صرمه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Byzantine Greek σύρμα (súrma).

Noun

صرمه • (sırma)

1. silver or gold thread or lace

Alternative forms

• صیرمه (sırma)
• սըրմա (sırma) — Armeno-Turkish

Descendants

• Turkish: sırma
• → Albanian: sërmë, sërme
• → Armenian: սրմա (srma), սիրմա (sirma), սռմա (sṙma), սուրմա (surma), սրմայ (srmay), սիրմայ (sirmay), սռմայ (sṙmay), սուրմայ (surmay) — traditional orthography
• → Bulgarian: съ́рма (sǎ́rma)
• → Georgian: სირმა (sirma)
• → Macedonian: ср́ма (sŕma)
• → Romanian: sîrmă, sârmă
• → Serbo-Croatian: sŕma / ср́ма

References

• Todorov, T. A., Racheva, M., editors (2010), “съ̀рма”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 7 (слòво – теря̀свам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 677
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “صرمه”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 487b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صرمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 778
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sırma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صیرمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, pages 1198–1199

Etymology 2

From صارمق (sarmak, “to roll, to wrap”).

Noun

صرمه • (sarma)

1. sarma, a type of food from meat rolled with leaves

Alternative forms

• սարմա (sarma) — Armeno-Turkish

Descendants

• Turkish: sarma
• → Albanian: sarmë
• → Armenian: սարմա (sarma)
• → Aromanian: sãrmã
• → Bulgarian: сарма́ (sarmá)
• → Greek: σαρμάς (sarmás)
• → Macedonian: сарма (sarma)
• → Romanian: sarma
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: са̀рма
  • Latin script: sàrma

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صرمه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2916
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “sărmắ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[4], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 172