Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sarpech

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sarpech
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An ornament placed in front of the turban, worn by significant Hindu, Sikh and Muslim princes.

Example Sentences

"The Marathas made reciprocal presents of a ‘horse and sarpech to all leading members of the English settlement’."
"They had brought two pairs of shawls and three sarpeches for Ranjit Singh and one pair of shawls for Tara Singh Gheba."
"It was a pear-shaped, pinkish-red stone drilled through with a gold pin and with a gold ring at the top (Fig 1). It was Mughal, and from the notes it was evident that it was a sarpech, or turban ornament."

Etymology

From Urdu سرپیچ/Hindi सरपेच (sarpec), from Persian سرپیچ (sarpeč, “socket”).

Origin

Source language: Hindi

Word Breakdown

Root: سرپیچ, सरपेच

Inflected Forms

sarpeches (plural) sarpesh (alternative) serpech (alternative) serpeych (alternative) serpesh (alternative) sirpeach (alternative) surpaish (alternative)

Synonyms

jigha

Questions

What does sarpech mean?: An ornament placed in front of the turban, worn by significant Hindu, Sikh and Muslim princes.
Where does sarpech come from?: It is traced to Hindi.

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