sahi
Possibly from the onomatopoeic verb sahista.
sahi (dialectal)
Inflection of sahi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | sahi | sahit | |
genitive | sahin | sahien | |
partitive | sahia | saheja | |
illative | sahiin | saheihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sahi | sahit | |
accusative | nom. | sahi | sahit |
gen. | sahin | ||
genitive | sahin | sahien | |
partitive | sahia | saheja | |
inessive | sahissa | saheissa | |
elative | sahista | saheista | |
illative | sahiin | saheihin | |
adessive | sahilla | saheilla | |
ablative | sahilta | saheilta | |
allative | sahille | saheille | |
essive | sahina | saheina | |
translative | sahiksi | saheiksi | |
abessive | sahitta | saheitta | |
instructive | — | sahein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صحیح (ṣaḥîḥ),[1][2] from Arabic صَحِيح (ṣaḥīḥ, “complete, sound, correct, authentic”), from صَحَّ (ṣaḥḥa, “to be healthy, to be correct”). Deviated semantically from sahih (“authentic, original”) in 1920s.[3]
sahi