Aziz

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{{Infobox name

| name = Aziz

| image = Siria, regione di hauran o tell halaf, divinità armata su un dromedario, forse allat o azizos, I-III sec..JPG

| caption = Azizos, the god of the morning star

| romanisation =

| pronunciation = {{IPAc-en|aɪ|z|i|z}} {{respell|AE|zeez}}

| gender = male

| feminine = {{hlist|Azizah|Muazzez}}

| meaning = 'reputable, powerful, sublime'

| region = Middle East

| language = Assyrian (Aramaic; Akkadian), Arabic, Armenian, Balochi, Bengali, Chechen, Dari, Gujarati, Hebrew, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Somali, Turkish, Urdu, Zazaki

| languageorigin = Semitic

| nickname = {{hlist|Azo|Azzy|Zyzz}}

| variant forms = {{hlist|Azaz|Azizus|Ezizu}}

| related names = Azizos

}}

{{wiktionary|عزيز|עזיז}}

Aziz ({{langx|ar|عزيز|ʿAzīz}}; {{langx|he|עָזִז|ʿAzīz}}; {{Langx|akk|𒀀𒍣𒍪|ʿEzīzū}}) is a Semitic name from the root two-zayin.{{cite web |title=Aziz |url=https://www.thebump.com/b/aziz-baby-name |publisher=thebump.com |access-date=27 August 2024}} In the Hebrew Bible, the root two-zayin ({{Script/Hebr|ז-ז}}) means 'reputable, powerful, sublime'.{{cite book |last1=Koehler |first1=Ludwig |last2=Baumgartner |first2=Walter |title=The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament |publisher=Brown–Driver–Briggs |url=https://dictionaries.brillonline.com/halot}} In the 1 Chronicles, Aziz was the son of Shema and the father of Bela.{{Bibleverse|1 Chronicles|5:8}} Azizus (Latinised), attested as an Arabian king who ruled Sampsigeramids of the Roman Empire.{{cite book |title=The Arabs In Antiquity Their History From The Assyrians To The Umayyads |page=409 |url=https://archive.org/details/the-arabs-in-antiquity-their-history-from-the-assyrians-to-the-umayyads |access-date=27 August 2024 |quote=Later rulers are called 'kings of the Emesenians', although they carry good Arabic names like Azizus (Aziz) and Sohaemus.}}

In ancient Levantine mythology, Azizos is a god of the morning star of Aramaic and Arab origin from Palmyra.{{Cite book|title=Cults and Beliefs at Edessa|last=Drijvers|first=H. J. W.|publisher=Brill Publishers|year=2015|isbn=978-90-04-29562-9|pages=Chapter Six: THE CULT OF AZIZOS AND MONIMOS AND OTHER ARAB DEITIES}} The Arabian goddess Al-Uzza, related to the planet Venus, is named from the same root.Distant WL (1909) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8(3): 317-345. Al-ʿAzīz is one of the names of God in Islam.{{Cite Quran|3|6|style=nosup}} ʿAzīz without al- is used as a royal title borne by the high nobles of Ancient Egypt.{{Cite Quran|4|158|style=nosup}}, {{Cite Quran|9|40|style=nosup|begin=no}}

It is used in existing Semitic languages (Arabic, Hebrew, neo-Aramaic, Mandaic, Maltese) and has also spread to non-Semitic language families like Berber languages, Caucasus languages, Iranian languages, and Turkic languages. Aziz is a common masculine given name, especially in the Muslim world, but it has also continued to be used by non-Muslim peoples in the Middle East, like Jews, Assyrians, Armenians, etc.