Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "In English, a saray (Arabic: السراي; Turkish: sarayı) (also seray), with the variant saraya (السرايا) (also seraya), is a castle, palace or government building which was considered to have particular administrative importance in Arab parts of the former Ottoman Empire. Seray may also be spelt serail in English, via French influence, in which case the L is (in principle) silent. The term saray is Turkish, and comes from the Persian word سرای (sarāy) meaning "palace".The English word "saray" corresponds to the Arabic term, with its particular historic meaning. The English word "saray" does not correspond to "saray" in Persian; in such cases the corresponding English term is simply "palace". The same logic would generally be applied to Punjabi, for example Akbari Sarai in Lahore, Punjab, would be more obviously described as a palace than as a saray.A seraya should not be confused with a seraglio, though the origin of the words is probably the same."@en }
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- Saray_(building) abstract "In English, a saray (Arabic: السراي; Turkish: sarayı) (also seray), with the variant saraya (السرايا) (also seraya), is a castle, palace or government building which was considered to have particular administrative importance in Arab parts of the former Ottoman Empire. Seray may also be spelt serail in English, via French influence, in which case the L is (in principle) silent. The term saray is Turkish, and comes from the Persian word سرای (sarāy) meaning "palace".The English word "saray" corresponds to the Arabic term, with its particular historic meaning. The English word "saray" does not correspond to "saray" in Persian; in such cases the corresponding English term is simply "palace". The same logic would generally be applied to Punjabi, for example Akbari Sarai in Lahore, Punjab, would be more obviously described as a palace than as a saray.A seraya should not be confused with a seraglio, though the origin of the words is probably the same.".