ساز

ساز

See also: سار‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Persian ساز‎ (sâz).

Noun

ساز • (saz)

1. means, appliances, equipage
2. goods, effects, substance
3. good works standing to one's credit in heaven
4. learning, talent, ability
5. a stringed instrument, especially the saz or baglama
6. instrumental music, a band

Descendants

• سازجی‎ (sazcı)

Descendants

• Turkish: saz

Further reading

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• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “ساز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2513–2514
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ساز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1027

Noun

ساز • (saz)

1. Alternative spelling of صاز‎ (saz, “rush”)

Further reading

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• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “ساز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2513

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Persian

Etymology

Lexicalization of the stem ساز (sâz-) of the verb ساختن‎ (sâxtan, “to make, construct; to compose”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /sɑːz/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /sɑːz/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /sɒːz/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /sɔz/

Noun

ساز • (sâz) (plural سازها‎ (sâz-hâ))

1. musical instrument

Descendants

• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: साज़ (sāz)
  • Urdu: ساز‎ (sāz, saz)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: saz

• → Ottoman Turkish: ساز‎ (sâz)
  • Turkish: saz
    • English: saz
  • → Middle Armenian: սազ (saz) (or directly from Persian)
    • Armenian: սազ (saz)
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi: ਸਾਜ਼ (sāz)
  • Shahmukhi: ساز‎ (sāz)

References

• Cabolov, R. L. (2010), “¹sāz”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 251
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-08-11), “saz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-05-12

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian ساز‎ (sāz).

Noun

ساز • (sāz) m (Hindi spelling साज़)

1. instrument
2. music
3. musical note