saw

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• Received-Pronunciation: sô
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• Received-Pronunciation: /sɔː/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /soː/
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• cot-caught-merger: /sɑ/
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• cot-caught-merger: sä
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• US: sô
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• Scotland: /sɔ/
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• /sɑl/ rare, idiosyncratic, past tense of see (for example, as used by Dina Cappiello of the Associated Press)
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• rhymes with -ɔː
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• homophone: soar
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• homophone: sore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
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From Arabic

Abbreviation.

Various origins: * English metonymic occupational surname for a sawyer, from saw. Compare Sawyer. * Borrowed from Hindi साव (sāv); this surname is predominantly found in Jharkhand state. * Borrowed from Burmese စော (cau:), a nickname meaning "honorable".

The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk sag (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”). The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sekw- Proto-Germanic *sagǭ Proto-West Germanic *sagā Old English saga Middle English sawe English saw From Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, saga (“story, tale, saying, statement, report, narrative, tradition”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekwe-, *skwē-, from *sekw- (“to say”). Cognate with Dutch sage (“saga”), German Sage (“legend, saga, tale, fable”), Danish sagn (“legend”), Norwegian soga (“story”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”). More at saga, say. Doublet of saga.

299 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aghwan: 𐕀𐔴𐕀𐔴𐕙 (xexer) — tool
• Albanian: sharrë — tool
• Southern Altai: кирее (kiree) — tool
• Southern Altai: бычак (bïčak) — tool
• Arabic: مِنْشَار (minšār) — tool
• Arabic: منشار (minšār) — tool
• Aramaic: ܡܣܪܐ (massārā) — tool
• Armenian: սղոց (sġocʻ) — tool
• Aromanian: sharã — tool
• Assamese: কৰত (korot) — tool
• Asturian: sierra — tool
• Azerbaijani: mişar — tool
• Baluchi: ہرگ (harrag) — tool
• Bashkir: бысҡы (bısqı) — tool
• Basque: zerra — tool
• Belarusian: піла́ (pilá) — tool
• Bengali: করাত (korat) — tool
• Bulgarian: трио́н (trión) — tool
• Burmese: လွှ (hlwa.) — tool
• Catalan: serra — tool
• Chechen: херх (xerx) — tool
• Cherokee: ᎦᏅᏙᎩ (ganvdogi) — tool
• Cheyenne: é'ėxovahtȯtse — tool
• Chinese Cantonese: 鋸 /锯 (goe3) — tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 鋸子 /锯子 (jùzi) — tool
• Chinese Mandarin: 鋸 /锯 (jù) — tool
• Chuvash: пӑчки (păčki) — tool
• Ngazidja Comorian: msimanyo — tool
• Coptic: ⲃⲁϣⲟⲩⲣ (bašour) — tool
• Czech: pila — tool
• Danish: sav — tool
• Daur: kiree — tool
• Dolgan: эрбии (erbii) — tool
• Dongxiang: qirou — tool
• Dutch: zaag — tool
• East Yugur: küree — tool
• Esperanto: segilo — tool
• Estonian: saag — tool
• Evenki: хувун (huwun) — tool
• Faroese: sag — tool
• Finnish: saha — tool
• French: scie — tool
• West-Frisian: seage — tool
• Friulian: see — tool
• Galician: serra — tool
• Georgian: ხერხი (xerxi) — tool
• German: Säge — tool
• Greek: πριόνι (prióni) — tool
• Ancient Greek: πρίων (príōn) — tool
• Greenlandic: pilattuut — tool
• Gujarati: કરવત (karvat) — tool
• Hausa: zarto — tool
• Hebrew: מַשׂוֹר (masór) — tool
• Higaonon: gabas — tool
• Hiligaynon: lagari — tool
• Hindi: आरा (ārā) — tool
• Hungarian: fűrész — tool
• Hunsrik: Seh — tool
• Icelandic: sög — tool
• Ida'an: geragadi — tool
• Indonesian: gergaji — tool
• Ingrian: saha — tool
• Ingush: херх (xerx) — tool
• Irish: sábh — tool
• Irish: toireasc — tool
• Italian: sega — tool
• Japanese: 鋸 (nokogiri) — tool
• Javanese: graji — tool
• Kalmyk: көрә (körä) — tool
• Kazakh: ара (ara) — tool
• Khmer: រណារ (rɔnaa) — tool
• Korean: 톱 (top) — tool
