Etymology

tazia

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Today it means: A representation of the tombs of Hasan and Husayn (the grandsons of Muhammad), carried in the South Asian and Indo-Caribbean Shiite processions of Muharram. Full definition →

Arabic تَعْزِيَة ← Urdu تَعْزِیَہ
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The story

  1. Urdu · borrowed fromتَعْزِیَہ
  2. Arabic · derived fromتَعْزِيَة“consolation, mourning”
  3. English todaytazia

From Arabic تَعْزِيَة (taʕziya, “consolation, mourning”). Sense 1 was borrowed through Urdu تَعْزِیَہ (ta'ziya).

Words from the same roots

Arabicتَعْزِيَة all →

ta'ziyeh

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.