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English

Etymology

Turkish saz, from Persian ???? (sâz).

Noun

saz (plural sazes or sazzes)

1. The baglama.

Translations

Anagrams

• zas

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (s?z, “musical instrument”), from Persian ???? (sâz).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s?z]

Noun

saz (definite accusative saz?, plural sazlar)

1. baglama

Declension

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (s?z, “a stringed musical instrument”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (s?z, “musical instrument”), from Persian ???? (sâz).

Noun

saz (definite accusative saz?, plural sazlar)

1. (music) baglama
2. (music, uncommon) instruments in general

Derived terms

• saz tak?m?
• ince saz
• saz eseri

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (saz, “rush, reed”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (s?z), from Proto-Turkic *si?? (“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 ?????? (sazl?k, “marsh, marshy place, swamp”) was also interpreted as “reed, rush bed”. See Turkish sazl?k (“marshy place, reed bed”), compare Uyghur ??????? (sazliq, “swamp”), Kyrgyz ?????? (sazdak, “swamp”), Turkmen s?zlyk (“reed bed, rubbish place overgrown with plants”).

Noun

saz (definite accusative saz?, plural sazlar)

1. (botany) rush, bulrush; cattail; sedge; reed

Related terms

• sazl?
• sazs?z
• sazl?k

Adjective

saz (comparative daha saz, superlative en saz)

1. (not comparable) made of rushes, bulrushes, cattails, sedge, or reeds
2. (comparable, archaic) pale

Declension

References

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæks/
• Homophones: sacks, Sacks
• Rhymes: -æks

Etymology 1

From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-Germanic *sahs? (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with North Frisian sax (“knife, sword”), Middle Dutch sas (“knife”), Middle Low German sax (“knife”), Middle High German sahs (“a knife”), Danish saks (“a pair of scissors”), Swedish sax (“a pair of scissors”), Icelandic sax (“a short heavy sword”), Latin sec? (“cut”). See also Saxon, saw.

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

1. A slate-cutter's hammer; slate-ax.
2. (obsolete) A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length.

Related terms

Verb

sax (third-person singular simple present saxes, present participle saxing, simple past and past participle saxed)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.

Etymology 2

Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.

Noun

sax (plural saxes)

1. Clipping of saxophone.

Anagrams

• ASX, XAS

Aleut

Noun

sax

1. bird skin coat

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?ks/
• Hyphenation: sax
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophone: Sax

Etymology 1

Borrowed, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sahs? (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). The word also existed in the sixteenth century, but became obsolete and was borrowed again.

Noun

sax c (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

1. sax, short sword, dagger

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sax or less probably a native formation from saxofoon.

Noun

sax m (plural saxen, diminutive saxje n)

1. (informal) sax, saxophone

   Synonym: saxofoon

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sexe, sex, sæx, seax

Etymology

From Old English seax, from Proto-Germanic *sahs?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saks/
• Rhymes: -aks

Noun

sax (plural saxes or saxen)

1. A knife (tool)
2. A knife (weapon)

Descendants

• English: sax, zax

References

• “sax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.

Northern Kurdish

Adjective

sax

1. alive
2. healthy
3. whole

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sahs? (“dagger, knife”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Noun

sax n (genitive sax, plural s?x)

1. a oneedged sword, a backsword
2. (plural only) shears

Declension

Related terms

• saxar m pl (“Saxons”)

Derived terms

• saxa (“to cut with a 'sax'”)
• saxknífr m (“dagger, dirk”)
• saxoddr m (“the point of a 'sax”)

Descendants

References

sax in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English sex, byform of six.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saks/

Numeral

sax

1. six

Related terms

• saxt (“sixth”)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse s?x (plural of sax), from Proto-Germanic *sahs?, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-.

Pronunciation

Noun

sax c

1. a pair of scissors; shears
2. short of saxofon
3. a trap for animals

Declension

Related terms

• altsax
• björnsax
• bultsax
• fårsax
• häcksax
• kökssax
• ljussax
• nagelsax
• plåtsax
• rävsax
• saxa
• saxfiske
• saxning
• saxnäbb
• saxsektion
• saxskänkel
• saxskär
• saxsprint
• sysax
• tenorsax
• trädgårdssax
• ullsax

References

• sax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)