sarp

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		сарп
Abjad		سارپ

Etymology

From Common Turkic *sarp. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (sarp), Karakhanid [script needed] (sarp), Crimean Tatar and Turkish sarp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑrp/

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Adjective

sarp (comparative daha sarp, superlative ən sarp)

1. steep, arduous to ascend to

   Synonyms: sıldırım, yalçın

Derived terms

• sarplıq (“steepness, arduousness”)

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Common Turkic *sarp.

Adjective

sarp

1. steep, precipitous, abrupt

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sьrpъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsarp/

Noun

sarp m ?

1. sickle

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صارپ (“steep; difficult; intractable”), from Common Turkic *sarp.

Adjective

sarp

1. steep
2. arduous
   • 1937 June 18, “Tuncelinde askerî harekât devam ediyor [Military operations in Tunceli continue]”, in Cumhuriyet, page 1:

     Kutu deresi denilen yer 3000 metro yükseklikte, fevkalâde sarp, kayalıklar, derin yarlar ve kısmen de ormanlarla kapı bir mıntakadır.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صارپ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1153