سرنا

Arabic

Verb

سِرْنَا • (sirnā) (form I)

first-person plural past active of سَارَ‎ (sāra)
first-person plural past passive of سَارَ‎ (sāra)

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 ‎ (sur, “banquet, feast”) + ‎ (nây, “pipe, flute, nay”).

Noun

سرنا • (sornâ) (plural سرناها‎ (sornâ-hâ))

(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, volume 50, issue 3, pages 203–207

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