سرنا

Arabic

Verb

سِرْنَا • (sirnā) (form I)

1. first-person plural past active of سَارَ‎ (sāra)
2. first-person plural past passive of سَارَ‎ (sāra)

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Persian

Alternative forms

• سورنای‎ (surnây), سرنای‎ (sornây), زرنا‎ (zornâ)

Etymology

Borrowed from an unknown Indo-European cognate of Luwian [script needed] (zurni, “horn”), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (ṡṛṅga, “horn”), Latin cornū, English horn, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (though Kloekhorst disagrees). Folk etymology explains the word as سور‎ (sur, “banquet, feast”) + نای‎ (nây, “pipe, flute, nay”).

Noun

سرنا • (sornâ) (plural سرناها‎ (sornâ-hâ))

1. (music) zurna

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: زورنا‎ (zurnâ)
  • Turkish: zurna
  • → Bulgarian: зурна̀ (zurnà)
  • → Classical Syriac: ܙܘܪܢܐ‎ (zurnā)
  • → English: zurna
  • → Georgian: ზურნა (zurna)
  • → Greek: ζουρνάς (zournás)
  • → Macedonian: зурла (zurla)
  • → Middle Armenian: զուռնայ (zuṙnay), զոռնա (zoṙna)
    • Armenian: զուռնա (zuṙna)
  • → Russian: зурна́ (zurná)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: zȗrna / зу̑рна
• → Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 嗩吶, 唢呐 (suǒnà)

References

• Greppin, John A. C. (1991), “The Survival of Ancient Anatolian and Mesopotamian Vocabulary Until the Present”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies‎^[1], volume 50, issue 3, pages 203–207