bez

(Inglese)

cloth

Frequenza

C1
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈbez/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish بز (bez); see there for more. The ultimate origin is Arabic بَزّ (bazz), however, an influence from Byzantine Greek βύσσος (bússos) has been postulated in order to explain the mismatch in the vowels.

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