سقا

Ottoman Turkish

سقا

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. water carrier, someone who distributes or supplies water for a living

   Synonym: صوجی (sucu)

2. 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^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 271a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سقا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], Vienna, column 2631
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “saka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سقا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1063

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَقَّاء (saqqāʔ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [saq.ˈqɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säq.qɑ́ː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säq.qɑ́ː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säq.qɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säq.qɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæʁ.ɢɒ́ː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säq.qɔ́]

Readings
Classical reading?	saqqā
Dari reading?	saqqā
Iranian reading?	sağğâ
Tajik reading?	saqqo

Noun

سقا • (saqqâ)

1. 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 [the hajji] 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