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 Proto-Indo-European 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: зурна (zurna)
  • → 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: zurna / зурна
• → 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