سرمه
See also: سرمہ
Persian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Turkish sürmek (“to draw along, rub, smear”) or, alternatively, inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [suɾ.ma]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [soɹ.me]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [suɾ.mä]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | surma |
Dari reading? | surma |
Iranian reading? | sorme |
Tajik reading? | surma |
Noun edit
Dari | سرمه |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | сурма |
سرمه • (sorme)
Derived terms edit
- سرمهای (sorme-'i)
Descendants edit
- → Azerbaijani: sürmə
- → Bengali: সুরমা (śuroma)
- → Crimean Tatar: sürme
- → Gujarati: સુરમો (surmo)
- → Hindustani:
- → Ottoman Turkish: سرمه
- Turkish: sürme
- → Tatar: сөрмә (sörmä)
- → Russian: сурьма́ (surʹmá)
- → Uzbek: surma
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Persian *sarmag, from Proto-Iranian *caranáh, which gave rise to Arabic سَرْمَق (sarmaq, “orach”) and Classical Syriac ܣܪܡܓ (srmg, “orach”).
The forms سرمج (sarmaj) and سرمق (sarmaq) are from Arabic. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [saɾ.ma]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sæɹ.me]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [säɾ.mä]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | sarma |
Dari reading? | sarma |
Iranian reading? | sarme |
Tajik reading? | sarma |
Noun edit
سرمه • (sarme)
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- “srmg”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 922b
- Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28)[1], Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 227
- Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 337
- Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)[3] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 159 Nr. 466
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “سرمه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul