سرابستان

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سرابستان (sarābistān). By surface analysis, سراب (serab, mirage) +‎ ـستان (-stan, suffix forming placenames).

Noun

سرابستان (serabistan)

  1. place where mirages often occur
  2. (figuratively) world of vanity

Descendants

  • Turkish: serabistan

Further reading

Persian

Etymology 1

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From سرا (sarâ, house, mansion) +‎ بستان (bostân, garden).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sarā bustān
Dari reading? sarā bustān
Iranian reading? sarâ bostân
Tajik reading? saro buston

Noun

سرابستان (sarâbostan)

  1. garden attached to a building
    • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma:
      اندر شهر در میان سراها باغچه‌ها و اشجار باشد و آب از چاه دهند و در حرم سلطان سرابستان‌هاست که از آن نیکوتر نباشد و دولاب‌ها ساخته‌اند که آن بساتین را آب دهد
      andar šahr dar miyān sarā-hā u bāğči-hā u ašjār u āb az čāh dahand u dar haram-i sultān sarābustān-hā-st ki az ān nēkū-tar na-bāšad u dōlāb-hā sāxta-and ki ān basātīn rā āb dahad.
      In the middle of the city, there are mansions and gardens. Water comes from wells. There are gardens attached to mansions in the king's private quarters, and nothing is better than that. Water wheels have been built to water those gardens.

Etymology 2

From سراب (sarâb, mirage) +‎ ـستان (-estân).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sarāḇistān
Dari reading? sarābistān
Iranian reading? sarâbestân
Tajik reading? sarobiston

Noun

سرابستان (sarâbestan)

  1. (poetic) world of mirages; world of vanity; world of ephemeral things
    • c. 1400, Shāh Ni'matullāh-i Walī, دیوان شاه نعمت‌الله:
      چون رسیدی در این سرابستان
      هم مرادی از این سرا بستان
      čōn rasīdī dar īn sarābistān
      ham murādē az īn sarā bistān
      When you arrive in this world of mirages,
      Take away desire, too, from this mansion.
Descendants