سورسات

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سرسات (sürsat), سورصات (sürsat)

Etymology

From Persian سورسات (sursât).

Noun

سورسات • (sürsat)

1. requisitions, contributions raised by the army on the route of war

Descendants

• → Turkish: sürsat

Further reading

• sürsat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Persian

Alternative forms

• سرسات (sorsât), سورصات (sursāt), سوروسات (sūrūsāt), سیورسات (suyūrsāt, soyūrsāt), سرسات (sursāt)

Etymology

Because of the measure a likely Turkic or Mongolic borrowing but the root is uncertain, first attested in both Persian and Ottoman Turkish in the 17th century, perhaps from Azerbaijani sür (“to drive, to push, to send”) + sat (“to sell”), for contributions may involve forced sales or “sales” for free, and the frequent variant سیورسات (soyursât) is perhaps aligned to سیورغال (soyurğâl, “hereditary benefice”).

Noun

سورسات • (sursât)

1. marching rations, requisitions, contributions raised by the army and various officials for war, the reigner when he travelled, couriers, and state guests squired by mehmandars

Descendants

• → Avar: сурсат (sursat)
• → Armenian: սուրսաթ (sursatʻ), սուրուսաթ (surusatʻ) [17th c.]
• → Azerbaijani: sursat
• → Chechen: сурсат (sursat)
• → English: soorsaut
• → Georgian: სურსათი (sursati)
• → Lak: сурсат (sursat)
• → Lezgi: суьрсет (sürset)
• → Ottoman Turkish: سورسات (sürsat), سرسات (sürsat), سورصات (sürsat)
  • → Turkish: sürsat

References

• Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ turecko-tatarskix narěčij [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 643a
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “سورسات”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎^[1] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 287–288
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎^[2] (in German), volume 4, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 289–290
• Ekbal, Kamran (1983) “sursat – Eine Untersuchung zum persischen Steuerwesen in der Kadscharenzeit”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[3] (in German), volume 133, pages 149–170
• Контрибуция on the Russian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ru
• Kontribution on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de