صاز

Ottoman Turkish

صاز

Alternative forms

• ساز (saz)

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)

1. rush, any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus

   Synonyms: اسل (esel), لوخ (luh)

Derived terms

• دیكن صازی (diken sazı, “rush”)
• سپت صازی (sepet sazı, “rush”)
• صازلق (sazlık, “place overgrown with rushes”)

 

Descendants

• Gagauz: saaz
• Turkish: saz
• → Armenian: սազ (saz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “saz3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4105
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صاز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 747
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Juncus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 886
• 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
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “saz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1156