җиз

Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yeŕ. Cognate to Bashkir еҙ (yeź), etc.

Noun

җиз • (ciz)

  1. brass, copper

References

  • Sevortjan, E. V.; Levitskaja, L. S. (1989), “ЙЕЗ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Nauka, pages 168, 169