ساقز آغاجی

Ottoman Turkish

ساقز آغاجی

Etymology

From ساقز (sakız, “resin, gum; mastic”) + آغاج (ağac, “tree”).

Noun

ساقز آغاجی • (sakız ağacı)

1. lentisk, mastic, an evergreen shrub or small tree of the species Pistacia lentiscus

Descendants

• Turkish: sakız ağacı
• → Armenian: սախըզ աղաճի (saxəz aġači)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sakız ağacı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4030
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ساقز آغاجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 658
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lentiscus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 934
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ساقز آغاجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2519
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ساقز آغاجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1029