سریش

See also: سريش‎, شريش‎, and سرېښ‎

Persian

Verb

سریش • (seriš)

  1. present stem form of سرشتن‎ (sereštan)

Noun

سریش • (seriš)

  1. lime, glue
  2. gluten, the sticky part from bran
  3. isinglass
  4. kingspear (Asphodelus gen. et spp.)
  5. desert candle (Eremurus gen. et spp.)
  6. (figurative) wailing, lamentation

Alternative forms
  • اسراش‎ (esrâš), اشراس‎ (ešrâs), سریشک‎ (serîšak)

Descendants
  • → Arabic: سِرِيش‎ (sirīš), إشْرَاس‎ (ʔišrās), إشْرِيس‎ (ʔišrīs), شِرَاس‎ (širās), شِرْيَاس‎ (širyās)
    • → Swahili: sherisi
  • → Middle Armenian: շրէշ (šrēš)
  • → Pashto: سرېښ‎ (sareẍ)

Further reading
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “سریش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “سریش”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 294
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