سرنای

Persian

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Alternative forms

• سورنای (surnây)
• سرنا (sornâ)
• زرنا (zornâ)

Etymology

Borrowed from an unknown Indo-European cognate of Luwian  (zurni, “horn”), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (ṡṛṅga, “horn”), Latin cornū, English horn. Folk etymology explains the word as سور (sur, “banquet, feast”) + نای (nây, “pipe, flute, nay”).

Noun

سرنای • (sornây), plural سرنای‌ها (sornây-hâ)

1. (music) zurna

Descendants

• Ottoman Turkish: زورنا (zurnâ)
  • Armenian: զուռնա (zuṙna)
  • Bulgarian: зурна
  • Classical Syriac: ܙܘܪܢܐ
  • English: zurna
  • Georgian: ზურნა (zurna)
  • Greek: ζουρνάς
  • Russian: зурна (zurna)
  • Serbo-Croatian: zurna/зурна
  • Turkish: zurna
• Chinese
  • Mandarin: 嗩吶, 唢呐 (suǒnà)

References

• J. Greppin, The Survival of Ancient Anatolian and Mesopotamian Vocabulary Until the Present, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 50 no. 3 (1991)