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Either of two species of the amaranth genus Haloxylon: Haloxylon ammodendron (syn. Haloxylon aphyllum; black saxaul) and Haloxylon persicum (white saxaul), found in sandy habitats from Egypt to Mongolia and China.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Borrowed from Russian саксау́л (saksaúl), via a Turkic variety (compare Bashkir саҡсауыл (saqsawıl), Kazakh сексеуіл (sekseuıl)), ultimately from Kalmyk [script needed] (zaɣzāml̥, “a bush growing in the desert”), compare Mongolian заг (zag, “saxaul”), Kalmyk за (za).
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Southern Altai:
саксаул
(saksaul)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Arabic:
رِمْث
(rimṯ)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Arabic:
رَمْث
(ramṯ)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Arabic:
غَضًى
(ḡaḍan)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Arabic:
غَضًا
(ḡaḍan)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Armenian:
սաքսաուլ
(sakʻsaul)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Azerbaijani:
saksaul
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Bashkir:
саҡсауыл
(saqsawıl)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Belarusian:
саксау́л
(saksaúl)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Chinese Mandarin:
梭梭
(suōsuō)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Finnish:
saksauli
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Georgian:
საქსაული
(saksauli)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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German:
Saxaul
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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German:
Saksaul
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Kalmyk:
заг
(zag)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Kazakh:
сексеуіл
(sekseuıl)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Kyrgyz:
сөксөөл
(söksööl)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Mongolian:
заг
(zag)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Russian:
саксау́л
(saksaúl)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Serbo-Croatian:
saksàul
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Slovak:
saxaul
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Slovak:
saksaul
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Swedish:
saxaul
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Tatar:
саксаул
(saqsawl)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Turkish:
saksaul
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Turkmen:
sazak
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Ukrainian:
саксау́л
(saksaúl)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Uyghur:
سۆكسۆك
(söksök)
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
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Uzbek:
saksovul
— any plant of the Haloxylon genus
