سراپ

Punjabi

Etymology

Inherited from Old Punjabi [script needed] (sarāpu), from Sanskrit शप्व (śapva, “abuse”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /sə.ɾäːpᵊ/

Noun

سَراپ • (sarāp) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਰਾਪ)

1. curse, malediction, anathema

   Synonyms: بَدْدُعا, لَعْنَت (laʻnat)

   • 2006, Baldev Singh, translated by Shabnam Ishaq, لال بتی [lāl battī, Red Light], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:

     "جے توں دیوی ماں دے پجاری نوں پرسن نہیں کیتا تاں دیوی ماں تینوں سراپ دیوے گی۔"

     "je tūṉ deyoiī māṉ de pujārī nūṉ parsann nahīṉ kītā tāṉ deyoiī māṉ tainūṉ sarāp deyoe gī."

     "If you do not please the mother goddess's priest then the mother goddess will curse you."

2. sin

   Synonym: گُناہ (gunāh)

3. abuse, swear

   Synonym: گال (gāl)

Declension

Declension of سراپ
dir. sg.	سَراپ (sarāp)
dir. pl.	سَراپ (sarāp)
	singular	plural
direct	سَراپ (sarāp)	سَراپ (sarāp)
oblique	سَراپ (sarāp)	سَراپاں (sarāpāṉ)
vocative	سَراپا (sarāpā)	سَراپو (sarāpo)
ablative	سَراپوں (sarāpoṉ)	سَراپاں (sarāpāṉ)
locative	سَراپے (sarāpe)	سَراپِیں (sarāpīṉ)
instrumental	سَراپوں (sarāpoṉ)	–

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “سراپ”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਸਰਾਪ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śapva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 712