سرنا
Arabic
Verb
- first-person plural past active of سَارَ (sāra)
- first-person plural past passive of سَارَ (sāra)
Persian
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Alternative forms
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))
Descendants
- → Ottoman Turkish: زورنا (zurnâ), زرنا (zurna)
- Turkish: zurna
- → Bulgarian: зурна́ (zurná)
- → Classical Syriac: ܙܘܪܢܐ (zurnā)
- → English: zurna
- → Georgian: ზურნა (zurna)
- → Bats: ზურნ (zurn)
- → Greek: ζουρνάς (zournás)
- → Macedonian: зурла (zurla)
- → Middle Armenian: զուռնայ (zuṙnay), զոռնա (zoṙna)
- Armenian: զուռնա (zuṙna)
- → Russian: зурна́ (zurná)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Chinese:
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, number 3, pages 203–207