صارنج

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • سارنج (sarnıc), صارنیج (sarnic)
  • սարնըճ (sarnıc), սարնիճ (sarnic), սահրիճ (sahric), սահրինճ (sahrinc) — Armeno-Turkish
  • sarung (/⁠sarunc⁠/) (16th c.), sarínc (/⁠sarınç⁠/) (1611), saringh (/⁠sarınc⁠/) (1630) — Italian glossaries
  • صهریج (sahric, sıhric) — from Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سارنج (sārinj, “water tank”). The form صهریج (sahric, sıhric) is from Arabic صِهْرِيج (ṣihrīj), صَهْرِيج (ṣahrīj). Compare also Karakhanid سَرْنِجْ (sarnïǧ, “water bag made from camel skin”) (11th c.) and Chagatai [script needed] (sarnıc, “cistern”) (15th c.).

Although most dictionaries only list the pronunciation sarnVc, the spelling صارنج can also stand for sarVnc, and in some attestations it likely did, taking into consideration the transcriptions made by early Italian lexicographers as well as the Persian etymon, dialectal Turkish sarınç and Albanian saranxhë.

Noun

صارنج • (sarnıc, sarnic)

  1. cistern, tank, reservoir

Descendants

  • Turkish: sarnıç, sarınç, sareç (dialectal)
  • → Albanian: saranxhë
  • → Armenian: սառնիճ (saṙnič), սառինջ (saṙinǰ)

References

  • Redhouse (1890), page 1156a: “صارنج”, “صارنیج”
  • Sami (1883), page 566b: “سارنج” = Kelekian (1911), page 657b: “سارنج”
  • Meninski Lexicon, column 2512: “صارنج”
  • Nişanyan Sözlük, “sarnıç”
  • Clauson (1972), page 854a: “F sarnıç”
  • Siemieniec-Gołaś (2015), page 129: “sarunc” → “sarung”
  • Rocchi Ferraguto, page 136: “sarnıç” → “sarínc”
  • Rocchi Montalbano, page 171: “sarınc” → “saringh”
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