سرند

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Noun

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سرند (serend)

  1. a kind of yew tree

References

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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from dialectal Arabic سرند (sarand, straw basket), a dissimilated variant of سردا (saridā), itself borrowed from a Northwest Semitic language; compare Hebrew סְרִידָה (sǝrīdāh, matting, a sieve).[1]

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? sarand
Dari reading? sarand
Iranian reading? sarand
Tajik reading? sarand

Noun

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سرند (sarand)[2]

  1. a screen, a riddle, a sieve
    سرند كردنsarand kardanto screen, riddle, sift by means of a sreen or riddle

Descendants

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  • Andalusian Arabic: سرند (sarand)
    • Spanish: zaranda (shaker)
      • Portuguese: ciranda (sieve; a Brazilian dance)
        • English: ciranda (a Brazilian dance)

References

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  1. ^ Ibrahim Bassal (2012) “Hebrew and Aramaic Substrata in Spoken Palestinian Arabic”, in Mediterranean Language Review, volume 19, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 93
  2. ^ Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سرند”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim