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語源 1

Borrowed from Hindustani عِزَّت ('izzat) / इज़्ज़त (izzat), from Classical Persian عِزَّت (izzat), from Arabic عِزَّة (ʕizza).

名詞

izzat (uncountable)

1. (North India, Pakistan) Honour, pride; reputation.
   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 29:

     ‘But whether the native swaggers or cringes there's always something behind every remark he makes, always something, and if nothing else he's trying to increase his izzat – in plain Anglo-Saxon, to score.’

   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 10:

     ‘She has cut off our noses. And our izzat.’

語源 2

別の表記

• izat, zat, 'zat

短縮形

izzat

1. (informal) Contraction of is that.