𐰽𐰉𐰲𐰃
sāvçı
Meaning:
messenger
Synonyms:
Examples
Translations
German:
Bote
Russian:
вестник
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
xəbərçi, xəbər gətirən
Turkish (Türkiye):
sözcü, haberci
Bibliography 5
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Международная Тюркская Академия (2016) Древнетюркский словарь508508SABCÏ 1. вестник; 2. прорицатель, предсказатель, вещун, пророк
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Fikret Yıldırım, Erhan Aydın, Risbek Alimov (2013) Yenisey-Kırgızistan Yazıtları ve Irk Bitig507507savçı sözcü, haberci (Mir)
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Marcel Erdal, Jost Gippert, Klaus Röhrborn, Peter Zieme, Irina Nevskaya, Michael Knüppel, Zekine Özertural, Jakob Taube (2001) VATEC-Projektsavčı Meldeläufer
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Talat Tekin (1993) Book of Omens6262s(a)bçı messenger
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Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish785785
D sa:vçı: N.Ag. fr. sa:v; normally ‘messenger’, and so a less distinguished term than yala:vaç (a l.-w., q.v.); but as in this meaning it corresponded to Ar. rasūl it was used by early Moslem Turks for ‘the Prophet’; in this sense it was soon displaced by the Pe. l.-w. payğāmbar and now survives only(?) in NE Tob. sawçı ‘go-between’ R IV 431. Türkü viii ff. a savçı: on a yellow horse and a yala:vaç on a bay horse bring good news IrkB 11; a.o. do. 55: Uyğ. viii ff. Bud. (if we have gone from one town, country, or realm to another as a) (VU) tiŋçi savçı ‘messenger’ (i.e. making mischief) TT IV 10, 21 (tiŋçi is Hap. leg., prob. a N.Ag. fr. a Chinese l.-w.): Xak. xi sa:vçı: ‘a prophet’ (al-rasūl) from among the prophets of God; its base is sa:v meaning ‘news, a statement, a proverb’, and the prophet communicates these things Kaş. III 441 (and see Oğuz); a.o. III 154 (sa:v): KB savçı ‘the Prophet’ (Muḥammad) 30, 388: xiii(?) Tef. savçı ‘prophet’, once in the Hend. yalavaç payğambar savçı 257: xiv Muh.(?) (in a list of occupations) rasūl ‘messenger, envoy’ savçı: Rif. 156 (mis-spelt su:rçı:; Mel. 57, 12 e:lçi:): Oğuz xi sa:vçı: al-rasūl wa huwa’l-sāfir ‘messenger, envoy’, who travels between the families of an intended bridegroom and bride with messages Kaş. III 441; a.o. III 154 (after sa:v) same translation, adding ‘because he reports the statements of one to the other and vice versa, as I have explained’; not here described as Oğuz: Xwar. xiii savçı (with triply dotted wāw) ‘prophet’ ‘Ali 48: Kıp. xiv sawçı: (-c-) ‘one concerned with disputes (mansūb ilā’l-da‘wā), in the sense of differences between two adversaries; such a person must be a qāḍī; and sawçı: is used for ‘prophet’ (al-nabī); they say sawçımız ‘our prophet’ meaning ‘the Prophet’, God bless him İd. 61.
