سجا

• IPA^(key): /sa.d͡ʒaː/

سَجَا • (sajā) I (non-past يَسْجُو (yasjū), verbal noun سَجْو (sajw) or سُجُوّ (sujuww))

1. to be quiet, to be calm
   • c. 700, al-ʾaḵṭal at-taġlibī, ألا سائل الجحاف هل هو ثائر:

     يصولُ بمَجْرٍ لَيْسَ يُحْصى عديدُه
     ويَسْدَرُ مِنْهُ، ساجِياً، كلُّ ناظِرِ

     He encroaches numerously in a number that cannot be counted
     And every beholder is silent and dazzled by him.

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “سجا”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 288
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سجا”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 554

Borrowed from Sogdian 𐼼𐼷𐼿𐼷 (sycy, “sparrow”). Compare also its diminutive 𐼼𐼷𐼿𐼰𐼸𐼸 (sycʾkk). Akin to Yagnobi сича (siča, “bird, sparrow”), сичак (sičak, “sparrow”).^[1]

Clauson suggets a derivation from *seč- (“to choose”), however this is semantically unlikely.

According to Rasanen the Oghur form is an Oghuz borrowing. This would explain the intrusive -r- which is typical of Oghuz (cf. *sep- and *čap-) occuring in Oghur.

سَجا (seçē)

1. sparrow

• → Chuvash: ҫерҫи (śerś̬i)
• Old Anatolian Turkish:
  • Ajem-Turkic:
    • Azerbaijani: sərçə
    • Qashqai: سرچه^[2]
  • Ottoman Turkish: سرچه
    • Turkish: serçe
    • → Armenian: սերչե (serčʻe)
• Salar: sece, seci
• Turkmen: serçe

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 219
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “seçe:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 795
• Levitskaja, L. S., Blagova, G. F., Dybo, A. V., Nasilov, D. M., Pocelujevskij, Je. A. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume VII, Moscow: Vostočnaja literatura, page 267
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 177
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 412
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*serče”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[4], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Gharib, B. (1995) “sycy”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 368

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀲𑀚𑁆𑀚 (sajja), from Sanskrit सज्य (sajya). Cognate with Saraiki سَڄّا (saǰǰā).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /səd͡ʒ.d͡ʒäː/, [sɐd͡ʒ.d͡ʒäː]
• Rhymes: -äː

سَجّا • (sajjā) (Gurmukhi spelling ਸੱਜਾ)

1. right; right-handed

   Synonym: کَھبّا (khabbā)

2. right (ie. correct; truthful)
3. fresh, new

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “سجّا”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਸੱਜਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sajya”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 758

سُجّا • (sujjā) (Gurmukhi spelling ਸੁੱਜਾ)

1. swollen, inflamed, swelled