мезе

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مزه (meze), from Persian مزه (maze, “taste, snack”).

• IPA^(key): [mɛˈzɛ]

мезе́ • (mezé) n

1. (colloquial) meze, snack

• земе- (zeme-)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مزه (meze), from Persian مزه (maze, “taste, snack”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛzɛ]

мезе • (meze) n

1. (colloquial) snack

From Proto-Mordvinic *meźə, compounded from *me- (“what”) and *śe (“this”). Cognates include Erzya мезе (meze), Finnish mikä, Estonian mis, Livonian mis, Northern Sami [Term?] (mii), Eastern Mari мо (mo), Komi-Zyrian мый (myj), Udmurt ма (ma), Northern Khanty мўй (mŭj), Northern Mansi ма̄ныр (mānyr), Hungarian mi.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /mezʲæ/^[1]

мезе • (meze)

1. (interrogative, relative) what
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN

     аш мезе, аш месть ― aš meze , aš mesť ― nothing

     мезе-бъди, кати-мезе ― meze-bədi , kati-meze ― something

     мезевок ― mezevok ― nothing

     лия мезе ― lijä meze ― type (variety/character of something)

     ули мезенкса ― uli mezenksa ― to be worth

• Entry #581 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Entry #59 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

• мѐза

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مزه (meze), from Persian مزه (maze, “taste, snack”). Akin to мезѐтлук.

• IPA^(key): /měze/
• Hyphenation: ме‧зе

мѐзе n (Latin spelling mèze)

1. (regional) snack, bite

• мѐзетити
• замѐзетити

• “мезе”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 462