سرحد

From Persian سرحد.

سرحد • (serhadd)

1. border

• Mallouf, Nassif (1856) “frontière”, in Dictionnaire français-turc, 2nd edition, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 294

From سر (sar) +‎ حد (hadd).

سرحد • (sarhadd) (plural سرحدات)

1. border, frontier

   Synonym: مرز (marz)

• سرحدی (sarhaddi, “(adjective) border”)
• سرحددار (sarhadd-dâr, “border guard”)
• سرحدبان (sarhadd-bân, “border guard”)
• سرحدچی (sarhadd-či, “border guard”)

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: سرحد (särhad)
  • Azerbaijani: sərhəd
  • Ottoman Turkish: سرحد (serhat)
    • Turkish: serhat, Serhat
    • → Romanian: serhat
• → Turkmen: serhet
• → Zazaki: serhed
• → Uzbek: sarhad
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: सरहद (sarhad)

  Urdu: سرحد (sarhad)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਸਰਹੱਦ (sarhadda)

  Shahmukhi script: سرحد (sarhad)

Borrowed from Classical Persian سرحد (sarhadd, “border”). By surface analysis, سر (sar, “head”) +‎ حد (had(d), “boundary”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /səɾ.ɦəd̪/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -əd̪

سَرْحَد • (sarḥad) f (Hindi spelling सरहद)

1. border, frontier

   Synonyms: مَرْیادا (maryādā), سِیما (sīmā)

• “سرحد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “سرحد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.