سرحد
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Noun
سرحد • (serhadd)
References
- Mallouf, Nassif (1856), “frontière”, in Dictionnaire français-turc, 2nd edition, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 294
Persian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /sar.ˈhad/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [säɾ.hád̪]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sæɹ.hǽd̪̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [säɾ.hád̪]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | sarhad |
| Dari reading? | sarhad |
| Iranian reading? | sarhad |
| Tajik reading? | sarhad |
Noun
| Dari | سرحد |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | сарҳад |
سرحد • (sarhadd) (plural سرحدات)
Derived terms
- سرحدی (sarhaddi, “(adjective) border”)
- سرحددار (sarhadd-dâr, “border guard”)
- سرحدبان (sarhadd-bân, “border guard”)
- سرحدچی (sarhadd-či, “border guard”)
Descendants
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: سرحد (särhad)
- → Turkmen: serhet
- → Zazaki: serhed
- → Uzbek: sarhad
- → Hindustani:
- → Punjabi:
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian سَرْحَد (sarhad, “border”). First attested in c. 1657 as Middle Hindi سرحد (srḥd /sarhad/).[1]. By surface analysis, سَر (sar, “head”) + حَد (had, “boundary”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /səɾ.ɦəd̪/
Audio (Pakistan): (file) - Rhymes: -əd̪
- Hyphenation: سَر‧حَد
Noun
سَرْحَد • (sarhad) f (Hindi spelling सरहद)
- border, frontier
- Synonym: سِیما (sīmā)
- outskirts
- (military) front-line
- extent (ie. extent or corner of something)
- (figuratively) difference, distinction
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | سَرْحَد (sarhad) | سَرْحَدیں (sarhadẽ) |
| oblique | سَرْحَد (sarhad) | سَرْحَدوں (sarhadõ) |
| vocative | سَرْحَد (sarhad) | سَرْحَدو (sarhado) |
Derived terms
- سَرْحَد حاصِل (sarhad hāsil, “customs duty”)
References
Further reading
- “سرحد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “سر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 374
- Platts, John T. (1884), “سرحد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 652
- Fallon, S. W. (1879), “سرانجام”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 759
- John Shakespear (1834), “سرحد”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1064