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Tez means Fast or Speed in hindi. Fun Fact: In the 1994 Keanu Reeves movie the number plate for his car is 646 TEZ.

• senatorobama 9y ago
  Must be Arabic or Persian in origin...
  • theptip 9y ago
    Persian and Hindi are both Indo-European languages, so they share a common root. (Arabic isn't in that language family). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
    • Manishearth 9y ago
      Languages don't only derive from other languages in their family. Hindi has both Persian and Arabic influences, so it could plausibly be Arabic in origin. It isn't in this case, though.
  • egeozcan 9y ago
    According to the Armenian-Turkish language researcher Sevan Nişanyan[1], it is of Persian origin, with a likely link to the Old Turkish "Tez", which means escaping. Going very off-topic here but it's interesting if you like etymology: In modern Turkish "Tez" means "in a short time", but also "thesis", which we borrowed from French who took it (ultimately) from Old Greek "títhēmi" which is evolved from the root "*dhē-" (to put) in the Proto-Indo-European language. [1]: http://www.nisanyansozluk.com/?k=tez1&lnk=1 http://www.nisanyansozluk.com/?k=tez1&lnk=1
    • senatorobama 9y ago
      Etymology is a great hobby of mine. Another mind-blowing one is the Indian name/attribute 'Deva' and Latin 'divine' both had the same root. Funny to think that Indians and Europeans were once the same people, and probably mixed with the Dravidians to make the modern Indian.