سراب

From the root س ر ب‎ (s-r-b); compare سَرِبَ‎ (sariba, “to flow”).

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

• سارب‎
• ساربَة‎
• سرب‎
• سربَة‎
• مسرب‎

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).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sə.ɾɑːb/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /sə.ɾɑːb/

سراب • (sarāb) m (Hindi spelling सराब)

1. mirage, apparition, illusion