ژاژ

ژاژ • (žāž / žâž) (Tajik spelling жож)

1. (archaic) A tough, insipid variety of artichoke which cannot be chewed or swallowed by the camel
2. (figurative) idle talk, nonsense
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 420:

     مصطفی مه میشکافد نیم شب
     ژاژ میخاید ز کینه بو لهب

     Mustafa mah mē-šikāfad nīm šab
     žāž mē-xāyad za kīna Bū Lahab

     Mustafá (Mohammed) splits the moon at midnight;
     Abú Lahab from hatred talks drivel.

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “ژاژ”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian ژاژ (žāž)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʒɑːʒ/

ژاژ • (źāź) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling झ़ाझ़) (dated or literary)

1. trivial, frivolous, trifling

   Synonym: لَغْو (laġv)

2. absurd, nonsensical; untrue

ژاژ • (źāź) m (Hindi spelling झ़ाझ़) (dated or literary) (uncountable)

1. the Indian globe thistle (Echinops echinatus)

   Synonym: اُون٘ٹ کَٹارا (ū̃ṭ kaṭārā)

2. nonsense, absurdity

   Synonyms: اُوٹ پَٹان٘گ (ūṭ paṭāṅg), ہَرزَہ گوئِی (harza goī), بَکْواس (bakvās), بَکَیتی (bakaitī), زَٹَل (zaṭal), لَغْوِیات (laġviyāt)

3. obscene or indecent speech

   Synonym: فُحش گوئِی (fuhś goī)

• ژَاژْخَا (źāźxā, “blatherskite”)
• ژَاژْخَائِی (źāźxāī, “blather”)
• ژَاژ فَروشِی (źāź farośī, “insults”)
• ژَاژ بَکْنَا (źāź baknā, “to talk nonsense”)

• “ژاژ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• “ژاژ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “ژاژ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• John Shakespear (1834), “ژاژ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC