ساحة

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See also: شاخه

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian sḫt (field, open country). Unrelated to سَاحَ (sāḥa, to travel) if that sense as opposed to “to run, to melt” is not denominal from the present noun. Compare رِيف (rīf, countryside, rural land) also borrowed from Egyptian.

Pronunciation

Noun

سَاحَة (sāḥaf (plural سَاحَات (sāḥāt))

  1. field, area
  2. yard, court, courtyard

Declension

Descendants

  • Moroccan Arabic: ساحة (sāḥa)
  • Azerbaijani: sahə
  • Classical Persian: سَاحَت (sāhat)
  • Ottoman Turkish: ساحه
  • Uzbek: soha

References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 370
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “ساحة”, 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
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ساحة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1460