ساز

See also: سار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Persian ساز (sâz).

Noun

ساز • (saz)

1. means, appliances, equipage
2. goods, effects, substance
3. good works standing to one's credit in heaven
4. learning, talent, ability
5. a stringed instrument, especially the saz or baglama
6. instrumental music, a band

Descendants

• سازجی (sazcı)

Descendants

• Turkish: saz

Further reading

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• 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^[1], Vienna, columns 2513–2514
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ساز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1027

Etymology 2

Noun

ساز • (saz)

1. Alternative spelling of صاز (saz, “rush”)

Further reading

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• 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

Persian

Etymology

Lexicalization of the stem ساز (sâz-) of the verb ساختن (sâxtan, “to make, construct; to compose”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sɑːz]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɑːz]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɑːz]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sɑːz]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sɔːz]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sɒːz]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sɔz]

Readings
Classical reading?	sāz
Dari reading?	sāz
Iranian reading?	sâz
Tajik reading?	soz

Noun

ساز • (sâz) (plural سازها (sâz-hâ))

1. musical instrument

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: saz
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: साज़ (sāz)

  Urdu: ساز (sāz, saz)

• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: saz

• → Ottoman Turkish: ساز (sâz)
  • Turkish: saz
    • English: saz
  • → Middle Armenian: սազ (saz) (or directly from Persian)
    • Armenian: սազ (saz)
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਸਾਜ਼ (sāz)
  • Shahmukhi script: ساز (sāz)

References

• Cabolov, R. L. (2010) “¹sāz”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 251
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-08-11) “saz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-05-12

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ساز (sāz).

Noun

ساز • (sāz) m (Hindi spelling साज़)

1. instrument
2. music
3. musical note