سرو

See also: شرو

Arabic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐫘𐫡𐫇 (srw /⁠sarw⁠/, “cypress”). The form شَرْبِين (šarbīn) from Aramaic – Jewish Babylonian Aramaic שׁוּרְבִּינָא (šurbinnā, “Cupressus sempervirens”), Classical Syriac ܫܘܽܪܒܻܝܢܳܐ (šurbinnā), ܫܱܪܘܱܝܢܳܐ (šarwēnā, “Cupressus sempervirens”) –, from Akkadian 𒋗𒌫𒎙 (šu-ur₂-min₃ /⁠šurmēnu⁠/, “cypress”), from Sumerian 𒋗𒌫𒈨 (šu-ur₂-me /⁠šurmen⁠/, “cypress”). Compare Old Armenian սարոյ (saroy, “cypress”) and սարդ (sard, “cedar of Lebanon”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sarw/

Noun

سَرْو • (sarw) m (collective, singulative سَرْوَة f (sarwa))

  1. cypress (Cupressus gen. et spp., particularly Cupressus sempervirens)

Declension

Declension of noun سَرْو (sarw)
collective basic collective triptote
indefinite definite construct
informal سَرْو
sarw 		السَّرْو
as-sarw 		سَرْو
sarw
nominative سَرْوٌ
sarwun 		السَّرْوُ
as-sarwu 		سَرْوُ
sarwu
accusative سَرْوًا
sarwan 		السَّرْوَ
as-sarwa 		سَرْوَ
sarwa
genitive سَرْوٍ
sarwin 		السَّرْوِ
as-sarwi 		سَرْوِ
sarwi
singulative singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
indefinite definite construct
informal سَرْوَة
sarwa 		السَّرْوَة
as-sarwa 		سَرْوَة
sarwat
nominative سَرْوَةٌ
sarwatun 		السَّرْوَةُ
as-sarwatu 		سَرْوَةُ
sarwatu
accusative سَرْوَةً
sarwatan 		السَّرْوَةَ
as-sarwata 		سَرْوَةَ
sarwata
genitive سَرْوَةٍ
sarwatin 		السَّرْوَةِ
as-sarwati 		سَرْوَةِ
sarwati
dual indefinite definite construct
informal سَرْوَتَيْن
sarwatayn 		السَّرْوَتَيْن
as-sarwatayn 		سَرْوَتَيْ
sarwatay
nominative سَرْوَتَانِ
sarwatāni 		السَّرْوَتَانِ
as-sarwatāni 		سَرْوَتَا
sarwatā
accusative سَرْوَتَيْنِ
sarwatayni 		السَّرْوَتَيْنِ
as-sarwatayni 		سَرْوَتَيْ
sarwatay
genitive سَرْوَتَيْنِ
sarwatayni 		السَّرْوَتَيْنِ
as-sarwatayni 		سَرْوَتَيْ
sarwatay
paucal (3-10) sound feminine paucal
indefinite definite construct
informal سَرْوَات
sarwāt 		السَّرْوَات
as-sarwāt 		سَرْوَات
sarwāt
nominative سَرْوَاتٌ
sarwātun 		السَّرْوَاتُ
as-sarwātu 		سَرْوَاتُ
sarwātu
accusative سَرْوَاتٍ
sarwātin 		السَّرْوَاتِ
as-sarwāti 		سَرْوَاتِ
sarwāti
genitive سَرْوَاتٍ
sarwātin 		السَّرْوَاتِ
as-sarwāti 		سَرْوَاتِ
sarwāti

References

  • “šrwyn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 807
  • Corriente, F. (1997) “سرو + سرول”, in A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 250
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “سرو”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 650
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎[3] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, →DOI, pages 387–388
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎[4] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 26–33
  • Hehn, Victor with Schrader, Otto (1911) Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere in ihrem Übergang aus Asien nach Griechenland und Italien sowie in das übrige Europa‎[5] (in German), 8th edition, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, pages 286–294
  • Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎[6] (in German), volume 51, page 314
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سرو”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎[7] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 568
  • Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 53
  • “šurmen (cypress)”, in The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary‎[8], University of Pennsylvania, 2006
  • “šurmēnu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎[9], volume 17, Š, part 3, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1992, pages 349–353

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian 𐫘𐫡𐫇 (srw /⁠sarw⁠/, “cypress”), a Near Eastern Wanderwort. Perhaps from Classical Syriac ܫܱܪܘܱܝܢܳܐ (šarwēnā, “cypress”), ultimately from Akkadian 𒋗𒌫𒎙 (šu-ur₂-min₃ /⁠šurmēnu⁠/, “cypress”), from Sumerian 𒋗𒌫𒈨 (šu-ur₂-me /⁠šurmen⁠/, “cypress”).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sarw
Dari reading? sarw
Iranian reading? sarv
Tajik reading? sarv

Noun

سرو • (sarv)

  1. cypress
  2. (figurative, poetic) slim and tall beauty
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 136:
      سرو قدت که از او رسته گل زیبایی
      دمبدم تازه‌تر و خوشتر و زیباتر باد
      sarw-i qaddat ki az ō rusta gul-i zēbāyē
      dam-ba-dam tāzatar u xwaštar u zēbātar bād
      The cypress of your stature from which a beautiful rose has grown:
      May it be fresher and better and more beautiful at every moment!
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
Derived terms
  • سرو کوهی (sarv-e kuhi)
Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: sərv
  • → Tatar: сәрви (särwi), сәрби (särbi)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: سروی (servi), سلوی (selvi) — Vulgar Turkish
    • Turkish: servi, selvi
    • → Albanian: selvi
    • → Armenian: սալվի (salvi), սալբ (salb), սալբի (salbi), սելվի (selvi), սևլի (sewli), սարվի (sarvi) (all dialectal), Սալբի (Salbi) (female given name)
    • → Bulgarian: се́лвия (sélvija), се́влия (sévlija) — metathesis, σέλβεια — Greek
    • → Greek: σελβίνι (selvíni) — Crete
    • → Macedonian: селвија (selvija)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: sèlvija / сѐлвија
    • → Crimean Tatar: servi, selbi

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (slwb' /⁠srū⁠/, “horn, nail”), from Proto-Iranian *cr̥Hwáh (“horn”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćr̥Hwás, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-wó-s, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”) +‎ *-wós.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? surū
Dari reading? surū
Iranian reading? soru
Tajik reading? suru

Noun

سرو • (soru)

  1. feeler, antenna
    Synonym: شاخک (šâxak)
  2. horn
    Synonym: شاخ (šâx)
  3. drinking horn

Further reading

  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سرو”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
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