ساج

Arabic

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 (śegun, teak-tree) for the consonantism.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saːd͡ʒ/

Noun

سَاج • (sājm (collective, singulative سَاجَة f (sāja))

  1. 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[1] (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[2] (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[3] (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[4] (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[5], volume 135, number 3, →DOI, page 510 of 499–528
  • Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “ساج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1459.
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen[6] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, →DOI, page 64
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ساج”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[7], London: W.H. Allen, page 473
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ساج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[8] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 542

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *siāč (tin, pan).

Alternative forms

Noun

ساج • (sac)

  1. 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

Noun

ساج • (sac, saç)

  1. teak tree and wood (Tectona gen. et spp.)
    Synonyms: هند چناری (hind çınarı, hint çınarı), هند آردیجی (hind ardıcı, hint ardıcı)
Descendants

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[9], Vienna, column 2507
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1304. SÁČU”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎[10], 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 [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 170

Persian

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sāj
Dari reading? sāj
Iranian reading? sâj
Tajik reading? soj

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Sanskrit शाक (śāka, vegetable; herb; teak-tree).

Noun

ساج • (sâj)

  1. teak tree and wood (Tectona gen. et spp.)

Etymology 2

A Turkic borrowing, see Turkish sac / ساج.

Noun

ساج • (sâj) (plural ساج‌ها)

  1. griddle