Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Iranian in origin, but the details are not understood; it is pre-Islamic, probably from Aramaic סַרְבְּלָא (sarbəlā), סַרְבַּלָא (sarbalā, mantle; trousers) or Aramaic סַרְבֵּל (sarbel, to cloth with a mantle; to clothe with trousers), and it is possible that the verbs came before the noun in Arabic and the noun is deverbal. Regard Persian شلوار (šalvâr, trousers).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

سِرْبَال (sirbālm (plural سَرَابِيل (sarābīl))

  1. clothing, anything that is worn on the body (tops, trousers, dresses, armours, etc.)

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References edit

  • srbl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • srbl”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes[1] (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 202–203
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 47
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis[2] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 2
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سربال”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[3] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 305
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 168–169
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سربال”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1343