سریش

See also: سريش, شريش, and سرېښ

Persian

Verb

سریش • (seriš)

1. present stem form of سرشتن (sereštan)

Noun

سریش • (seriš)

1. lime, glue
2. gluten, the sticky part from bran
3. isinglass
4. kingspear (Asphodelus gen. et spp.)
5. desert candle (Eremurus gen. et spp.)
6. (figurative) wailing, lamentation

Alternative forms

• اسراش (esrâš), اشراس (ešrâs), سریشک (serîšak)

Descendants

• → Arabic: سِرِيش (sirīš), إشْرَاس (ʔišrās), إشْرِيس (ʔišrīs), شِرَاس (širās), شِرْيَاس (širyās)
  • → Swahili: sherisi
• → Azerbaijani: çiriş
• → Kazakh: шырыш (şyryş)
• → Middle Armenian: շրէշ (šrēš)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چریش (çiriş)
  • Turkish: çiriş
  • → Bulgarian: чири́ш (čiríš)
  • → Hungarian: csiriz
  • → Macedonian: чириш (čiriš)
• → Pashto: سرېښ (sareẍ)

Further reading

• Aitchison, J.T.E. (1891) “Notes to assist in further knowledge of the products of Western Afghanistan and of North Eastern Persia”, in Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh‎^[1], volume 18, page 184
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سریش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “سریش”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 294