سراب

From سَرِبَ (sariba, “to flow”).

• IPA^(key): /sa.raːb/

سَرَاب • (sarāb) m

1. 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.

2. phantom
3. sewage

• → Azerbaijani: sərab
• → Persian: سراب
  • → Urdu: سراب
• → Ottoman Turkish: سراب
  • Turkish: serap
• → Uzbek: sarob

سراب (serab)

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

سراب • (serab)

1. mirage, an optical phenomenon giving the illusion of a body of water

• سرابستان (serabistan, “place of mirage”)

• Turkish: serap

• 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

Borrowed from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb).

سراب • (sarâb)

1. 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 سرابی

     hāfiz či mē-nihī dil-i tu dar xayāl-i xūbān
     kay tišna sēr gardad az la'ma-yi sarābē

     Hāfiz, 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)

Borrowed from Arabic سَرَاب (sarāb).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.ɾɑːb/
• Rhymes: -ɑːb

سراب • (sarāb) m (Hindi spelling सराब)

1. mirage, apparition, illusion