سرند

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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Noun

سرند • (serend)

  1. a kind of yew tree

References

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from dialectal Arabic سرند (sarand, “straw basket”), a dissimilated variant of سردا (saridā), itself borrowed from a Northwest Semitic language; compare Hebrew סְרִידָה (sǝrīdāh, “matting, a sieve”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sarand
Dari reading? sarand
Iranian reading? sarand
Tajik reading? sarand

Noun

سرند • (sarand)[2]

  1. a screen, a riddle, a sieve
    سرند كردن ― sarand kardan ― to screen, riddle, sift by means of a sreen or riddle

Descendants

  • → Andalusian Arabic: سرند (sarand)
    • → Spanish: zaranda (“shaker”)
      • → Portuguese: ciranda (“sieve; a Brazilian dance”)
        • → English: ciranda (“a Brazilian dance”)

References

  1. ^ Ibrahim Bassal (2012) “Hebrew and Aramaic Substrata in Spoken Palestinian Arabic”, in Mediterranean Language Review, volume 19, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 93
  2. ^ Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سرند”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
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