• Central Kurdish: ھەڕە (herre) — tool
• Central Kurdish: ئەڕە (erre) — tool
• Central Kurdish: مِشار (mişar) — tool
• Northern Kurdish: mişar — tool
• Northern Kurdish: birrek — tool
• Southern Kurdish: مِشار (mişar) — tool
• Southern Kurdish: ھەڕە (herre) — tool
• Kyrgyz: араа (araa) — tool
• Lao: ເລື່ອຍ (lư̄ai) — tool
• Latin: serra — tool
• Latvian: zāģis — tool
• Ligurian: særa — tool
• Lithuanian: pjūklas — tool
• Lombard: résega — tool
• Luxembourgish: See — tool
• Macedonian: пи́ла (píla) — tool
• Maguindanao: garugadi — tool
• Malay: gergaji — tool
• Maltese: serrieq — tool
• Maltese: sega — tool
• Maltese: munxar — tool
• Manchu: ᡶᡠᡶᡠᠨ (fufun) — tool
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: gavas — tool
• Mansaka: lagari — tool
• Māori: kani — tool
• Maranao: gabas — tool
• Minangkabau: garagaji — tool
• Mingrelian: ხორხი (xorxi) — tool
• Mongolian: хөрөө (xöröö) — tool
• Mongolian: ᠬᠢᠷᠦᠭᠡ (kirüge) — tool
• Nanai: попон (popon) — tool
• Navajo: bee achʼiishí — tool
• Navajo: tsin bee nehechʼiishí — tool
• Nivkh: п’уф (pʼuf) — tool
• Norwegian Bokmål: sag — tool
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sag — tool
• Occitan: rèssa — tool
• Occitan: ressèga — tool
• Occitan: sèrra — tool
• Ojibwe: giishkiboojigan — tool
• Persian: اره (arre) — tool
• Persian: منشار (menšâr) — tool
• Piedmontese: ressia — tool
• Polish: piła — tool
• Polish: piłka — tool
• Portuguese: serra — tool
• Portuguese: serrote — tool
• Rohingya: horot — tool
• Romagnol: sega — tool
• Romanian: ferăstrău — tool
• Romansh: resgia — tool
• Romansh: rezgia — tool
• Russian: пила́ (pilá) — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: пила — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: жага — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: тестера — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: pila — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: žaga — tool
• Serbo-Croatian: testera — tool
• Sicilian: serra — tool
• Slovak: píla — tool
• Slovene: žaga — tool
• Lower Sorbian: piła — tool
• Upper Sorbian: piła — tool
• Spanish: sierra — tool
• Swahili: msumeno — tool
• Swedish: såg — tool
• Tagalog: lagari — tool
• Tajik: арра (arra) — tool
• Tajik: миншор (minšor) — tool
• Tamil: ரம்பம் (rampam) — tool
• Tarantino: seghe — tool
• Tatar: пычкы (pıçqı) — tool
• Telugu: రంపము (rampamu) — tool
• Thai: เลื่อย (lʉ̂ai) — tool
• Tibetan: སོག་ལེ (sog le) — tool
• Turkish: testere — tool
• Turkish: bıçkı — tool
• Ottoman Turkish: بچقی (bıçkı) — tool
• Ottoman Turkish: اره (erre) — tool
• Ottoman Turkish: منشار (minşar) — tool
• Turkmen: byçgy — tool
• Ukrainian: пила́ (pylá) — tool
• Ukrainian: пи́лка (pýlka) — tool
• Urdu: آرا (ārā) — tool
• Uyghur: ھەرە (here) — tool
• Uzbek: arra — tool
• Venetan: siega — tool
• Venetan: sega — tool
• Vietnamese: cưa — tool
• Vietnamese: cái cưa — tool
• Walloon: soyete — tool
• Walloon: soye — tool
• Welsh: llif — tool
• Woiwurrung: bindabalap — tool
• Yakut: эрбии (erbii) — tool
• Yiddish: זעג (zeg) — tool
• Bulgarian: поговорка (pogovorka) — saying or proverb
• Bulgarian: сентенция (sentencija) — saying or proverb
• Dutch: gezegde — saying or proverb
• Dutch: spreuk — saying or proverb
• Dutch: spreekwoord — saying or proverb
• French: proverbe — saying or proverb
• German: Spruch — saying or proverb
• German: Sprichwort — saying or proverb
• Greek: απόφθεγμα (apófthegma) — saying or proverb
• Greek: ρήση (rísi) — saying or proverb
• Indonesian: amsal — saying or proverb
• Indonesian: peri bahasa — saying or proverb
• Indonesian: petitih — saying or proverb
• Irish: nath — saying or proverb
• Irish: seanrá — saying or proverb
• Italian: adagio — saying or proverb
• Italian: detto — saying or proverb
• Italian: proverbio — saying or proverb
• Northern Kurdish: pend — saying or proverb
• Northern Kurdish: gotina pêşiyan — saying or proverb
• Latin: dictum — saying or proverb
• Macedonian: поговорка (pogovorka) — saying or proverb
• Macedonian: изрека (izreka) — saying or proverb
• Macedonian: пословица (poslovica) — saying or proverb
• Plautdietsch: Saj — saying or proverb
• Polish: powiedzenie — saying or proverb
• Polish: przysłowie — saying or proverb
