مویز

• میویز (maywīz / meyviz), میمیز (maymīz / meymiz)

From Middle Persian *maywēz, from Proto-Iranian *madwī-ča-, analyzable as می (mey, “wine”) + an unknown second element. Compare Northern Kurdish mêwîj (“raisin”), Mazanderani ممیج (mamij, “raisin”), and Pashto ممیز (mamiz, “raisin”).

مویز • (mawīz / maviz, meviz) (Tajik spelling мавиз)

1. raisin, currant

   Synonym: کشمش (kišmiš / kešmeš)

• میویزه (maywīza / meyvize), میویژه (maywīža / meyviže), مویزه (mawīza / mavize), میویزک (maywīzak / meyvizak), مویزک (mawyizak / mowyezak, inherited diminutives also used as plant names passed into Arabic مَيْوِيزَج (maywīzaj, “stavesacre”) and Classical Syriac ܡܝܘܝܙܓ (mīwēzag, “grapes”))

• مو (maw / mow, “vine”), میوه (mēwa / mive, “fruit”)

• → Azerbaijani: məviz, meviz, meviç, mövüz, standard mövüc
• → Kazakh: мейіз (meiız)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مویز (meviz)
• → Uzbek: mayiz

• Edelʹman, D. I. (2015), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 118-9
• Michael Jan de Goeje, editor (1879), Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad part. I–III (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 7)‎^[1] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1879, page 359, to آبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الإصطخري (a. 957), Michael Jan de Goeje, editor, كتاب مسالك الممالك وهو معول على كتاب صور الأقاليم [kitāb masālik al-mamālik wa-huwa muʿawwal ʿalā kitāb ṣuwar al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 1)‎^[2] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1870, page 19 e and آبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الإصطخري (a. 957), Michael Jan de Goeje, editor, كتاب مسالك الممالك وهو معول على كتاب صور الأقاليم [kitāb masālik al-mamālik wa-huwa muʿawwal ʿalā kitāb ṣuwar al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 1)‎^[3] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1870, page 201 c
• Horn, Paul (1893), Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 225 Nr. 1003
• Lagarde, Paul de (1866), Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 63 Nr. 24
• Löw, Immanuel (1881), Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[4] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, →DOI, page 91
• Löw, Immanuel (1881), Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[5] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, →DOI, page 140
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “مویز”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[6] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1234a
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “میویز”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[7] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1260a
• “mywyzg”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, Brockelmann, Carl (1928), Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 383