صاپ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *sạp (“handle”).

Noun

صاپ • (sap)

handle
stem, stalk

Descendants

Turkish: sap

Etymology 2

Alliterative.

Alternative forms

صاب (sab)

Particle

صاپ • (sap)

An intensifier used with certain adjectives beginning with ص and a back vowel.
صاپ صاری ― sapsarı ― very yellow

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صاپ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 743b

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