ساز

From Persian ساز (sâz).

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

• سازجی (sazcı)

• Turkish: saz

• 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^[1], Vienna, columns 2513–2514
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ساز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1027

ساز • (saz)

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

• 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^[3], Vienna, column 2513

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ساز • (sâz)

2. present stem of ساختن (sâxtan, “to make, construct; to compose”)

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

ساز • (sâz) (plural سازها)

2. saz (musical instrument)

• → Azerbaijani: saz
• → 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 script: ਸਾਜ਼ (sāz)
  • Shahmukhi script: ساز (sāz)

• 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 12 May 2016

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَاز (sāz).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sɑːz/
• Rhymes: -ɑːz

ساز • (sāz) m (Hindi spelling साज़)

1. equipment, tool, thing
2. musical instrument

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “ساز”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 737
• Platts, John T. (1884) “ساز”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 625
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ساز”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 364
• “ساز”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “ساز”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1027
• “ساز”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.