سراغ

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Old Anatolian Turkish

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Noun

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سراغ (sorağ)

  1. news, tidings

Further reading

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  • “sorağ”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎[1] (in Turkish), volume V, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1971, page 3511

Persian

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Etymology

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From a Turkic source. Compare Ottoman Turkish سراغ (soraɣ), Kazakh сұрақ (sūraq).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? surāğ
Dari reading? surāğ
Iranian reading? sorâğ
Tajik reading? suroġ

Noun

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سراغ (sorâğ)

  1. sign, scent, footprint
    • c. 1065, Qaṭrān of Tabrīz, “Qaṣīda in praise of Abū Naṣr Mamlān”, in دیوان قطران[2]:
      مهتری با بذل و جود او نیامد در جهان
      خسروی با عدل و داد او ندارد کس سراغ
      mihtarē bā baḏl u jūd-i ō nay-āmad dar jahān
      xusrawē bā adl u dād-i ō na-dārad kas surāğ
      A great man of generosity, and his liberality did not come to the world;
      A Khusraw of justice, and no one has any trace of his righteousness.
  2. (figurative) going looking for (something or someone)
  3. (figurative) asking after (someone)

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