sách

See also: sach, Sach, and šach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sáithech, sáthach (“satisfied, filled, content, of good cheer, flourishing”), from sáith (“sufficiency, as much as one requires, fill (of food); customary meal, appetite”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /sˠɑːx/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /sˠaːx/

Adjective

sách (predicative only)

1. full, sated, satisfied

Derived terms

• mórshách

Descendants

• → Yola: saaughe

Adverb

sách

1. sufficiently, enough

Noun

sách m (genitive singular sáigh, nominative plural sáigh)

1. well-fed person

   Ní thuigeann an sách an seang (proverb)

   It is ill speaking between a full man and a fasting.

Declension

Declension of sách (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative sách sáigh vocative a sháigh a shácha genitive sáigh sách dative sách sáigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an sách na sáigh genitive an tsáigh na sách dative leis an sách don sách leis na sáigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of sách

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sách	shách after an, tsách	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sách”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sáithech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 70

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 冊. Cognate with Muong khách.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sajk̟̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂat̚˦˧˥] ~ [sat̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂat̚˦˥] ~ [sat̚˦˥]

• Audio (Saigon):

  (file)

Noun

(classifier cuốn, quyển) sách

1. book

Derived terms

• mọt sách
• tủ sách
• hiệu sách; nhà sách (“bookstore”)
• giá sách; kệ sách (“bookshelf”)
• ngân sách (“budget”)
• sách giáo khoa (“textbook”)
• sách kinh (“prayer-book”)

Related terms

• (story): chuyện
• thư