sarma

From Ottoman Turkish صرمه (sarma).

sarma (plural sarmas)

1. A dumpling of minced meat and other ingredients wrapped in a leaf (grape or cabbage); the Turkish equivalent of dolma.

• dolma
• сэнэтхьапэ (sɛnɛtḥapɛ)

From Russian сарма́ (sarmá).

sarma (uncountable)

1. A strong, cold wind that blows down the valley of the Sarma river (which acts as a natural wind tunnel), reaching hurricane strength (uprooting trees) by the time it blows across the western shore and into Lake Baikal.
   • 2011, Michael D. O'Brien, The Father's Tale: A Novel, Ignatius Press, →ISBN, page 749:

     “You see how the wind has pressed it into a hard layer?” “The sarma did it!” one of the children told Alex. “The sarma wind is mighty. It's so strong it turns ships upside down.” “Ah, that's something I didn't know. Well, we can thank the sarma for making excellent material for us." "The mountain hides our homes from the sarma," said another.

• Samra, amsar, maras, maars, rasam, Amars, Asmar, Samar, āśram, Marsa, Maras, SRAAM

sarma f (4th declension)

1. frost (thin ice crystals that form on plant leaves, twigs, or also on wires, cables, etc. when the air temperature is below the freezing point)

   sarmas klāti koki ― frost-covered trees

   graudainā sarma ― granulous frost

   kristāliskā sarma ― crystal frost

2. (figuratively) gray hair, graying hair

   sarma matos ― gray (lit. frost) in the hair

• salna

• sals

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صرمه (sarma).

• IPA^(key): /sarˈma/

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sarma f (plural sarmale)

1. stuffed cabbage roll

• gălușcă

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صرمه (sarma).

• IPA^(key): /sǎrma/

sàrma f (Cyrillic spelling са̀рма)

1. a type of food from meat rolled with leaves

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صارمه (ṣarma),^[1] from Proto-Turkic *saru- (“to wind around”),^[2][3] morphologically sar- +‎ -ma (“verbal noun suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /saɾˈma/
• Hyphenation: sar‧ma

sarma (definite accusative sarmayı, plural sarmalar)

1. verbal noun of sarmak
2. Any dish made by rolling up vine, cabbage or chard leaves with rice-based stuffing.
3. A handmade cigarette; a rollup.
4. A chicken thigh.

   Synonym: taleks

5. (wrestling) A king of leg clasp technique.

sarma

1. Made by rolling up.

From sar- +‎ -ma (“negation suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾ.ma/

sarma

1. second-person singular negative imperative of sarmak

• “sarma”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sarma¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4080