[zāːɟis]
OriginBorrowed from Middle Low German sage or Middle Dutch zage (cf. German Säge, Dutch zaag). First mentioned in 17th-century dictionaries.
- declension-2, masculinesaw (a tool with a sharp, usually toothed, blade, used for cutting wood, metal and other hard substances)
“dārza, zaru zāģis” — garden, pruning saw
“baļķu zāģis” — log saw
“rokas zāģis” — hand saw
- declension-2, masculinesaw (a specialized tool for cutting a specific kind of hard object or substance)
“kaulu zāģis” — bone saw
“diamanta zāģis” — diamond saw
“viņš radījis vairāk nekā divdesmit jaunu ķirurģisku instrumentu, no kuriem īpaši jāatzīmē tā sauktais Šimanovska rezekcijas zāģis” — he has shown more than twenty new surgical instruments, most notably the so-called Šimanovskis' resection saw
Formszāģis(nominative, singular) · zāģi(nominative, plural) · zāģa(genitive, singular) · zāģu(genitive, plural) · zāģim(dative, singular) · zāģiem(dative, plural) · zāģi(accusative, singular) · zāģus(accusative, plural) · zāģi(instrumental, singular) · zāģiem(instrumental, plural) · zāģī(locative, singular) · zāģos(locative, plural) · zāģi(singular, vocative) · zāģi(plural, vocative) · zāgs(alternative)
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