Arabic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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A Middle Persian borrowing acquired in Baṣra. Al-Jawālīqī, in his book about Arabicized terminology, draws it to Persian سُهْر (suhr, red), which is now سرخ (surx, red). He gives two apparently Persianate synonyms سَوَادِيّ (sawādiyy) and أَوْتَكِيّ (ʔawtakiyy).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sih.riːz/, /suh.riːz/

Noun

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سِهْرِيز or سُهْرِيز (sihrīz or suhrīzm

  1. (obsolete) a sort of date

Declension

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References

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  • Michael Jan de Goeje, editor (1879), Indices, glossarium et addenda et emendanda ad part. I–III (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 7)‎[2] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1879, page 265
  • Justi, Ferdinand (1868) “سورخ, سوخر”, in Der Bundehesh, Leipzig: F.C.W. Vogel, page 181a
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “سِهر”, 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[3] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 355b
  • Wolff, Fritz (1935) Glossar zu Firdosis Schahname[4] (in German), Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, page 535a