صاچ

Ottoman Turkish

صاچ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *śač (“hair”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰽𐰲 (sač), Azerbaijani saç, Bashkir сәс (səs), Chuvash ҫӳҫ (śüś), Kazakh шаш (şaş), Kyrgyz чач (cac), Turkmen saç, Uyghur چاچ (chach), Uzbek soch and Yakut ас (as).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sat͡ʃ/

Noun

صاچ • (saç)

1. headhair, fax, hair which grows on the head, singly or in a mass

   Synonyms: شعر (şaʼr), مو (mu)

Coordinate terms

• توی (tüy, “hair on the body”)
• قیل (qıl, “hair, bristle”)

 

Derived terms

• جن صاچی (cin saçı, “beard lichen”)
• صاچ آغارتمق (saç ağartmak, “for hair to turn grey”)
• صاچ آچمق (saç açmak, “to unplait one's hair”)
• صاچ اورمك (saç örmek, “to plait hair”)
• صاچ اوزادان (saç uzadan, “any tendon that can be teazed out into fibres”)
• صاچ باغی (saç bağı, “headband, fillet”)
• صاچ صقال (saç sakal, “hair and beard”)
• صاچ قرقمق (saç kırkmak, “to clip hair”)
• صاچ قیران (saç kıran, “ringworm”)
• صاچ چوزمك (saç çözmek, “to undo one's hair”)
• صاچاق (saçak, “eaves”)
• صاچسز (saçsız, “bald”)
• صاچلی (saçlı, “hairy”)
• صاچی یولمق (saçı yolmak, “to pluck hair”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: saç

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “saç1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4000
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صاچ”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 294a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صاچ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 744
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Crines”, 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 302
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صاچ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2908
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “saç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاچ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1152