سرنگون

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Classical Persian سرنگون.

Adverb

سرنگون • (sernigûn)

1. upside down, head over heels
2. hapless, unfortunate

Persian

Etymology

Compound of سر (sar, “head”) +‎ نگون (negun, “inverted, reversed”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [saɾ.ni.ɡuːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾ.nɪ.ɡuːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾ.nɪ.ɡuːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säɾ.nɪ.ɡuːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säɾ.nu.ɡun]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæɹ.ne.ɡuːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾ.ni.ɡun]

Readings
Classical reading?	sarnigūn
Dari reading?	sarnigūn
Iranian reading?	sarnegun
Tajik reading?	sarnigun

Adjective

Dari	سرنگون
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сарнигун

سرنگون • (sarnegun)

1. head downward, upside down, inverted
2. overset, overthrown, destroyed
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1029:

     از یک اندیشه که آید در درون
     صد جهان گردد به یک دم سر نگون‏

     az yak andēša ki āyad dar dirūn
     sad jahān gardad ba yak dam sar-nigūn

     By one thought that comes into the mind
     a hundred worlds are overturned in a single moment.

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “سرنگون”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim