ساحة

See also: شاخه

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian sḫt (“field, open country”). Unrelated to سَاحَ (sāḥa, “to travel”) if that sense as opposed to “to run, to melt” is not denominal from the present noun. Compare رِيف (rīf, “countryside, rural land”) also borrowed from Egyptian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saː.ħa/

Noun

سَاحَة • (sāḥa) f (plural سَاحَات (sāḥāt))

1. field, area
2. yard, court, courtyard

Declension

Declension of noun سَاحَة (sāḥa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَاحَة sāḥa	السَّاحَة as-sāḥa	سَاحَة sāḥat
Nominative	سَاحَةٌ sāḥatun	السَّاحَةُ as-sāḥatu	سَاحَةُ sāḥatu
Accusative	سَاحَةً sāḥatan	السَّاحَةَ as-sāḥata	سَاحَةَ sāḥata
Genitive	سَاحَةٍ sāḥatin	السَّاحَةِ as-sāḥati	سَاحَةِ sāḥati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَاحَتَيْن sāḥatayn	السَّاحَتَيْن as-sāḥatayn	سَاحَتَيْ sāḥatay
Nominative	سَاحَتَانِ sāḥatāni	السَّاحَتَانِ as-sāḥatāni	سَاحَتَا sāḥatā
Accusative	سَاحَتَيْنِ sāḥatayni	السَّاحَتَيْنِ as-sāḥatayni	سَاحَتَيْ sāḥatay
Genitive	سَاحَتَيْنِ sāḥatayni	السَّاحَتَيْنِ as-sāḥatayni	سَاحَتَيْ sāḥatay
Plural	sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَاحَات sāḥāt	السَّاحَات as-sāḥāt	سَاحَات sāḥāt
Nominative	سَاحَاتٌ sāḥātun	السَّاحَاتُ as-sāḥātu	سَاحَاتُ sāḥātu
Accusative	سَاحَاتٍ sāḥātin	السَّاحَاتِ as-sāḥāti	سَاحَاتِ sāḥāti
Genitive	سَاحَاتٍ sāḥātin	السَّاحَاتِ as-sāḥāti	سَاحَاتِ sāḥāti

Descendants

• Moroccan Arabic: ساحة (sāḥa)
• → Azerbaijani: sahə
• → Classical Persian: سَاحَت (sāhat)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ساحه
  • Turkish: saha
• → Uzbek: soha

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 370
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ساحة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 372
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ساحة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1460