saabi

Gagauz

Cyrillic сааби

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish صاحب (ṣāḥib), from Arabic صَاحِب (ṣāḥib). Cognate with Turkish sahip, Azerbaijani sahib.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saːˈbi/
  • Hyphenation: saa‧bi

Noun

saabi (definite accusative saabiyi, plural saabilär, feminine saabiyka)

  1. owner, possessor, host
  2. lord, master
    Synonyms: çorbacı, bey, gospodar, malik
  3. (religion) Lord, God

Declension

Declension of saabi
singular (tekil) plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın) saabi saabilär
definite accusative (belirtme) saabiyi saabileri
dative (yönelme) saabiyä saabilerä
locative (bulunma) saabidä saabilerdä
ablative (çıkma) saabidän saabilerdän
genitive (tamlayan) saabinin saabilerin

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “saabi”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 546
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