صاز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *siāŕ (“marsh, dirt”); cognate with Azerbaijani saz, Bashkir [script needed] (haδ), Chuvash шур (šur), Kazakh саз (saz), Tatar саз (saz), Turkmen sāz, Uyghur ساز (saz) and Uzbek soz.

Noun

صاز • (saz) (definite accusative صازی (sazı), plural صازلر (sazlar))

  1. rush, any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers
    Synonyms: اسل (esel), لوخ (luh)
  2. reed, any of various types of tall, stiff, perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water
    Synonyms: قامش (kamış), قصب (kasab), كلیز (kiliz), نی (ney)

Derived terms

  • حصیر صازی (hasır sazı, “bulrush”)
  • دكز صازی (deñiz sazı, “seaweed, kelp”)
  • دیكن صازی (diken sazı, “rush”)
  • سمرجی صازی (semerci sazı, “rush”)
  • سپت صازی (sepet sazı, “rush”)
  • صاز اورمانی كبی (saz ormanı gibi, “numerous, boundless”, literally “like a forest of rushes”)
  • صازلق (sazlık, “reed bed”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: saz
  • → Albanian: sasë
  • → Armenian: սազ (saz)
  • → Ubykh: саӡ (sadz)

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