սառն

Alternative forms

• սառ (saṙ) (colloquial)
• սառը (saṙə) (before consonants)

Etymology

From Old Armenian սառն (saṙn); see below.

Pronunciation

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ˈsɑrən]

Adjective

սառն • (saṙn) (superlative ամենասառն)

1. cold, cool

   սառը ջուր ― saṙə ǰur ― cold water

   սառն աշուն ― saṙn ašun ― cold autumn

2. (figuratively) unfriendly, cold

Alternative forms

• սառ (saṙ) (dialectal)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱar-n, from *ḱer-, *ḱel- (“to freeze, become cold”). Cognate with Old Norse hjarn (“hard frozen snow, frozen earth covered with snow”); Lithuanian šerkšnas (“rime, hoarfrost”), Latvian sērsna (“snow crust”). Further cognate with Sanskrit शिशिर (śiśira, “cold, coolness”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀‎ (sarəta, “cold”), Middle Persian slt' (sard) (Persian سرد‎ (sard, “cold”)), Middle Persian slmʾk' (sarmāg) (Persian سرما‎ (sarmā, “coldness”)), Lithuanian šarmà (“hoarfrost”), Old Church Slavonic слана (slana, “hoarfrost”) and слота (slota, “bad weather”) and Old Norse héla (“hoarfrost”).

Noun

սառն • (saṙn)

1. ice

   հատոր սառանց ― hator saṙancʿ ― piece or block of ice

2. glazed frost
3. crystal

Adjective

սառն • (saṙn)

1. cold, frozen

References

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “սառն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “սառն”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “սառն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “սառն”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik