# ساعة
## Arabic
### Etymology

According to Nöldeke, Arabic سَاعَة (sāʕa) and Ge'ez ሰዓት (säʿat), ሳዐት (saʿät) are borrowed from Aramaic שָׁעְתָא / ܫܳܥܬܳܐ (šāʿəṯā). Leslau does not dispute this. Compare Hebrew שָׁעָה (šāʿā́) and Mehri سات.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saː.ʕa/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

سَاعَة • (sāʕa) f (plural سَاعَات (sāʕāt) or سَاع (sāʕ))
* hour (unit of time)
* short time, a while
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:34:فَإِذَا جَاءَ أَجَلُهُمْ لَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ سَاعَةً وَلَا يَسْتَقْدِمُونَfaʔiḏā jāʔa ʔajaluhum lā yastaʔḵirūna sāʕatan walā yastaqdimūnaThere is a [preordained] time for every nation: when their time comes, they shall not defer it by a single hour nor shall they advance it.
* timepiece, clock, watch
* (with the definite article, Islam) judgement day
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 79:42:يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرْسَاهَاyasʔalūnaka ʕani s-sāʕati ʔayyāna mursāhāThey ask you concerning the Hour, “When will it set in?"

#### Derived terms

* صَلَاة السَّاعَات الْكَبِيرَة (ṣalā(t) as-sāʕāt al-kabīra)

#### Descendants

* Maltese: siegħa
* Egyptian Arabic: ساعة (sāʕa)
* Moroccan Arabic: ساعة (sāʕa)
* → Abaza: сахӏат (saḥat)
* → Abkhaz: асааҭ (asaat)
* → Adyghe: сыхьат (səḥat)
* → Avar: сагӏат (saʻat)
* → Chechen: сахьт (saḥʳt)
* → Hausa: sa'a
** → Yoruba: sáà, سَا
* → Indonesian: saat
* → Karaim: саат (saat)
* → Lishana Deni: סאעא (sāʕa)
* → Lithuanian: sahatas
* → Malay: saat, ساعت
* → Middle Armenian: սահաթ (sahatʻ)
** Armenian: սահաթ (sahatʻ)
* → Ossetian: сахат (saxat)
* → Classical Persian: ساعت (sā'at)
** → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܵܥܲܬ (sāʿat)
** → Azerbaijani: saat
** → Bashkir: сәғәт (səğət)
** → Kazakh: сағат (sağat), сәт (sät)
** → Chagatai: ساعت
*** Uyghur: سائەت (sa'et)
*** Uzbek: soat
** → Chuvash: сехет (seh̬et)
** → Georgian: საათი (saati)
*** → Bats: საათ (saat)
** → Kazakh: сағат (sağat)
** → Northern Kurdish: seet
** → Kyrgyz: саат (saat)
** → Ottoman Turkish: ساعت
*** Turkish: saat
*** → Albanian: sahat
*** → Macedonian: са́ат (sáat)
*** → Serbo-Croatian: са̑т/sȃt
** → Tatar: сәгать (sägat’)
** → Turkmen: sagat, сагат
* → Somali: saacad
* → Swahili: saa
** → Iraqw: saa'a
** → Kikuyu: thaa
** → Luo: sa
** → Lingala: sâ
** → Luganda: essaawa
** → Pökoot: saa
** → Rwanda-Rundi: isaha, saa
* → Wolof: saa

### References

* Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 481
* Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 44

## Egyptian Arabic
### Noun

ساعة • (sāʕa) f (plural ساعات (saʕāt))
* hour
* clock, watch
* (definite) the time
    الساعة كام؟ ― is-sāʕa kām ― What time is it? (literally, “how much is the time?”)

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic سَاعَة (sāʕa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saː.ʕa/

### Noun

ساعة • (sāʕa) f (plural ساعات (sāʕāt))
* hour
* clock, watch

#### See also

* سنة (sana)
* شهر (šahar)
* أسبوع (ʔusbūʕ)
* يوم (yōm)
* ساعة (sāʕa)
* دقيقة (dagīga)
* لحظة (laḥẓa)
* ثانية (ṯānya)

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic سَاعَة (sāʕa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saː.ʕa/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ساعة • (sāʕa) f (dual ساعتين (saʕtayn), plural سوايع (swāyiʕ) or ساعات (sāʕāt))
* hour
* clock
* (in the plural) private lessons

### See also

* تانية (tāniya, tānya, “second”)
* دقيقة (dqīqa, “minute”)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic سَاعَة (sāʕa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saː.ʕa/, [ˈsæː.ʕa], [ˈsaː.ʕa]
* Audio (Amman):(file)

### Noun

ساعة • (sāʕa) f (plural ساعات (sāʕāt))
* hour
    قديش الساعة؟ ― ʔaddēš is-sāʕa? ― What time is it? (literally, “How much is the hour?”)
    Audio (Ramallah):(file)
    الساعة تنتين. ― is-sāʕa tintēn ― It's two o'clock. (literally, “The hour [is] two.”)
* clock, watch

#### Usage notes

* Since ساعة (sāʕa) is feminine, واحد (wāḥad) and تنين (tnen) — the only two numbers with gendered forms — display feminine gender agreement when they refer to the hour of day.

#### See also

* سنة (sane)
* شهر (šahr)
* أسبوع (ʔusbūʕ)
* يوم (yōm)
* ساعة (sāʕa)
* دقيقة (daʔīʔa)
* لحظة (laḥẓa)
* ثانية (ṯānye)
Telling time in South Levantine Arabic · الساعة (“is-sāʕa”) (layout · text) :
| تنعش (tnaʕš) | تنعش وخمسة (tnaʕš w-ḵamse) | تنعش وعشرة (tnaʕš w-ʕašara) | تنعش وربع (tnaʕš w-rubʕ) | تنعش وتلت (tnaʕš w-tult) | تنعش ونصّ إلّا خمسة (tnaʕš w-noṣṣ illa ḵamse) |
| تنعش ونصّ (tnaʕš w-noṣṣ) | تنعش ونصّ خمسة (tnaʕš w-noṣṣ ḵamse) | واحدة إلّا تلت (waḥde illa tult) | واحدة إلّا ربع (waḥde illa rubʕ) | واحدة إلّا عشرة (waḥde illa ʕašara) | واحدة إلّا خمسة (waḥde illa ḵamse) |