سراب
Arabic edit
Etymology edit
Root |
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س ر ب (s-r-b) |
From سَرِبَ (sariba, “to flow”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
سَرَاب • (sarāb) m
- mirage, fata morgana
- 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 24:39:
- وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَعْمَالُهُمْ كَسَرَابٍ بِقِيعَةٍ يَحْسَبُهُ ٱلظَّمْآنُ مَاءً حَتَّىٰ إِذَا جَاءَهُ لَمْ يَجِدْهُ شَيْئًا وَوَجَدَ ٱللَّهَ عِنْدَهُ فَوَفَّاهُ حِسَابَهُ. وَٱللَّهُ سَرِيعُ ٱلْحِسَابِ.
- wallaḏīna kafarū ʔaʕmāluhum kasarābin biqīʕatin yaḥsabuhu ẓ-ẓamʔānu māʔan ḥattā ʔiḏā jāʔahu lam yajidhu šayʔan wawajada l-laha ʕindahu fawaffāhu ḥisābahu. wal-lahu sarīʕu l-ḥisābi.
- As for the faithless, their works are like a mirage in a plain, which the thirsty man supposes to be water. When he comes to it, he finds it to be nothing; but there he finds God, who will pay him his full account, and God is swift at reckoning.
- phantom
- sewage
Declension edit
Declension of noun سَرَاب (sarāb)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | سَرَاب sarāb |
السَّرَاب as-sarāb |
سَرَاب sarāb |
Nominative | سَرَابٌ sarābun |
السَّرَابُ as-sarābu |
سَرَابُ sarābu |
Accusative | سَرَابًا sarāban |
السَّرَابَ as-sarāba |
سَرَابَ sarāba |
Genitive | سَرَابٍ sarābin |
السَّرَابِ as-sarābi |
سَرَابِ sarābi |
Descendants edit
Chagatai edit
Noun edit
سراب (serab)
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Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb, “mirage”).
Noun edit
سراب • (serab)
- mirage, an optical phenomenon giving the illusion of a body of water
Derived terms edit
- سرابستان (serabistan, “place of mirage”)
Descendants edit
- Turkish: serap
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “serap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4151
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سراب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 670
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سراب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[2], Vienna, column 2577
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سراب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1047
Persian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [sa.ˈɾɑːβ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sæ.ɹɒ́ːb̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [sä.ɾɔ́b]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | sarāḇ |
Dari reading? | sarāb |
Iranian reading? | sarâb |
Tajik reading? | sarob |
Noun edit
سراب • (sarâb)
- mirage
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 432”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ][4]:
- حافظ چه مینهی دل تو در خیال خوبان
کی تشنه سیر گردد از لمعه سرابی- hāfiz či mē-nihī dil-i tu dar xayāl-i xūbān
kay tišna sēr gardad az la'ma-yi sarābē - Hāfiz, why do you set your heart on daydreams of beauties?
How shall a thirsty man become sated by the flash of a mirage?
- hāfiz či mē-nihī dil-i tu dar xayāl-i xūbān
Derived terms edit
- سرابستان (sarâbestân)
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /sə.ɾɑːb/
- Rhymes: -ɑːb
Noun edit
سراب • (sarāb) m (Hindi spelling सराब)
Declension edit
Declension of سراب | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | سراب (sarāb) | سراب (sarāb) |
oblique | سراب (sarāb) | سرابوں (sarābō̃) |
vocative | سراب (sarāb) | سرابو (sarābō) |