# سراب
## Arabic
### Etymology

* Root
* س ر ب (s r b)
* 4 terms
From سَرِبَ (sariba, “to flow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sa.raːb/

### Noun

سَرَاب • (sarāb) m
* mirage, fata morgana
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 24:39:وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَعْمَالُهُمْ كَسَرَابٍ بِقِيعَةٍ يَحْسَبُهُ ٱلظَّمْآنُ مَاءً حَتَّىٰ إِذَا جَاءَهُ لَمْ يَجِدْهُ شَيْئًا وَوَجَدَ ٱللَّهَ عِنْدَهُ فَوَفَّاهُ حِسَابَهُ. وَٱللَّهُ سَرِيعُ ٱلْحِسَابِ.wallaḏīna kafarū ʔaʕmāluhum kasarābin biqīʕatin yaḥsabuhu ẓ-ẓamʔānu māʔan ḥattā ʔiḏā jāʔahu lam yajidhu šayʔan wawajada l-laha ʕindahu fawaffāhu ḥisābahu. wal-lahu sarīʕu l-ḥisābi.As for the faithless, their works are like a mirage in a plain, which the thirsty man supposes to be water. When he comes to it, he finds it to be nothing; but there he finds God, who will pay him his full account, and God is swift at reckoning.
* phantom
* sewage

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: sərab
* → Persian: سراب (sarâb)
** → Urdu: سراب
* → Ottoman Turkish: سراب (serāb)
** Turkish: serap
* → Uzbek: sarob

## Chagatai
### Noun

سراب (serab)
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## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb, “mirage”).

### Noun

سراب • (serab)
* mirage, an optical phenomenon giving the illusion of a body of water

#### Derived terms

* سرابستان (serabistan, “place of mirage”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: serap

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “serap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4151
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سراب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 670
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سراب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2577
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سراب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1047

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [sa.ˈɾɑːβ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sä.ɾɑ́ːb]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sä.ɾɑ́ːb]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sä.ɾɑ́ːb]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [sä.ɾɔ́ːb̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [sæ.ɹɒ́ːb̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [sä.ɾɔ́b]

### Noun

سراب • (sarâb)
* mirage
** c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 432”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:حافظ چه می‌نهی دل تو در خیال خوبان کی تشنه سیر گردد از لمعه سرابیhāfiz či mē-nihī dil-i tu dar xayāl-i xūbān kay tišna sēr gardad az la'ma-yi sarābēHāfiz, why do you set your heart on daydreams of beauties? How shall a thirsty man become sated by the flash of a mirage?(Classical Persian transliteration)

#### Derived terms

* سرابستان (sarâbestân)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /sə.ɾɑːb/
* Rhymes: -ɑːb

### Noun

سراب • (sarāb) m (Hindi spelling सराब)
* mirage, apparition, illusion

#### Declension

Declension of سراب :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | سراب (sarāb) | سراب (sarāb) |
| oblique | سراب (sarāb) | سرابوں (sarābõ) |
| vocative | سراب (sarāb) | سرابو (sarābo) |