սարայ

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Armenian

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Etymology

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From Middle Armenian սարայ (saray), from Persian سرای (sarây); in some dialects, via Ottoman Turkish سرای (serây, saray). The sense "shed" is borrowed from Russian сара́й (saráj). Doublet of սրահ (srah).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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սարայ (saray) (dialectal)

  1. palace
    Synonym: պալատ (palat)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 54:[1]
      սարայ․ փալացցօ
      saray; pʻalacʻcʻō
      սարայ (saray) = palazzo
  2. (colloquial) shed, storage building

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Alternative forms

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References

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  1. ^ Orengo, Alessandro (2019) “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 242

Further reading

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “սառայ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages