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)

1. palace, seraglio, court, the official residence of a head of state or other dignitary

   Near-synonyms: دربار (derbar), دركاه (dergâh)

2. (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)

1. Saray (a town and district of Tekirdağ Province, Turkey)
2. Saray (a town and district of 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 (in French), 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