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saz.

rush, bulrush; cattail; sedge; reed

3 characters1 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. rush, bulrush; cattail; sedge; reed

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish صاز (saz, “rush, reed”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sāz), from Proto-Turkic *siāŕ (“marsh, dirt”). Compare Hungarian sár (“mud”), a Turkic borrowing. From an early date “reed”, as a plant growing in marshy environments, replaced the original sense, therefore صازلق (sazlık, “marsh, marshy place, swamp”) was also interpreted as “reed, rush bed”. See Turkish sazlık (“marshy place, reed bed”), compare Uyghur سازلىق (sazliq, “swamp”), Kyrgyz саздак (sazdak, “swamp”), Turkmen sāzlyk (“reed bed, rubbish place overgrown with plants”). Cognates Cognate with Bashkir һаҙ (hað, “swamp, marsh”), Chuvash шур (šur, “swamp”), Kazakh саз (saz, “mud”), Khakas сас (sas, “swamp”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (saz, “swamp”), Kyrgyz саз (saz, “swamp”), Southern Altai сас (sas, “swamp”), Tatar саз (saz, “marsh, swamp”), Turkmen sāz (“reed”), Uyghur ساز (saz, “marsh, bog”), Uzbek soz (“reed, swamp”).

noun

  1. musical instrument

    uncommon

  2. baglama

  3. a musical ensemble, a band of musicians

    uncommon
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ساز (sāz, “a stringed musical instrument”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sāz, “musical instrument”), from Persian ساز (sâz).

adj

  1. made of rushes, bulrushes, cattails, sedge, or reeds

    not-comparable

  2. pale

    archaic · comparable
    Saz benizli
Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish صاز (saz, “rush, reed”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sāz), from Proto-Turkic *siāŕ (“marsh, dirt”). Compare Hungarian sár (“mud”), a Turkic borrowing. From an early date “reed”, as a plant growing in marshy environments, replaced the original sense, therefore صازلق (sazlık, “marsh, marshy place, swamp”) was also interpreted as “reed, rush bed”. See Turkish sazlık (“marshy place, reed bed”), compare Uyghur سازلىق (sazliq, “swamp”), Kyrgyz саздак (sazdak, “swamp”), Turkmen sāzlyk (“reed bed, rubbish place overgrown with plants”). Cognates Cognate with Bashkir һаҙ (hað, “swamp, marsh”), Chuvash шур (šur, “swamp”), Kazakh саз (saz, “mud”), Khakas сас (sas, “swamp”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (saz, “swamp”), Kyrgyz саз (saz, “swamp”), Southern Altai сас (sas, “swamp”), Tatar саз (saz, “marsh, swamp”), Turkmen sāz (“reed”), Uyghur ساز (saz, “marsh, bog”), Uzbek soz (“reed, swamp”).

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