سرند

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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Noun

سرند • (serend)

a kind of yew tree

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1055

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from dialectal Arabic سرند (sarand, “straw basket”), a dissimilated variant of سردا (saridā), itself borrowed from a Northwest Semitic language; compare Hebrew סְרִידָה (sǝrīdāh, “matting, a sieve”).[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sa.ɾanð]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.ɾän̪d̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sä.ɾän̪d̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sä.ɾän̪d̪̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæ.ɹæn̪d̪̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.ɾän̪d̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	sarand
Dari reading^?	sarand
Iranian reading^?	sarand
Tajik reading^?	sarand

Noun

سرند • (sarand)[2]

a screen, a riddle, a sieve
― sarand kardan ― to screen, riddle, sift by means of a sreen or riddle

Descendants

→ Andalusian Arabic: سرند (sarand)
- → Spanish: zaranda (“shaker”)
  - → Portuguese: ciranda (“sieve; a Brazilian dance”)
    - → English: ciranda (“a Brazilian dance”)

References

Ibrahim Bassal (2012) “Hebrew and Aramaic Substrata in Spoken Palestinian Arabic”, in Mediterranean Language Review, volume 19, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 93
Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سرند”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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[1] Ibrahim Bassal (2012) “Hebrew and Aramaic Substrata in Spoken Palestinian Arabic”, in Mediterranean Language Review, volume 19, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 93

[2] Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سرند”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim