سرحد

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian سرحد.

Noun

سرحد • (serhadd)

  1. border

References

  • Mallouf, Nassif (1856), “frontière”, in Dictionnaire français-turc, 2nd edition, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 294

Persian

Etymology

From سر (sar) +‎ حد (hadd).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? sarhad
Dari reading? sarhad
Iranian reading? sarhad
Tajik reading? sarhad

Noun

Dari سرحد
Iranian Persian
Tajik сарҳад

سرحد • (sarhadd) (plural سرحدات)

  1. border, frontier
    Synonym: مرز (marz)

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:
    Hindi: सरहद (sarhad)
    Urdu: سرحد (sarhad)
  • Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਸਰਹੱਦ (sarhadda)
    Shahmukhi script: سرحد (sarhad)

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 • (sarhadf (Hindi spelling सरहद)

  1. border, frontier
    Synonym: سِیما (sīmā)
  2. outskirts
  3. (military) front-line
  4. extent (ie. extent or corner of something)
  5. (figuratively) difference, distinction

Declension

Declension of سرحد
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

  1. ^ سرحد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

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