ساقية

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Arabic

Root
س ق ي (s q y)
11 terms
ساقِيَة
سَوَاقٍ

Noun

سَاقِيَة (sāqiyaf (plural سَاقِيَات (sāqiyāt) or سَوَاقٍ (sawāqin))

  1. female equivalent of سَاقٍ (sāqin)
    1. female cupbearer
    2. female water carrier
    3. bartendress, barmaid
    4. waitress
  2. runlet, rivulet, ditch
  3. waterwheel, noria, sakia
    Synonyms: سَانِيَة (sāniya), ناعُورَة (nāʕūra), دَالِيَة (dāliya), دَوْلَاب (dawlāb)

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: sieqja
  • Sicilian: saja
  • Moroccan Arabic: ساقية (sāqya)
  • Catalan: séquia
  • English: sakia
  • Italian: saia
  • Spanish: acequia

References

  • ساقية” in Almaany
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ساقية”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1386
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ساقية”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 474
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “ساقية”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 485
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ساقية”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 579

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

Root
س ق ي
2 terms

From Arabic سَاقِيَة (sāqiya).

Pronunciation

Noun

ساقية (sāqyaf (plural ساقيات (sāqyāt) or سواقي (swāqi))

  1. runlet, rivulet, ditch