سراغ

Old Anatolian Turkish

Noun

سراغ (sorağ)

1. news, tidings

Further reading

• “sorağ”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), volume V, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1971, page 3511

Persian

Etymology

From a Turkic source. Compare Ottoman Turkish سراغ (soraɣ), Kazakh сұрақ (sūraq).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [su.ˈɾɑːɣ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊ.ɾɑ́ːɣ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊ.ɾɑ́ːɣ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sʊ.ɾɑ́ːɣ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [su.ɾɔ́ːɣ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [so.ɹɒ́ːɢ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [su.ɾɔ́ʁ]

Readings
Classical reading?	surāğ
Dari reading?	surāğ
Iranian reading?	sorâğ
Tajik reading?	suroġ

Noun

سراغ • (sorâğ)

1. sign, scent, footprint
   • c. 1065, Qaṭrān of Tabrīz, “Qaṣīda in praise of Abū Naṣr Mamlān”, in دیوان قطران‎^[2]:

     مهتری با بذل و جود او نیامد در جهان
     خسروی با عدل و داد او ندارد کس سراغ

     mihtarē bā baḏl u jūd-i ō nay-āmad dar jahān
     xusrawē bā adl u dād-i ō na-dārad kas surāğ

     A great man of generosity, and his liberality did not come to the world;
     A Khusraw of justice, and no one has any trace of his righteousness.

2. (figurative) going looking for (something or someone)
3. (figurative) asking after (someone)

Derived terms

• سراغ گرفتن (sorâğ gereftan)

 

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سراغ”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim