سيران

Arabic

Etymology 1

From سَارَ (sāra).

Noun

سَيْرَان • (sayrān) ?

1. walk, pleasure walk, country trip

Descendants

• Middle Armenian: սայրան (sayran), սէյրան (sēyran)
  • Armenian: սեյրան (seyran), Սեյրան (Seyran)
• Northern Kurdish: seyrane

  → Lishana Deni: סהראניה (sehrāne, “lit. walking, communal festive picnic after Passover”)

• → Persian: سیران (seyrân, “walk, drive, or ride for pleasure”)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: سیران (seyran)
    • Turkish: seyran
    • → Greek: σεργιάνι (sergiáni)

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2014-10-16) “seyran”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2017-02-23
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سيران”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen, page 521b
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سیران”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 715b

Etymology 2

Noun

سِيرَان • (sīrān) m pl

1. plural of سُور (sūr)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سيران”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 521b