سرنا
Arabic
Verb
سِرْنَا • (sirnā) (form I) /sir.naː/
- first-person plural past active/passive of سَارَ (sāra)
Persian
Alternative forms
- سورنای (surnây), سرنای (sornây), سرنی (sorney), زرنا (zornâ), سورنا (surnâ), صرنا (sornâ), صرنای (sornây), سرنائی (sornâ'i)
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
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /suɾ.ˈnaː/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sʊɾ.nɑ́ː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [soɹ.nɒ́ː]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [suɾ.näj]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | surnā |
| Dari reading? | surnā |
| Iranian reading? | sornâ |
| Tajik reading? | surnay |
Noun
| Dari | سرنا |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | сурнай |
سرنا • (sornâ) (plural سرناها)
Related terms
- کرنا (karnâ)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: zurna
- → Ottoman Turkish: زورنا (zurnâ), زرنا (zurna)
- Turkish: zurna
- → Bulgarian: зурна́ (zurná)
- → Classical Syriac: ܙܘܪܢܐ (zurnā)
- → English: zurna
- → Georgian: ზურნა (zurna)
- → Bats: ზურნ (zurn)
- → Greek: ζουρνάς (zournás)
- → Macedonian: зурла (zurla)
- → Middle Armenian: զուռնայ (zuṙnay), զոռնա (zoṙna)
- Armenian: զուռնա (zuṙna)
- → Russian: зурна́ (zurná)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Kazakh: сырнай (syrnai)
- → Uzbek: surnay
- → Uyghur: سۇناي (sunay)
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