سریش
See also: سريش, شريش, and سرېښ
Persian
Verb
سریش • (seriš)
- present stem form of سرشتن (sereštan)
Noun
سریش • (seriš)
- lime, glue
- gluten, the sticky part from bran
- isinglass
- kingspear (Asphodelus gen. et spp.)
- desert candle (Eremurus gen. et spp.)
- (figuratively) wailing, lamentation
Alternative forms
- اسراش (esrâš), اشراس (ešrâs), سریشک (serîšak)
Descendants
- → Arabic: سِرِيش (sirīš), إشْرَاس (ʾišrās), إشْرِيس (ʾišrīs), 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