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Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ساج (sac).
Noun
sȁč m (Cyrillic spelling са̏ч)
- iron pan for baking bread
Declension
Etymology 2
The same word as above, from the plant’s being sodden in iron pans.
Noun
sȁč m (Cyrillic spelling са̏ч)
- (Dalmatia, Bosnia) woad (plant and dye)
1984, Alberto Fortis, translated by Mate Maras and Darko Novaković, Put po Dalmaciji, Zagreb: Globus, page 43:Tako dobivaju i lijepu tamnomodru boju miješanjem sača sušena u hladovini s vrlo čistom cijeđi; i ta smjesa vri nekoliko sati, pa se zatim pusti da se ohladi prije nego što se u nju ubace sukna za bojenje.- So one adds also fair dark blue dye mingling dried woad in the shade with very clean lye; and this mixture boils for a few hours, for it is then left to cool before cloth is cast into it for dying.
Declension
References
- “sač” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- “sač” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Skok, Petar (1973) “sač”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 182