- סָאסָא
- סָאסָא, סַאסְאָהm. h. a. ch. (= סעסע, cmp. סער, שׂער; cmp. זָאזָא) britsle, awn or beard of grain. Sot.5a (Ar. סָסָא). Ḥull.17b דמיא לס׳ (Ar. לססא) if the slaughtering knife is rough like a bristle of Pl. סָאסִין, constr. סָאסֵי. Koh. R. to IX, 11 שהיה רץ על ס׳ שיבוליןוכ׳ (not שיבוליא; some ed. שָׂאסֵי) he ran over the ears of standing grain, and they were not broken.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.