سقا

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Ottoman Turkish

سقا

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَقَّاء (saqqāʔ, “water-carrier”).

Noun

سقا • (sakka, saka) (plural سقایون (sakkayun, sakayun))

water carrier, someone who distributes or supplies water for a living
Synonym: صوجی (sucu)
title of a kind of corporal of the old janissaries

Derived terms

آت سقاسی (at sakası, “a water carrier who uses horses”)
سقا بارگیری (saka bargiri, “water-carrying horse”)
سقا قوشی (saka kuşu, “pelican; goldfinch”)
عسكر سقاسی (ʿasker sakası, “military water carrier”)

Descendants

Turkish: saka
→ Armenian: սախա (saxa)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “saka4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4025
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سقا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 271a
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سقا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 682
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Aquator”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 77
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سقا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2631
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “saka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سقا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1063

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَقَّاء (saqqāʔ).

Pronunciation

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(Dari, formal) IPA^(key):
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Readings
Classical reading^?	saqqā
Dari reading^?	saqqā
Iranian reading^?	sağğâ
Tajik reading^?	saqqo

Noun

سقا • (saqqâ)

water carrier
- c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:
  حاجی سقّا را بخواند و وی بیامد و کوزه آب پیش وی داشت، دست فرومی‌کرد و یخ می‌برآورد و می‌خورد […]
  hajjī saqqā rā bixwānd u way biyāmad u kōza-yi āb pēš-i way dāšt, dast furō-mē-kard u yax mē-bar-āward u mē-xward
  The hajji called for the water carrier, and he arrived and placed the water vase in front of him, and he lowered his hand and took out the ice and ate it
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

سقاخانه (saqqâxâne)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سقا”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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