ساعت

See also: شاعت

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic سَاعَة (sāʕa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sa(ʔ)at]
• Rhymes: -aʔat, -ʔat, -at

Noun

ساعت (Rumi spelling saat, plural ساعت-ساعت or ساعت۲, informal 1st possessive ساعتکو, 2nd possessive ساعتمو, 3rd possessive ساعتڽ)

1. second (unit of time)

Synonyms

• detik / دتيق

Ottoman Turkish

ساعت

Etymology

From Arabic سَاعَة (sāʕa, “hour; clock, watch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɑ̈ˈʔɑ̈t]

Noun

ساعت • (saʾat) (plural ساعات (saʾat))

1. hour, a time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day
2. watch, clock, an instrument that measures the time of day

Derived terms

• آصمه ساعت (asma saʾat, “Dutch clock”)
• ساعت باشی (saʾat başı, “the first minutes of an hour”)
• ساعتجی (saʾatci, “watchmaker”)
• ساعتلك (saʾatlik, “shelf on which a clock stands”)
• قوم ساعتی (kum saʾati, “hourglass”)
• گونش ساعتی (güneş saʾati, “sundial”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: saat
• → Laz: საატი (saaťi), საჲეტი (sayeťi); საჲეტტი (sayeťťi); საეტი (saeťi)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: са̑т

  Latin script: sȃt

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “saat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3992
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ساعت”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 261b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ساعت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 658
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Horologium”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 706
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ساعت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2516
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “saat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ساعت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1028

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic سَاعَة (sāʕa).

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sɑː.ʔat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɑː.ʔät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɑː.ʔät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sɑːt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sɔːät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sɒː.ʔæt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sɔ.ʔät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	sā'at
Dari reading?	sā'at
Iranian reading?	sâ'at
Tajik reading?	soʾat

Noun

Dari	ساعت, بجه
Iranian Persian	ساعت
Tajik	соат

ساعَت • (sâ'at) (plural ساعت‌ها (sâ'at-hâ) or ساعات (sâ'ât))

1. hour; o’clock; (by extension) time

   Synonym: (less common) تَسو (tasu)

   دو ساعت ― do sâ'at ― two hours

   نیم ساعت ― nim sâ'at ― half an hour

   ساعتِ دو ― sâ'at-e do ― two o’clock

   ساعت چند است؟ — ساعت یک است. (literary)

   sâ'at čand ast? — sâ'at yek ast.

   ساعت چنده؟ — ساعت یکه. (colloquial)

   sâ'at čand-e? — sâ'at yek-e.

   What time is it? — It's one o'clock.

   چه ساعتی شام بخوریم؟

   če sâ'ati šâm boxorim?

   What time should we have dinner?

   نیم ساعتی استراحت کردیم.

   nim sâ'ati esterâhat kardim.

   We rested for half an hour or so.

   • c. 1080, Kaykāwūs, Qābūs-nāma:

     روز حرب چون چشم بر لشکر خصم افگنی و هر دو لشکر روی بیکدیگر نهند خنده‌ناک باش و با لشکر خویش همی گوی که چه سگان باشند اینها؟ یک ساعت دمار ازیشان برآوریم.

     rōz-i harb čūn čašm bar laškar-i xasm afganī u har du laškar rōy ba yakdīgar nahand xanda-nāk bāš u bā laškar-i xwēš hamē gūy ki či sagān bāšand īnhā? yak sā'at damār az ēšān bar-awārēm.

     When your eyes fall upon the enemy army on the day of battle and both armies face each other, be humorous and keep saying to your own army, "What kind of dogs are these? We'll take care of them in just an hour."

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. watch; clock

   ساعتش را تعمیر کردم.

   sâ'at-aš râ ta'mir kardam.

   I repaired his watch/clock.

Synonyms

• بجه (baja) (Dari)

Derived terms

• ساعت دار (sâ'at-dâr)
• ساعت ساز (sâ'at-sâz)
• ساعت سازی (sâ'at-sâzi)
• ساعت شمار (sâ'at-šomâr)

 

Descendants

• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܵܥܲܬ (sāʿat)
• → Azerbaijani: saat
• → Bashkir: сәғәт (səğət)
• → Kazakh: сағат (sağat), сәт (sät)
• → Chagatai: ساعت
  • Uyghur: سائەت (sa'et)
  • Uzbek: soat
• → Chuvash: сехет (seh̬et)
• → Georgian: საათი (saati)
  • → Bats: საათ (saat)
• → Kazakh: сағат (sağat)
• → Northern Kurdish: seet
• → Kyrgyz: саат (saat)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ساعت
  • Turkish: saat
  • → Albanian: sahat
  • → Macedonian: са́ат (sáat)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: са̑т/sȃt
• → Tatar: сәгать (sägat’)
• → Turkmen: sagat, сагат

See also

• ثانیه (sâniye, “second”)
• دقیقه (daqiqe, “minute”)