# ساج
## Arabic
### Etymology

Compare Aramaic שָׁאגָא / שָׁגָא / ܫܓܐ (šāgā), Persian ساج (sâj). Ultimately from Sanskrit शाक (śāka, “vegetable; herb; teak-tree”); compare vernacular Hindi सागौन (sāgaun, “teak-tree”) and Bengali সেগুন (śegun, “teak-tree”) for the consonantism.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saːd͡ʒ/

### Noun

سَاج • (sāj) m (collective, singulative سَاجَة f (sāja))
* teak tree and wood (Tectona gen. et spp.)

#### Descendants

* → Middle Armenian: սաճ (sač)

### References

* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ساج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 698
* Fleischer, Heinrich (1868) “Nachträgliches”, in Chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Targumim und einen großen Theil des rabbinischen Schriftthums‎ (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, page 577b
* Freytag, Georg (1833) “ساج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 372
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ساج”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 1160
* King, Anya (2015) “The New materia medica of the Islamicate Tradition: The Pre-Islamic Context”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society‎, volume 135, number 3, →DOI, page 510 of 499–528
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “ساج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1459
* Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎ (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 64
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ساج”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 473
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ساج”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 542

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *siāč (“tin, pan”).

#### Alternative forms

* ساچ (saç), صاج (sac)

#### Noun

ساج • (sac)
* pan

##### Descendants

* Turkish: sac
* → Albanian: saç
* → Arabic: صاج (ṣāj)
* → Armenian: սաճ (sač)
* → Aromanian: saciu
* → Bulgarian: сач (sač)
* → Macedonian: сач (sač)
* → Northern Kurdish: sac
* → Persian: ساج (sâj)
* → Serbo-Croatian: sȁč / са̏ч

### Etymology 2

From Persian ساج (sâj) or Arabic سَاج (sāj).

#### Alternative forms

* زاج (zac, zaç)

#### Noun

ساج • (sac, saç)
* teak tree and wood (Tectona gen. et spp.)
    Synonyms: هند چناری (hind çınarı, hint çınarı), هند آردیجی (hind ardıcı, hint ardıcı)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: sac, saç (dated)

### References

* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ساج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2507
* Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “1304. SÁČU”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 170

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [sɑːd͡ʒ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sɑːd͡ʒ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sɑːd͡ʒ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sɑːd͡ʒ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [sɔːd͡ʒ̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [sɒːd͡ʒ̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [sɔd͡ʒ]

### Etymology 1

Ultimately from Sanskrit शाक (śāka, “vegetable; herb; teak-tree”).

#### Noun

ساج • (sâj)
* teak tree and wood (Tectona gen. et spp.)

### Etymology 2

A Turkic borrowing, see Turkish sac / ساج.

#### Noun

ساج • (sâj) (plural ساج‌ها (sâj-hâ))
* griddle