سرای

• سارای‎ (saray), سرا‎ (sera)

From Persian سرای‎ (sarây).

سرای • (seray, saray)

1. house
2. mansion
3. palace

• سرای بوسنه‎ (Saray-Bosna)

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

• سرا‎ (sarâ)

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”).[1]

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.

سرای • (sarây) (plural سرای‌ها‎ (sarây-hâ))

1. hall
2. dwelling, house
3. mansion
4. inn
5. palace, grand edifice, king's court, seraglio

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

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• “srdqˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2013-11-28
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “սրահ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 281–282