سرابستان
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian سرابستان (sarābistān). By surface analysis, سراب (serab, “mirage”) + ـستان (-stan, suffix forming placenames).
Noun
سرابستان • (serabistan)
Descendants
- Turkish: serabistan
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “serabistan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4151
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرابستان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1047
Persian
Etymology 1
From سرا (sarâ, “house, mansion”) + بستان (bostân, “garden”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /sa.ɾaː bus.ˈtaːn/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sä.ɾɑː bʊs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sæ.ɹɒː bos.t̪ʰɒ́ːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [sä.ɾɔ bus.t̪ʰɔ́n]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | sarā bustān |
| Dari reading? | sarā bustān |
| Iranian reading? | sarâ bostân |
| Tajik reading? | saro buston |
Noun
سرابستان • (sarâbostan)
- garden attached to a building
- c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels][2]:
- 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 bāġči-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
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /sa.ɾaː.bis.ˈtaːn/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sä.ɾɑː.bɪs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sæ.ɹɒː.bes.t̪ʰɒ́ːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [sä.ɾɔ.bis.t̪ʰɔ́n]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | sarābistān |
| Dari reading? | sarābistān |
| Iranian reading? | sarâbestân |
| Tajik reading? | sarobiston |
Noun
سرابستان • (sarâbestan)
- (poetic) world of mirages; world of vanity; world of ephemeral things
- c. 1400, Shāh Ni'matullāh-i Walī, دیوان شاه نعمت‌الله [Dīvān of Shāh Ni'matullāh][3]:
- 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.
- čōn rasīdī dar īn sarābistān
Descendants
- Ottoman Turkish: سرابستان (serâbistân)
- Turkish: serabistan