Meaning of سر | Babel Free

Definitions

1. head (part of body)
2. classifier for people and animals.
3. leader, chief, head
4. secret
5. slide, gliding (e.g. on ice)
6. transliteration of English sir (“respectful term of address”)
7. mind (ones own thoughts)
   figuratively
8. intention, desire
   idiomatic
9. the foremost or leading part of something:
10. top, top part
11. cover, lid, cap
12. start, beginning, starting point
13. tip, extremity, endpoint
14. end, conclusion
    idiomatic
15. A kind of clay.
    Sistani, dialectal

Equivalents

Examples

“سرم درد میکند.”

My head hurts.

“تو رفتی ولی فکر تو، تو سر من موند همیشه نبودت من و قلبمو ترسوند”

you left but the thought of you remained in my head / your absence always scared me and my heart

“آمریکا با ایران سر جنگ دارد.”

America wants war with Iran.

“بر سر درخت”

on the treetop

“سر دیگ شیشهای”

glass pot lid

“باد سر پاییز”

early autumn wind

“سر تا سر”

from one end to the other

“جانا من و تو نمونهٔ پرگاریم سر گرچه دو کردهایم یک تن داریم”

My love, you and I are akin to a pair of compasses; Though we are of two heads/ends, we have one body.

“این غربزدگی دو سر دارد. یکی غرب و دیگر ما که غربزدهایم. ما یعنی گوشهای از شرق. به جای این دو سر، بگذاریم دو قطب. یا دو نهایت.”

This Westoxification has two endpoints. One is the West, and the other is we who are Westoxified. We, as in a corner of the East. Instead of these two endpoints, let us say two poles. Or two extremes.

“به سر آوردن”

to bring to an end

“[…]و جیغ و داد و فریادی بلند و قشقرهای برپا گردید که آن سرش پیدا نبود.”

[…] and screams, shouts, loud cries, and general pandemonium was set up to which no end could be found.

“سر تیم برنرز لی”

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

CEFR level