious, experienced, skilled’ San. 73v. 3: Xwar. xiv uz ‘sage’ (N. and Adj.) Qutb 201: Kıp. xiv u:z al-ṣāni‘u’l-māhir İd. 12: xv lābiq ‘skilled’ (şeber and) uz Tuh. 31b. 6: Osm. xiv ff. uz c.i.a.p.; originally ‘skilled’, it came by xv to mean also ‘clever, sensible’ and by xvii even ‘suitable, convenient’ TTS I 737-9; II 943-5; III 725; IV 797.