ساج
Arabic
ساج
Etymology
Compare Aramaic שָׁאגָא / שָׁגָא / ܫܓܐ (šāgā), Persian ساج (sâj). Ultimately from Sanskrit शाक (śāka, “vegetable; herb; teak-tree”); compare vernacular Hindi सागौन (sāgaun, “teak-tree”) and Bengali সেগুন (segun, “teak-tree”) for the consonantism.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /saːd͡ʒ/
Noun
سَاج • (sāj) m (collective, singulative سَاجَة f (sāja))
- teak tree and wood (Tectona gen. et spp.)
Declension
Declension of noun سَاج (sāj)
| Collective | basic collective triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | سَاج sāj | السَّاج as-sāj | سَاج sāj |
| Nominative | سَاجٌ sājun | السَّاجُ as-sāju | سَاجُ sāju |
| Accusative | سَاجًا sājan | السَّاجَ as-sāja | سَاجَ sāja |
| Genitive | سَاجٍ sājin | السَّاجِ as-sāji | سَاجِ sāji |
| Singulative | singulative triptote in ـَة (-a) | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | سَاجَة sāja | السَّاجَة as-sāja | سَاجَة sājat |
| Nominative | سَاجَةٌ sājatun | السَّاجَةُ as-sājatu | سَاجَةُ sājatu |
| Accusative | سَاجَةً sājatan | السَّاجَةَ as-sājata | سَاجَةَ sājata |
| Genitive | سَاجَةٍ sājatin | السَّاجَةِ as-sājati | سَاجَةِ sājati |
| Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
| Informal | سَاجَتَيْن sājatayn | السَّاجَتَيْن as-sājatayn | سَاجَتَيْ sājatay |
| Nominative | سَاجَتَانِ sājatāni | السَّاجَتَانِ as-sājatāni | سَاجَتَا sājatā |
| Accusative | سَاجَتَيْنِ sājatayni | السَّاجَتَيْنِ as-sājatayni | سَاجَتَيْ sājatay |
| Genitive | سَاجَتَيْنِ sājatayni | السَّاجَتَيْنِ as-sājatayni | سَاجَتَيْ sājatay |
| Paucal (3-10) | sound feminine paucal | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | سَاجَات sājāt | السَّاجَات as-sājāt | سَاجَات sājāt |
| Nominative | سَاجَاتٌ sājātun | السَّاجَاتُ as-sājātu | سَاجَاتُ sājātu |
| Accusative | سَاجَاتٍ sājātin | السَّاجَاتِ as-sājāti | سَاجَاتِ sājāti |
| Genitive | سَاجَاتٍ sājātin | السَّاجَاتِ as-sājāti | سَاجَاتِ sājāti |
Descendants
- → Middle Armenian: սաճ (sač)
References
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ساج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 698
- Fleischer, Heinrich (1868), “Nachträgliches”, in Chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Targumim und einen großen Theil des rabbinischen Schriftthums (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, page 577b
- Freytag, Georg (1833), “ساج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 372
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ساج”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1160
- King, Anya (2015), “The New materia medica of the Islamicate Tradition: The Pre-Islamic Context”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 135, issue 3, DOI:, page 510 of 499–528
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “ساج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1459
- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 64
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ساج”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 473
- Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ساج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 542
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Turkic *siāč (“tin, pan”).
Alternative forms
- ساچ (saç), صاچ (saç), صاج (sac)
Noun
ساج • (sac)
- pan
Descendants
- Turkish: sac
- → Albanian: saç
- → Arabic: صاج (ṣāj)
- → Armenian: սաճ (sač)
- → Aromanian: saciu
- → Bulgarian: сач (sač)
- → Macedonian: сач (sač)
- → Northern Kurdish: sac
- → Persian: ساج (sâj)
- → Serbo-Croatian: sȁč / са̏ч
Etymology 2
From Persian ساج (sâj) or Arabic سَاج (sāj).
Alternative forms
- زاج (zac, zaç)
Noun
ساج • (sac, saç)
- teak tree and wood (Tectona gen. et spp.)
- Synonyms: هند چناری (hind çınarı, hint çınarı), هند آردیجی (hind ardıcı, hint ardıcı)
Descendants
- Turkish: sac, saç (dated)
References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “ساج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2507
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “1304. SÁČU”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 170
Persian
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ساج
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Sanskrit शाक (śāka, “vegetable; herb; teak-tree”).
Noun
ساج • (sâj)
- teak tree and wood (Tectona gen. et spp.)
Etymology 2
A Turkic borrowing, see Turkish sac / ساج.
Noun
ساج • (sâj) (plural ساج‌ها (sâj-hâ))
- griddle