سرای

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • سارای (saray), سرا (sera)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سرای (sarây, “mansion, palace”), from Middle Persian slʾd (srāy, “hall, house”).

Noun

سرای • (seray, saray)

  1. palace, seraglio, court, the official residence of a head of state or other dignitary
    Synonym: دربار (derbar)
  2. (in general) palace, mansion, any large, expensive and lavishly ornate residence
    Synonym: قصر (kasr)

Derived terms
  • آق سرای (ak saray, “a city and province of Turkey”)
  • اسكی سرای (eski saray, “the old palace of Istanbul”)
  • سرای آغاسی (saray ağası, “any attendant in the palace”)
  • سرای آلتی (saray altı, “space below a palace”)
  • سرای بورونی (saray burunu, “Sarayburnu”)
  • سرای بوسنه (saray bosna, “Sarajevo”)
  • سرایلو (saraylı, “possessed of palaces”)
  • كروانسرای (kervanseray, “caravanserai”)
Saray district, Tekirdağ
Saray district, Van

Descendants
  • Turkish: saray
  • → Albanian: saraj
  • → Armenian: սարայ (saray), սառայ (saṙay), սառա (saṙa)
  • → Bulgarian: сара́й (saráj)
  • → English: serai, sarai, Sarai
  • → Greek: σεράι (serái)
  • → Hungarian: szeráj
  • → Romanian: serai
  • → Serbo-Croatian: sàraj / са̀рај

Proper noun

سرای • (saray)

  1. Saray (a town and district in Tekirdağ province, Turkey)
  2. Saray (a town and district in Van province, Turkey)

Descendants

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “saray1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4071
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سرای”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 266b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سرای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 671
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Palatium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1234
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سرای”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2580
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “saray”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرای”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1048
  • Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Saray”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 659

Persian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [sä.ɾɑ́ːj]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [sä.ɾɑ́ːj]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [sä.ɾɔ́ːj]

Readings
Classical reading? sarāy
Dari reading? sarāy
Iranian reading? sarây
Tajik reading? saroy

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian slʾd (srāy, “hall, house”), from Old Persian *srāda, from Proto-Iranian *thrāya (“to protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *trā-yo-, suffixed form of *terh₂- (“to cross over”).[1]

Compare Old Armenian սրահ (srah, “hall; curtain”), սրահակ (srahak, “curtain”), Judeo-Persian סראה (srāh, “vestibule”), Arabic سُرَادِق (surādiq, “awning, tent; pavilion, canopy”), and Classical Mandaic ࡎࡓࡃࡒࡀ (sradqā, “pavilion, canopy; curtain”), all borrowed from Iranian.

Noun

سرای • (sarây) (plural سرای‌ها (sarây-hâ))

  1. hall
  2. dwelling, house
  3. mansion
  4. inn
  5. palace, grand edifice, king's court, seraglio
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See سرودن.

Verb

سرای • (sorây)

  1. present stem form of سرودن

References
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سرای”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Blair, Sheila S.. "Sarāy." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. 28 November 2013 <http://brillonline.nl/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/saray-SIM_6629>
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “srāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • Schmitt, Rüdiger (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 1. General”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica‎, volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 449b of 445–459
  • Bailey, H. W. (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 2. Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica‎, volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 465a of 459–465
  • “srdqˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2013-11-28
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սրահ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 281–282
  1. “caravanserai”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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