سرمایه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سرمایه (sarmâye, “capital”).

Noun

سرمایه • (sermaye)

1. (economics) capital, the durable goods available for use as a factor of production
2. (finance) capital, fund, the monetary means to acquire goods and services
3. principal, the money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated
4. (by extension) wealth, riches, a great amount of valuable assets or possessions

   Synonyms: ثروت (servet), مایه (maye)

5. (figuratively) knowledge, skills and abilities that a person has acquired over time

Derived terms

• سرمایه دار (sermaye-dar, “capitalist”)
• سرمایه‌جی (sermayeci, “one who furnishes capital”)
• سرمایه‌سز (sermayesiz, “without capital”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sermaye
• → Albanian: sermaje
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) սէրմիյէ (sērmiyē), (Van) սա̈րմիյա̈ (särmiyä)
• → Aromanian: sirmae
• → Greek: σερμαγιά (sermagiá)
• → Romanian: sermaia

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sermaye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4160
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “sermâye”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1130
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سرمایه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 675
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سرمایه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2600
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sermaye”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرمایه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1055

Persian

Etymology

From سر (sar) +‎ مایه (mâye).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [saɾ.mɑː.ja]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾ.mɑː.jä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾ.mɑː.jä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säɾ.mɑː.jä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säɾ.mɔː.jä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæɹ.mɒː.je]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säɾ.mɔ.jä]

Readings
Classical reading?	sarmāya
Dari reading?	sarmāya
Iranian reading?	sarmâye
Tajik reading?	sarmoya

Noun

Dari	سرمایه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сармоя

سَرمایه • (sarmâye)

1. (economics, business, finance) capital (money)
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume IV, verse 2609:

     […] تا نَپَرَّد زُود سَرمایَه زِ دَست

     […] tâ na-parrad zud sarmâye ze dast

     […] in order that [his] stock-in-trade may not suddenly fly out of [his] hand.

Derived terms

• سرمایه‌داری (sarmâye-dâri)
• سرمایه‌گذار (sarmâye-gozâr)
• سرمایه‌گذاری (sarmâye-gozâri)

Descendants

• → Armenian: (New Julfa) սարմայեայ (sarmayeay)
• → Iraqi Arabic: سرمايه
• → Azerbaijani: sərmayə
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: सरमाया (sarmāyā)

  Urdu: سرمایہ (sarmāya)

• → Ottoman Turkish: سرمایه (sermaye)
  • Turkish: sermaye
  • → Albanian: sermaje
  • → Armenian: (Constantinople) սէրմիյէ (sērmiyē), (Van) սա̈րմիյա̈ (särmiyä)
  • → Aromanian: sirmae
  • → Greek: σερμαγιά (sermagiá)
  • → Romanian: sermaia