سرکه

See also: شركة and سركه

Persian

Alternative forms

• سرکا (sirkā / serkâ), سک (sik / sek)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian HLYA (/⁠sik⁠/), [Term?] (/⁠sarkāw⁠/). Alternatively, borrowed from Turkic, compare Azerbaijani sirkə, Ottoman Turkish سركه (sirke), etc. According to Doerfer, direction of a possible borrowing between Iranian and Turkic is not clear.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /sir.ˈka/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɪɾ.kʰä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɪɾ.kʰä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sɪɾ.kʰä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [siɾ.kʰä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [seɹ.kʰʲe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [siɾ.kʰä]

Readings
Classical reading?	sirka
Dari reading?	sirka
Iranian reading?	serke
Tajik reading?	sirka

Noun

سرکه • (sirka / serke) (Tajik spelling сирка)

1. vinegar

Related terms

• سکنجبین (sikanjabīn / sekanjabin, “sekanjabin”)
• سکبا (sikbā / sekbâ, “sikbaj”)

Descendants

• → Bengali: সির্কা (sirka)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: सिरका (sirkā)

  Urdu: سِرْکَہ (sirka)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਸਿਰਕਾ (sirkā)

  Shahmukhi script: سِرْکَہ (sirkah)

See also

• (Haft-sin table) هفت‌سین (haft-sin); سبزه (sabze), سیر (sir), سیب (sib), سمنو (samanu), سنجد (senjed), سرکه (serke), سماق (somâq), سکه (sekke)