# سرای
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* سارای (saray), سرا (sera)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سرای (sarây, “mansion, palace”), from Middle Persian slʾd (srāy, “hall, house”).

### Noun

سرای • (seray, saray)
* palace, seraglio, court, the official residence of a head of state or other dignitary
    Synonym: دربار (derbar)
* (in general) palace, mansion, any large, expensive and lavishly ornate residence
    Synonym: قصر (kasr)

#### Derived terms

* آق سرای (ak saray, “a city and province of Turkey”)
* اسكی سرای (eski saray, “the old palace of Istanbul”)
* سرای آغاسی (saray ağası, “any attendant in the palace”)
* سرای آلتی (saray altı, “space below a palace”)
* سرای بورونی (saray burunu, “Sarayburnu”)
* سرای بوسنه (saray bosna, “Sarajevo”)
* سرایلو (saraylı, “possessed of palaces”)
* كروانسرای (kervanseray, “caravanserai”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: saray
* → Albanian: saraj
* → Armenian: սարայ (saray), սառայ (saṙay), սառա (saṙa)
* → Bulgarian: сара́й (saráj)
* → English: serai, sarai, Sarai
* → Greek: σεράι (serái)
* → Hungarian: szeráj
* → Macedonian: сарај (saraj)
* → Romanian: serai
* → Serbo-Croatian: sàraj / са̀рај

### Proper noun

سرای • (saray)
* Saray (a town and district in Tekirdağ province, Turkey)
* Saray (a town and district in Van province, Turkey)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: Saray

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “saray1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4071
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سرای”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 266b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سرای”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 671
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Palatium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1234
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سرای”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2580
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “saray”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرای”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1048
* Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Saray”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 659

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* سرا (sarâ)

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [sa.ˈɾɑːj]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sä.ɾɑ́ːj]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sä.ɾɑ́ːj]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sä.ɾɑ́ːj]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [sä.ɾɔ́ːj]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [sæ.ɹɒ́ːj]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [sä.ɾɔ́j]

### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian slʾd (srāy, “hall, house”), from Old Persian *srāda, from Proto-Iranian *thrāya (“to protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *trā-yo-, suffixed form of *terh₂- (“to cross over”).
Compare Old Armenian սրահ (srah, “hall; curtain”), սրահակ (srahak, “curtain”), Judeo-Persian סראה (srāh, “vestibule”), Arabic سُرَادِق (surādiq, “awning, tent; pavilion, canopy”), and Classical Mandaic ࡎࡓࡃࡒࡀ (sradqā, “pavilion, canopy; curtain”), all borrowed from Iranian.

#### Noun

سرای • (sarây) (plural سرای‌ها (sarây-hâ))
* hall
* dwelling, house
* mansion
* inn
* palace, grand edifice, king's court, seraglio

##### Derived terms

* کاروانسرای (kârvânsarây), کاروانسرا (kârvânsarâ)
* صومعه‌سرا (sowme'e-sarâ)
* سراپرده (sarâparde)
* سرایدار (sarâydâr)

##### Descendants

* → Bashkir: һарай (haray)
* → Arabic: سَرَاي (sarāy), سَرَايَة (sarāya), سَرَايَا (sarāyā)
* → Middle Armenian: սարայ (saray)
** Armenian: սարայ (saray)
* → Azerbaijani: saray
* → Ottoman Turkish: سرای (serây, saray) (see there for further descendants)
* → Karakalpak: saray
* → Tatar: сарай (saray)
* → Kazakh: сарай (sarai)
* via Turkic:
** → Russian: сара́й (saráj) (see there for further descendants)
** → Ukrainian: сара́й (saráj)
* → Uyghur: ساراي (saray)
* → Uzbek: saroy
* → Urdu: سرائے (sarā'e)

### Etymology 2

See سرودن.

#### Verb

سرای • (sorây)
* present stem form of سرودن

### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سرای”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
* Blair, Sheila S.. "Sarāy." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Brill Online, 2013. Reference. 28 November 2013 <http://brillonline.nl/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/saray-SIM_6629>
* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “srāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
* Schmitt, Rüdiger (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 1. General”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica‎, volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 449b of 445–459
* Bailey, H. W. (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 2. Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica‎, volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 465a of 459–465
* “srdqˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2013-11-28
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սրահ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 281–282
* ↑ “caravanserai”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.