Saft

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German saf, saft, from Old High German saf, from Proto-West Germanic *sap (“juice, sap”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /zaft/ (Standard) IPA(key): /saft/ (Austria) Rhymes: -aft === Noun === Saft m (strong, genitive Saftes or Safts, plural Säfte, diminutive Säftchen n) (beverage) juice (botany) sap (zoology) fluid (cooking) gravy, meat juice (Fleisch etc.) im eigenen Saft kochen ― (meat, etc.) to cook in its own juices (colloquial) power; electricity Das Handy hat keinen Saft mehr. ― The cellphone is out of juice. (colloquial) agility; vitality; power (slang) any bodily fluid, especially sweat and (vulgar) semen or vaginal fluid ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Hungarian: szaft, zaft → Serbo-Croatian: сафт / saft === Further reading === “Saft” in Duden online “Saft”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)