# Mazil

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'''Mazil''' is the name of a [boyar](/source/boyar) of the [landed gentry](/source/landed_gentry) in [Wallachia](/source/Wallachia) and [Moldavia](/source/Moldavia), having no state or  court function. The title of mazil attested that the bearer was of noble origin ("din os boieresc", literally "of boyar bone"). Mazili often formed separate [military](/source/military) [cavalry](/source/cavalry) corps.<ref>[https://dexonline.ro/search.php?cuv=mazil DEX online]</ref> The word derives from Ottoman Turkish ''mazul'' "dismissed (from duty)" and ultimately from Arabic ''maʻzūl''.<ref>[https://dexonline.ro/definitie/mazil 9 definiții pentru mazil], Dexonline (2018).</ref>

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