سرایت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سِرَايَة (sirāya).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /si.raː.ˈjat/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sɪ.ɾɑː.ját̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sɪ.ɾɑː.ját̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [si.ɾɔː.ját̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [se.ɹɒː.jǽt̪]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [si.ɾɔ.ját̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	sirāyat
Dari reading^?	sirāyat
Iranian reading^?	serâyat
Tajik reading^?	siroyat

Noun

سرایت • (serâyat)

(epidemiology) transmission, contagion, infection (of a disease)
penetration, entry, circulation (in general)
- c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 132:
  یا رب شب هجران چه بلاست که هرگز
  در وی نکند جز نفس صبح سرایت
  yā rab šab-i hijrān či balā-st ki hargiz
  dar-i way na-kunad juz nafas-i subh sirāyat
  O Lord, what a calamity the night of departure [from the beloved] is! For never
  Does anything penetrate her door except for the breath of dawn [metaphor: morning breeze].
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

سرایت کردن (serâyat kardan, “to spread”)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “سرایت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim