saaku

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːku/ [ˈsaːkʊ]
• Hyphenation: saa‧ku

sáaku m (plural saakitté f)

1. day
2. morning

sáaku

1. when; in the time when
   • 2006, “Ruut 1:1 [Ruth 1:1]”, in Nabuwwa kee malikwa [Prophets and kings]‎^[1]:

     Makaabon Israayil baaxol dardaarak ten saaku, Israayil baaxol qulul rade.

     When the judges were ruling in the land of Israel, a famine fell upon the land of Israel.

• Mario Capomazza (1907), “saku”, in La lingua degli Afar: Vocabulario Italiano-Dankalo e Dankalo-Italiano [The language of the Afar: Italian-Dankal and Dankal-Italian dictionary], Macerata: Unione Tipografica, page 169
• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “saàku”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Borrowed from Spanish saco (“jacket”), from Latin saccus (“sack”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos), from a Semitic language.

saaku (plural sasku)

1. a type of blouse (clarification of this definition is needed.)

• R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016), Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎^[3] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 148

• shaaku (Cunucunuma River dialect)

• IPA^(key): [saːku]

saaku

1. sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “saaku”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon
• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012), Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 31: “saku”
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 227, 398: “sha:ku 'potato' […] sha:ku - potato”
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “šāku”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[5], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021