سراب

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Arabic

Etymology

Root
س ر ب (s r b)
4 terms

From سَرِبَ (sariba, to flow).

Pronunciation

Noun

سَرَاب (sarābm

  1. mirage, fata morgana
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 24:39:
      وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَعْمَالُهُمْ كَسَرَابٍ بِقِيعَةٍ يَحْسَبُهُ ٱلظَّمْآنُ مَاءً حَتَّىٰ إِذَا جَاءَهُ لَمْ يَجِدْهُ شَيْئًا وَوَجَدَ ٱللَّهَ عِنْدَهُ فَوَفَّاهُ حِسَابَهُ. وَٱللَّهُ سَرِيعُ ٱلْحِسَابِ.
      wallaḏīna kafarū ʔaʕmāluhum kasarābin biqīʕatin yaḥsabuhu ẓ-ẓamʔānu māʔan ḥattā ʔiḏā jāʔahu lam yajidhu šayʔan wawajada l-laha ʕindahu fawaffāhu ḥisābahu. wal-lahu sarīʕu l-ḥisābi.
      As for the faithless, their works are like a mirage in a plain, which the thirsty man supposes to be water. When he comes to it, he finds it to be nothing; but there he finds God, who will pay him his full account, and God is swift at reckoning.
  2. phantom
  3. sewage

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: sərab
  • Persian: سراب (sarâb)
  • Ottoman Turkish: سراب (serāb)
  • Uzbek: sarob

Chagatai

Noun

سراب (serab)

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb, mirage).

Noun

سراب (serab)

  1. mirage, an optical phenomenon giving the illusion of a body of water

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sarāḇ
Dari reading? sarāb
Iranian reading? sarâb
Tajik reading? sarob

Noun

سراب (sarâb)

  1. mirage
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 432”, in دیوان حافظ:
      حافظ چه می‌نهی دل تو در خیال خوبان
      کی تشنه سیر گردد از لمعه سرابی
      hāfiz či mē-nihī dil-i tu dar xayāl-i xūbān
      kay tišna sēr gardad az la'ma-yi sarābē
      Hāfiz, why do you set your heart on daydreams of beauties?
      How shall a thirsty man become sated by the flash of a mirage?
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb).

Pronunciation

Noun

سراب (sarābm (Hindi spelling सराब)

  1. mirage, apparition, illusion

Declension

    Declension of سراب
singular plural
direct سراب (sarāb) سراب (sarāb)
oblique سراب (sarāb) سرابوں (sarābõ)
vocative سراب (sarāb) سرابو (sarābo)