سرنا

Arabic

Verb

سِرْنَا • (sirnā) (form I) /sir.naː/

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

Persian

Alternative forms

• سورنای (surnây), سرنای (sornây), زرنا (zornâ)

Etymology

Borrowed from an unknown, possibly Anatolian, Indo-European cognate of Luwian 𒍪𒌨𒉌 (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 سور (sur, “banquet, feast”) + نای (nây, “pipe, flute, nay”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [suɾ.ˈnɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊɾ.nɑ́ː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sʊɾ.nɑ́ː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sʊɾ.nɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [suɾ.nɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [soɹ.nɒ́ː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [suɾ.nɔ́]

Readings
Classical reading?	surnā
Dari reading?	surnā
Iranian reading?	sornâ
Tajik reading?	surno

Noun

Dari	سرنا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сурно

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

1. (music) zurna

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: zurna
• → Ottoman Turkish: زورنا (zurnâ), زرنا (zurna)
  • Turkish: zurna
  • → Bulgarian: зурна́ (zurná)
  • → Classical Syriac: ܙܘܪܢܐ (zurnā)
  • → English: zurna
  • → Georgian: ზურნა (zurna)
    • → Bats: ზურნ (zurn)
  • → Greek: ζουρνάς (zournás)
  • → Macedonian: зурла (zurla)
  • → Middle Armenian: զուռնայ (zuṙnay), զոռնա (zoṙna)
    • Armenian: զուռնա (zuṙna)
  • → Russian: зурна́ (zurná)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: зу̑рна

    Latin script: zȗrna

• → Kazakh: сырнай (syrnai)
• → Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 嗩吶 / 唢呐 (suǒnà), 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^[1], volume 50, number 3, pages 203–207