caravanserrall

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caravanserraglio, from Ottoman Turkish كاروانسَرای (karvanseray), from Persian کاروانسرای (kârvânsarây).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kə.ɾə.βən.səˈraʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kə.ɾə.vən.səˈraʎ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ka.ɾa.van.seˈraʎ]
• Rhymes: -aʎ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧van‧ser‧rall

Noun

caravanserrall m (plural caravanserralls)

1. (historical) caravanserai (in the East, a large building, with a large courtyard in the middle, where caravans are accommodated at night)
   • 2019, Carme Villabona Artero, Converses a l'Iran‎^[1], Edicions del Núvol SLU, →ISBN:

     De vegades és un pilot de sorra pedregosa per on treu el cap un pou que forma part d'un qanat. O pot ser el que queda d'un caravanserrall.

     Sometimes it is a rocky sand ridge through which a well emerges that is part of a qanat. Or it may be what remains of a caravanserai.

Related terms

nouns

• caravana f
• serrall m

Further reading

• “caravanserrall”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “caravanserrall”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “caravanserrall” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.