سرنا

Arabic

Verb

سِرْنَا • (sirnā) (form I) /sir.naː/

  1. first-person plural past active/passive of سَارَ (sāra)

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Borrowed from an unknown, possibly Anatolian, Indo-European cognate of Luwian 𒍪𒌨𒉌 (zurni, horn), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (ṡṛṅga, horn), Latin cornū, English horn, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (though Kloekhorst disagrees). Folk etymology explains the word as سور (sur, banquet, feast) + نای (nây, pipe, flute, nay).

    Pronunciation

     

    Readings
    Classical reading? surnā
    Dari reading? surnā
    Iranian reading? sornâ
    Tajik reading? surnay

    Noun

    Dari سرنا
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik сурнай

    سرنا • (sornâ) (plural سرناها)

    1. (music) zurna

    Descendants

    References

    • Greppin, John A. C. (1991) “The Survival of Ancient Anatolian and Mesopotamian Vocabulary Until the Present”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies[1], volume 50, number 3, pages 203–207