Persian

Alternative forms

• سورنای ‎(surnây)
• سرنا ‎(sornâ)
• زرنا ‎(zornâ)

Noun

سرنای • ‎(sornây) ‎(plural سرنای‌ها ‎(sornây-hâ))

1. (music) zurna

Descendants

• > Ottoman Turkish: زورنا ‎(zurnâ)
  • Turkish: zurna
  • > Armenian: զուռնա ‎(zuṙna)
  • > Bulgarian: зурна ‎(zurna)
  • > Classical Syriac: ܙܘܪܢܐ ‎(zurnā)
  • > English: zurna
  • > Georgian: ზურნა ‎(zurna)
  • > Greek: ζουρνάς ‎(zournás)
  • > Russian: зурна ‎(zurna)
  • > Serbo-Croatian: zurna / зурна
• > Chinese
  • Mandarin: 嗩吶, 唢呐 ‎(suǒnà)

References

• Greppin, John A. C. (1991), “The Survival of Ancient Anatolian and Mesopotamian Vocabulary Until the Present”, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, volume 50, issue 3, pages 203–207