ساقز

Ottoman Turkish

ساقز

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sakïŕ (“gum, resin”); cognate with Azerbaijani saqqız, Bashkir һағыҙ (hağıź), Chuvash сухӑр (suh̬ăr), Kazakh сағыз (sağyz), Kyrgyz сагыз (sagız), Turkmen sakgyç, Uyghur سېغىز (sëghiz), Uzbek saqich and Yakut ыас (ıas).

Noun

ساقز • (sakız) (definite accusative ساقزی (sakızı), plural ساقزلر (sakızlar))

1. resin, gum, a highly viscous secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees

   Synonyms: راتینج (ratinec), رچینه (reçine)

2. mastic, a hard, brittle, aromatic and transparent resin produced by the mastic-tree

   Synonym: ماستقه (mastıka)

3. masticatory, something chewed, originally as a medicine, now typically for pleasure

Derived terms

• آردج ساقزی (ardıc sakızı, “gum juniper, sandarac”)
• ساقز آطه‌سی (sakız adası, “Chios, a Greek island”)
• ساقز آغاجی (sakız ağacı, “mastic tree, lentisk”)
• ساقز بادمی (sakız bademi, “kind of almond”)
• ساقز دیكنی (sakız dikeni, “distaff thistle”)
• ساقز راقیسی (sakız rakisi, “mastika”)
• ساقز لبلبیسی (sakız leblebisi, “kind of pea roasted with salt”)
• ساقز مرهمی (sakız merhemi, “pitch plaster”)
• ساقزلاندرمق (sakızlandırmak, “to make or let become sticky like mastic”)
• ساقزلانمق (sakızlanmak, “to become sticky like mastic”)
• ساقزلو (sakızlı, “resinous, mixed with resin or mastic”)
• قره ساقز (kara sakız, “pitch”)
• لبان ساقزی (luban sakızı, “benzoin”)
• چام ساقزی (çam sakızı, “pine resin”)
• چكه ساقزی (çeñe sakızı, “a saying that is always in one's mouth”)
• یر ساقزی (yer sakızı, “mineral pitch, bitumen”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sakız
• → Albanian: sakëz
• → Armenian: սախըզ (saxəz)
• → Macedonian: саказ (sakaz)
• → Romanian: sacâz

Proper noun

ساقز

ساقز • (sakız)

1. Chios (an island in the Aegean Sea, Greece)

   Synonym: ساقز آطه‌سی (sakız adası)

Descendants

• Turkish: Sakız
• → Armenian: Սախըզ (Saxəz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sakız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4030
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ساقز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 262a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ساقز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 658
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Resina”, 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 1471
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ساقز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2519
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sakız”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ساقز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1029