ساقی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic سَاقٍ (sāqin).

Noun

ساقی • (saki) (feminine ساقیه (sakiye), plural سقات (sukat))

  1. cupbearer
  2. distributor of water
    Synonym: صوجی (sucu)
  3. (Sufism) spiritual guide
  • ساقینامه (sakiname, “ode to a cupbearer”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: saki

Further reading

  • Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), “saki”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ساقی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 659a
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ساقی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1029

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَاقٍ (sāqin).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sāqī
Dari reading? sāqī
Iranian reading? sâġi
Tajik reading? soqi

Noun

Dari ساقی
Iranian Persian
Tajik соқӣ

ساقی • (sâqi)

  1. cupbearer
  2. (colloquial, Iran) drug dealer
    Synonyms: موادفروش (mavâd-foruš), فروشنده مواد مخدر (forušande-ye mavâdd-e moxadder)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَاقِی (sāqī), from Arabic سَاقٍ (sāqin).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sɑː.qiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Hyphenation: سَا‧قِی

Noun

سَاقِی • (sāqī) m (female equivalent ساقِیا (sāqiyā), Hindi spelling साक़ी)

  1. cupbearer
  2. water carrier
  3. bartender
  4. hookah-bearer
  5. (Sufism) spiritual guide, sheik
  6. (figuratively) lover

Further reading

More information
  • “ساقی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “ساقی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “ساقی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 364
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “ساقی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 625
  • Fallon, S. W. (1879), “ساقی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 738
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