• Portuguese: provérbio — saying or proverb
• Russian: посло́вица (poslóvica) — saying or proverb
• Russian: погово́рка (pogovórka) — saying or proverb
• Spanish: proverbio — saying or proverb
• Spanish: refrán — saying or proverb
• Spanish: dicho — saying or proverb
• Welsh: dywediad — saying or proverb
• Welsh: dihareb — saying or proverb
• Welsh: gwireb — saying or proverb
• Welsh: hen air — saying or proverb
• Arabic: نَشَرَ (našara) — cut with a saw
• Armenian: սղոցել (sġocʻel) — cut with a saw
• Aromanian: nsher — cut with a saw
• Asturian: serrar — cut with a saw
• Bashkir: бысыу (bısıw) — cut with a saw
• Biatah Bidayuh: gŭrŭt — cut with a saw
• Bulgarian: режа с трион (reža s trion) — cut with a saw
• Catalan: serrar — cut with a saw
• Chinese Cantonese: 鋸 /锯 (goe3) — cut with a saw
• Chinese Mandarin: 鋸 /锯 (jù) — cut with a saw
• Czech: řezat — cut with a saw
• Danish: save — cut with a saw
• Daur: kireedgw — cut with a saw
• Dolgan: эрбээ (erbee) — cut with a saw
• Dongxiang: qiroujie — cut with a saw
• Dongxiang: qiroulie — cut with a saw
• Dutch: zagen — cut with a saw
• East Yugur: küreedegi — cut with a saw
• Esperanto: segi — cut with a saw
• Evenki: хунами (hunami) — cut with a saw
• Extremaduran: sahal — cut with a saw
• Finnish: sahata — cut with a saw
• French: scier — cut with a saw
• Friulian: seâ — cut with a saw
• Galician: serrar — cut with a saw
• German: sägen — cut with a saw
• Greek: πριονίζω (prionízo) — cut with a saw
• Ancient Greek: πρίζω (prízō) — cut with a saw
• Ancient Greek: πρίω (príō) — cut with a saw
• Greenlandic: pilattorpoq — cut with a saw
• Hungarian: fűrészel — cut with a saw
• Icelandic: saga — cut with a saw
• Italian: segare — cut with a saw
• Japanese: 挽く (hiku) — cut with a saw
• Japanese: 切る (kiru) — cut with a saw
• Kalmyk: көрәдх (körädx) — cut with a saw
• Korean: 켜다 (kyeoda) — cut with a saw
• Korean: 썰다 (sseolda) — cut with a saw
• Northern Kurdish: mişar kirin — cut with a saw
• Northern Kurdish: bi mişarê birrîn — cut with a saw
• Latin: serrare — cut with a saw
• Latvian: zāģēt — cut with a saw
• Low German: sagen — cut with a saw
• Luxembourgish: seeën — cut with a saw
• Macedonian: пили (pili) — cut with a saw
• Malay: menggergaji — cut with a saw
• Manchu: ᡶᡠᡶᡠᠮᠪᡳ (fufumbi) — cut with a saw
• Māori: kanikani — cut with a saw
• Māori: kani haratua — cut with a saw
• Māori: kani tāmaku — cut with a saw
• Mongolian: хөрөөдөх (xöröödöx) — cut with a saw
• Nanai: пори (pori) — cut with a saw
• Norwegian: sage — cut with a saw
• Occitan: ressar — cut with a saw
• Occitan: ressegar — cut with a saw
• Occitan: serrar — cut with a saw
• Persian: اره کردن (arre kardan) — cut with a saw
• Pohnpeian: rese — cut with a saw
• Polish: piłować — cut with a saw
• Polish: przepiłowywać — cut with a saw
• Polish: przepiłować — cut with a saw
• Polish: rżnąć — cut with a saw
• Polish: przerżnąć — cut with a saw
• Portuguese: serrar — cut with a saw
• Romagnol: ṣghêr — cut with a saw
• Romanian: fierăstrui — cut with a saw
• Romanian: ferestrui — cut with a saw
• Romansh: resgiar — cut with a saw
• Romansh: rasgear — cut with a saw
• Romansh: razger — cut with a saw
• Romansh: rasger — cut with a saw
• Russian: пили́ть (pilítʹ) — cut with a saw
• Northern Sami: sahet — cut with a saw
• Northern Sami: sahát — cut with a saw
• Scottish Gaelic: sàbh — cut with a saw
• Serbo-Croatian: пилити — cut with a saw
• Serbo-Croatian: жагати — cut with a saw
• Serbo-Croatian: piliti — cut with a saw
• Serbo-Croatian: žagati — cut with a saw
• Sicilian: sirrari — cut with a saw
• Slovene: žagati — cut with a saw
• Spanish: serrar — cut with a saw
• Swedish: såga — cut with a saw
• Venetan: segar — cut with a saw
• Venetan: siegar — cut with a saw
• Vietnamese: cưa — cut with a saw
• Walloon: soyî — cut with a saw
• Welsh: llifio — cut with a saw
• Yiddish: זעגן (zegn) — cut with a saw
• Chinese Cantonese: 鋸 /锯 (goe3) — make a motion back and forth as with a saw
• Finnish: sahata — make a motion back and forth as with a saw
• Greek: πριονίζω (prionízo) — make a motion back and forth as with a saw
• Korean: 켜다 (kyeoda) — make a motion back and forth as with a saw