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‖ sakia|ˈsɑːkɪə|
Forms: 7 saki, 8 sakiah, 9 sakie, sackiyeh, sageer, sakhyia, sak(i)yeh, sakieh, sakia.
[Arab. sāqiyah, fem. pr. pple. of saqā to irrigate. In North Africa the q is pronounced (g), whence the form sageer.]
A machine for drawing water for irrigation, consisting of a large vertical wheel to which a number of earthen pots are attached, and to which motion is imparted by a horizontal wheel turned by oxen or asses.
1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 139 Eight Sakis turned all by Oxen, that discharge Water into a great Bason. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 603 (Stanf.) One of the ways in which the water is generally raised is by the Sakiah, or Persian wheel. 1832Veg. Subst. Food 21 The Nubian cultivators..employ sakies, or water-wheels, for the purpose of irrigating the fields during the summer. 1836Lane Mod. Egypt. (1848) II. 163 Another machine..almost the only one used for the irrigation of gardens in Egypt, is the ‘sákiyeh’. 1844Kitto Phys. Hist. Palestine vii. 295 The Sackiyeh,..which is usually in all places called ‘the Persian Wheel’. 1866Baker Albert N'Yanza II. 37 Saat..works away with his spoon like a Sageer (water wheel),..the soup disappearing like water in the desert. 1873Leland Egypt. Sketch-Bk. 50 A sakhyia or water-wheel, turned by oxen or donkeys. 1885C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts Ser. iv. 93/1 In Egypt, under the name of sakia, this machine is in common use.
attrib.1873W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 324 The two characteristic sounds are the sakyeh creak, and the chattering of villagers at sunset. |