صاپ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *sạp (“handle”).

Noun

صاپ • (sap)

1. handle
2. stem, stalk

Descendants

• Turkish: sap

Etymology 2

Alliterative.

Alternative forms

• صاب (sab)

Particle

صاپ • (sap)

1. 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^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 743b