ساج

Arabic

ساج

Etymology

Compare Aramaic שָׁאגָא / שָׁגָא /‎ ܫܓܐ (šāgā), Persian ساج (sâj). Ultimately from Indo-Aryan languages, compare Hindi सागौन (sāgaun) and Bengali সেগুন (śegun). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saːd͡ʒ/

Noun

سَاج • (sāj) m (collective, singulative سَاجَة f (sāja))

1. teak tree and wood (Tectona gen. et spp.)

Declension

Declension of noun سَاج (sāj)

Collective	basic collective triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَاج sāj	السَّاج as-sāj	سَاج sāj
Nominative	سَاجٌ sājun	السَّاجُ as-sāju	سَاجُ sāju
Accusative	سَاجًا sājan	السَّاجَ as-sāja	سَاجَ sāja
Genitive	سَاجٍ sājin	السَّاجِ as-sāji	سَاجِ sāji
Singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَاجَة sāja	السَّاجَة as-sāja	سَاجَة sājat
Nominative	سَاجَةٌ sājatun	السَّاجَةُ as-sājatu	سَاجَةُ sājatu
Accusative	سَاجَةً sājatan	السَّاجَةَ as-sājata	سَاجَةَ sājata
Genitive	سَاجَةٍ sājatin	السَّاجَةِ as-sājati	سَاجَةِ sājati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَاجَتَيْن sājatayn	السَّاجَتَيْن as-sājatayn	سَاجَتَيْ sājatay
Nominative	سَاجَتَانِ sājatāni	السَّاجَتَانِ as-sājatāni	سَاجَتَا sājatā
Accusative	سَاجَتَيْنِ sājatayni	السَّاجَتَيْنِ as-sājatayni	سَاجَتَيْ sājatay
Genitive	سَاجَتَيْنِ sājatayni	السَّاجَتَيْنِ as-sājatayni	سَاجَتَيْ sājatay
Paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَاجَات sājāt	السَّاجَات as-sājāt	سَاجَات sājāt
Nominative	سَاجَاتٌ sājātun	السَّاجَاتُ as-sājātu	سَاجَاتُ sājātu
Accusative	سَاجَاتٍ sājātin	السَّاجَاتِ as-sājāti	سَاجَاتِ sājāti
Genitive	سَاجَاتٍ sājātin	السَّاجَاتِ as-sājāti	سَاجَاتِ sājāti

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: սաճ (sač)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ساج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 698
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ساج”, 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 372
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ساج”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1160
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ساج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1459
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ساج”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 473
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ساج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 542

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Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• ساچ‎ (saç), صاچ (saç), صاج (sac)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *siāč (“tin, pan”).

Noun

ساج • (sac)

1. pan

Descendants

• Turkish: sac
• → Albanian: saç
• → Arabic: صاج (ṣāj)
• → Armenian: սաճ (sač)
• → Aromanian: saciu
• → Bulgarian: сач (sač)
• → Persian: ساج (sâj)
• → Kurdish: sac
• → Serbo-Croatian: sȁč / са̏ч

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ساج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[7], Vienna, column 2507
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1304. SÁČU”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[8], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 170

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Persian

ساج

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ساج • (sâj)

1. teak tree and wood (Tectona gen. et spp.)

Etymology 2

A Turkic borrowing, see Turkish sac /‎ ساج. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. .

Noun

ساج • (sâj) (plural ساج‌ها (sâj-hâ))

1. griddle