سرند

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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Noun

سرند • (serend)

1. a kind of yew tree

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سرند”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1055

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from dialectal Arabic سرند (sarand, “straw basket”), a dissimilated variant of سردا (saridā), itself borrowed from a Northwest Semitic language; compare Hebrew סְרִידָה (sǝrīdāh, “matting, a sieve”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sa.ɾanð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.ɾän̪d̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.ɾän̪d̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sä.ɾän̪d̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sä.ɾän̪d̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæ.ɹæn̪d̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sä.ɾän̪d̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	sarand
Dari reading?	sarand
Iranian reading?	sarand
Tajik reading?	sarand

Noun

سرند • (sarand)

1. a screen, a riddle, a sieve

   سرند كردن ― sarand kardan ― to screen, riddle, sift by means of a sreen or riddle

Descendants

• → Andalusian Arabic: سرند (sarand)
  • → Spanish: zaranda (“shaker”)
    • → Portuguese: ciranda (“sieve; a Brazilian dance”)
      • → English: ciranda (“a Brazilian dance”)