Jazz

See also: jazz

English

Etymology

A fanciful spelling variant of Jaz and Jas.

Proper noun

Jazz

  1. A diminutive of the male given name James.
    • 2001, Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men, Orion, page 4:
      His real name was James, but those who knew him seemed never to call him that. He was Jamesy, or more often Jazz.
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine.
    • 2012? Madeleine Oh, At Long Last, in The Mammoth Book of Erotica: Volume 4, Constable and Robinson Ltd (2012), →ISBN:
      "He calls you Jazzikins." He would. He had. Couldn't call me Jazz or Jasmine the way everyone else did.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English jazz.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒɛ(ː)s/, (dated, now mostly humorous) /jat͡s/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛs, -ɛːs, -ats

Noun

Jazz m (strong, genitive Jazz, no plural)

  1. jazz (musical art form)

Declension
Declension of Jazz [sg-only, masculine, strong]
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative ein der Jazz
genitive eines des Jazz
dative einem dem Jazz
accusative einen den Jazz

Further reading
  • “Jazz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Jazz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Jazz” in Duden online
  • Jazz on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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