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Punjabi
Etymology
Inherited from Old Punjabi (sarāpu), from Sanskrit शप्व (śapva, “abuse”).
Pronunciation
Noun
سَراپ • (sarāp) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਰਾਪ)
- curse, malediction, anathema
- Synonyms: بَدْدُعا, لَعْنَت (laʻnat)
2006, Baldev Singh, translated by Shabnam Ishaq, لال بتی [lāl battī, Red Light], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:"جے توں دیوی ماں دے پجاری نوں پرسن نہیں کیتا تاں دیوی ماں تینوں سراپ دیوے گی۔"- "je tūṉ deyoiī māṉ de pujārī nūṉ parsann nahīṉ kītā tāṉ deyoiī māṉ tainūṉ sarāp deyoe gī."
- "If you do not please the mother goddess's priest then the mother goddess will curse you."
- sin
- Synonym: گُناہ (gunāh)
- abuse, swear
- Synonym: گال (gāl)
Declension
| Declension of سراپ
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| dir. sg.
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سَراپ (sarāp)
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| dir. pl.
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سَراپ (sarāp)
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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سَراپ (sarāp)
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سَراپ (sarāp)
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| oblique
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سَراپ (sarāp)
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سَراپاں (sarāpāṉ)
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| vocative
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سَراپا (sarāpā)
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سَراپو (sarāpo)
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| ablative
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سَراپوں (sarāpoṉ)
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سَراپاں (sarāpāṉ)
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| locative
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سَراپے (sarāpe)
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سَراپِیں (sarāpīṉ)
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| instrumental
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سَراپوں (sarāpoṉ)
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Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “سراپ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
- “ਸਰਾਪ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śapva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 712