روز

See also: ژور, ژوژ, روژ, زور, رور, and زوز

Andalusian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz), a variant of Arabic رُزّ (ruzz).

Noun

رَوْز (rawz)

1. rice

Descendants

• → Asturian: arroz
• → Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: arroz
  • Portuguese: arroz
    • → Kaingang: aronh
• → Old Spanish: arroz
  • Spanish: arroz
    • → Navajo: alóós
    • → Ye'kwana: ado
  • Ladino: arroz

References

• Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 222

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Iranian *wrinǰišder.

Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza)bor.

Arabic رُزّ (ruzz)

Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz)

Moroccan Arabic روز

From Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz), a variant of Arabic رُزّ (ruzz).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ruːz/

Noun

روز • (rūz) m (collective)

1. rice

Descendants

• → Tarifit: aṛṛuẓ

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *lewk-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ráwčas

Proto-Iranian *ráwčah

Old Persian 𐎼𐎢𐎨𐏃 (r-u-c-h)

Middle Persian 𐭩𐭥𐭬 (yʿm)

Persian روز

Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭩𐭥𐭬 (yʿm), from Old Persian 𐎼𐎢𐎨𐏃 (r-u-c-h), from Proto-Iranian *ráwčah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ráwčas. Compare Indo-Iranian cognates Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬗𐬀𐬵 (raocah, “light, day”)) and Sanskrit रोचते (rocate, “to shine, to be bright”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɾoːz]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [roːz]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [roːz]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [roːz]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rʊːz]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹuːz]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾɵz]

Readings
Classical reading?	rōz
Dari reading?	rōz
Iranian reading?	ruz
Tajik reading?	rüz

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Noun

Dari	روز
Iranian Persian
Tajik	рӯз

روز • (rōz / ruz) (plural روزها or روزان)

1. day

   ۳ روز است که پدرشان گم شده.

   Se ruz ast ke pedarešân gom šode. (more literary)

   ۳ روزه که پدرشون گم شده.

   Se ruz-e ke pedarešun gom šode. (more colloquial)

   Their father's been missing for three days.

   (Literally, “It is three days that their father has gone missing.”)

2. daylight
3. daytime

Derived terms

• امروز (imrōz / emruz)
• بهروز (bihrōz / behruz)
• دیروز (dīrōz / diruz)
• روزانه (rōzāna / ruzâne)
• روزبه‌روز (rōz-ba-rōz / ruz-be-ruz)
• روزمره (rōzmarra / ruzmarre)
• روزنامه (rōznāma / ruznâme)
• روزه (rōza / ruze)
• روزگار (rōzgār / ruzgâr)
• روزی (rōzī / ruzi)
• روزی روزگاری (rōzē rōzgārī / ruzi ruzgâri)
• شهروز (šahrōz / šahruz)
• نوروز (nawrōz / nowruz)
• نیمروز (nīmrōz / nimruz)

Descendants

• → Old Gujarati: रोज (roja)
  • Gujarati: રોજ (roj)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: रोज़ (roz)

  Urdu: روز (roz)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਰੋਜ਼ (roz)

  Shahmukhi script: روز (roz)

• → Telugu: రోజు (rōju)
• → Tamil: ரோஜ் (rōj)
• → Bengali: রোজ (rōj)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Iranian *wrinǰišder.

Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza)bor.

Arabic رُزّ (ruzz)

Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz)

South Levantine Arabic روز

From Arabic *رَوْز (*rawz), a variant of Arabic رُزّ (ruzz).

Noun

روز • (rōz) m (collective, singulative روزة f (rōze))

1. Alternative form of رزّ (rozz)

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *lewk-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ráwčas

Proto-Iranian *ráwčah

Old Persian 𐎼𐎢𐎨𐏃 (r-u-c-h)

Middle Persian 𐭩𐭥𐭬 (yʿm)

Classical Persian روز (rōz)bor.

Urdu روز (roz)

Borrowed from Classical Persian روز (rōz).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾoːz/
• Rhymes: -oːz

Noun

روز • (roz) m (Hindi spelling रोज़)

1. daily, everyday

   Synonym: روزانہ (rozāna)

2. day

   Synonyms: دن (din), یوم (yaum)

3. period, age, time

   Synonym: زمانہ (zāmāna)

Adverb

روز • (roz)

1. daily
2. always

Further reading

• “روز”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “روز”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “روز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu روزہ (rōzah).

Noun

روز (rōz)

1. fasting