زورنا

Ottoman Turkish

زورنا

Alternative forms

• زرنا (zurna)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian زرنا (zornâ), alternative form of سرنا (sornâ).

Noun

زورنا • (zurna)

1. zurna, shawm, a double-reed outdoor wind instrument with a conical wooden body

Derived terms

• زورناجی (zurnacı, “player of zurna”)
• قبا زورنا (kaba zurna, “bass horn”)
• چاتلاق زورنا (çatlak zurna, “a garrulous man”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: zurna
• → Bulgarian: зурна́ (zurná)
• → Classical Syriac: ܙܘܪܢܐ (zurnā)
• → English: zurna
• → Georgian: ზურნა (zurna)
  • → Bats: ზურნ (zurn)
• → Greek: ζουρνάς (zournás)
• → Macedonian: зурла (zurla)
• → Middle Armenian: զուռնայ (zuṙnay), զոռնա (zoṙna)
  • Armenian: զուռնա (zuṙna)
• → Russian: зурна́ (zurná)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: зу̑рна

  Latin script: zȗrna

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zurna”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5503
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “زورنا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 259a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زورنا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 650
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lituus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 962
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زرنا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2443
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zurna”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زورنا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1019