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Safiyya bint Huyayy
Safiyya bint Huyayy (صفية بنت حيي), Umm Yahya, a Jewish woman of Banu al-Nadir, daughter of chief Huyayy ibn Akhtab; captured at Khaybar 7 AH, freed and married by Prophet Muhammad, became a Mother of the Believers, narrated ten hadiths, died Medina 50 or 52 AH, buried al-Baqi.
Saflufenacil
Saflufenacil (BAS 800H, Kixor) is a BASF pyrimidinedione PPO-inhibiting herbicide (Group 14) first US-registered September 3, 2009 for broadleaf weed burndown, preemergence control, and desiccation; not registered in Europe.
Safra Catz
Safra Catz (צפרא כץ), born in Israel in 1961, is an American executive who was Oracle's CEO from 2014 to 2025 and now serves as Executive Vice Chair.
Safran
Safran is a French high-technology group in aviation, defense, and space, formed in 2005 from Snecma and Sagem, employing over 110,000 people in more than 30 countries.
Safran Aircraft Engines
Safran Aircraft Engines, formerly SNECMA, is a French aircraft engine manufacturer and Safran's propulsion subsidiary, renamed in 2016. Through CFM International it builds the CFM56 and LEAP.
Safran Landing Systems
Safran Landing Systems, formerly Messier-Bugatti-Dowty and renamed in 2016, is a French subsidiary of the Safran group and the world leader in aircraft landing gear and carbon brakes.
Safranal
Safranal is a monoterpene aldehyde that is the major volatile component of saffron, giving the spice its aroma; it forms from picrocrocin during drying and is a key quality marker.
Safranin
Safranin, also sold as safranin O, is a reddish aniline dye used as a biological stain, best known as the Gram stain counterstain that colors Gram-negative bacteria pink.
Safrole
Safrole, also known as shikimol, is a naturally occurring organic compound making up about 80 percent of oil of sassafras, banned as a US food additive in 1960 as a carcinogen.
Safronov Regio
Safronov Regio is a 740-kilometer-wide region on Pluto's southern hemisphere, named by the International Astronomical Union in 2023 for Russian astronomer Viktor Safronov, whose planetesimal hypothesis explains how the planets formed.
Saft
Saft is a French battery manufacturer founded in 1918 and wholly owned by TotalEnergies since 2016, making nickel-based, lithium-ion, and primary lithium batteries for industry, aerospace, and energy storage.
Saft el-Hinna
Saft el-Hinna is a village in the eastern Nile Delta of Egypt, about 7 km south-east of Zagazig, on the remains of the ancient town of Per-Sopdu.
SAFT equation of state
The SAFT equation of state (Statistical Associating Fluid Theory), introduced by Chapman, Gubbins, Jackson, and Radosz in 1989, predicts phase equilibria of complex fluids such as water, alcohols, alkanes, and polymers.
Safvat al-Safa
Safvat al-Safa (صفوة الصفا) is a Persian hagiography of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili, founder of the Safaviyya Sufi order, written by Ibn Bazzaz and completed around 1358.
Safwan field
Safwan field (حقل سفوان) is an onshore oil field in Basra province, southern Iraq, producing since 1989, the southeasternmost dome of the Zubair field that continues into Kuwait as the Abdali field.
Safwan ibn Amr al-Saksaki
Safwan ibn Amr al-Saksaki (صفوان بن عمرو السكسكي), kunya Abu Amr, was a trustworthy Sunni hadith transmitter of Homs, Syria, of the fifth tabaqa, dying around 155 AH.
Safwan ibn Umayya
Safwan ibn Umayya (صفوان بن أمية) was a notable of the Banu Jumah clan of Quraysh in Mecca who opposed Muhammad until the conquest of Mecca in 630.
Sag (bicycle setup)
Sag is the percentage of its travel that a bicycle's suspension compresses under the rider's weight, the foundational step in setting up mountain bike suspension.
Sag (power line)
Sag is the vertical drop of an overhead power line conductor between its two supports, deliberately built in to relieve tension but kept small enough to preserve ground and vegetation clearances.
SAG Awards records and statistics
The SAG Awards records and statistics cover the Screen Actors Guild Awards, presented since 1995 and renamed the Actor Awards in 2026, and their record for predicting Oscars.
Sag Harbor, New York
Sag Harbor, New York: incorporated village in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island, straddling Southampton and East Hampton towns; a former whaling port designated a Port of Entry by Washington in 1789, now a Hamptons resort village of 2,772 people with the Whaling Museum and SANS historic district.
SAG-AFTRA
SAG-AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, is the AFL-CIO union formed March 30, 2012 by merging SAG (founded 1933) and AFTRA (1937), representing about 160,000 performers across 25 US locals; notable for the 1960 residuals strike, the 118-day 2023 strike, and the 2026 TV/Theatrical Agreement with pension merger and AI protections.
Sag-gig-ga-meš
Sag-gig-ga-meš, also written Sag-gig-ga-mes, is a first-millennium BCE Akkadian therapeutic prescription series, written under the logogram SA.GIG and known mostly from 7th-century BC manuscripts made for the royal library of Ashurbanipal.
Saga
Saga (plural sögur), Old Norse 'story' or 'history': epic prose narratives composed mainly in Iceland c. 1180-1450, covering the Saga Age, Norwegian kings, and legendary pasts, in genres such as Íslendingasögur, konungasögur, fornaldarsögur, and riddarasögur.
Saga (band)
Saga is a Canadian progressive rock band formed in 1977 in Oakville, Ontario, whose 1981 album Worlds Apart and single "On the Loose" broke them in the United States.
Saga (comics)
Saga is an epic space opera/fantasy comic by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, published by Image Comics from March 2012, following lovers Alana and Marko fleeing a galactic war with their daughter Hazel, the narrator.
SAGA Diagnostics
SAGA Diagnostics is a Swedish cancer liquid-biopsy company founded in Lund in 2016 by Lao Saal and Anthony George, which developed the ultrasensitive Pathlight MRD blood test.
Saga pattern
The saga pattern coordinates a business operation across services as a sequence of local transactions that either all complete or are undone by compensating transactions, replacing distributed ACID transactions.
Saga Rebellion
The Saga Rebellion, also known as the Saga War (佐賀の乱), was an 1874 samurai revolt in Saga, Kyushu, led by Etō Shinpei and suppressed by the Meiji government.
Saga Tree
海红豆 (Hǎi Hóng Dòu), the saga tree, Adenanthera pavonina, a tropical legume tree with glossy red heart-shaped seeds used as love tokens, shade trees, fuelwood, and TCM external medicine; mildly toxic, unlike the deadly jequirity bean.