سراپ
Punjabi edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Punjabi [script needed] (sarāpu), from Sanskrit शप्व (śapva, “abuse”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Punjabi) IPA(key): /sə.ɾäːpᵊ/
Noun edit
سَراپ • (sarāp) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਰਾਪ)
- curse, malediction, anathema
- 2006, Baldev Singh, translated by Shabnam Ishaq, لال بتی [lāl battī, Red Light], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:
- "جے توں دیوی ماں دے پجاری نوں پرسن نہیں کیتا تاں دیوی ماں تینوں سراپ دیوے گی۔"
- "je tūṉ deyoiī māṉ de pujārī nūṉ parsann nahīṉ kītā tāṉ deyoiī māṉ tainūṉ sarāp deyoe gī."
- "If you do not please the mother goddess's priest then the mother goddess will curse you."
- sin
- Synonym: گُناہ (gunāh)
- abuse, swear
- Synonym: گال (gāl)
Declension edit
| Declension of سراپ | ||
|---|---|---|
| dir. sg. | سَراپ (sarāp) | |
| dir. pl. | سَراپ (sarāp) | |
| singular | plural | |
| direct | سَراپ (sarāp) | سَراپ (sarāp) |
| oblique | سَراپ (sarāp) | سَراپاں (sarāpāṉ) |
| vocative | سَراپا (sarāpā) | سَراپو (sarāpo) |
| ablative | سَراپوں (sarāpoṉ) | — |
| locative | سَراپے (sarāpe) | سَراپِیں (sarāpīṉ) |
| instrumental | سَراپے (sarāpe) | سَراپِیں (sarāpīṉ) |
Further reading edit
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “سراپ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
- “ਸਰਾਪ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śapva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 712