sorna

The sornā or sornāy (, also surnā, surnāy and also Zurna) is an ancient Iranian woodwind instrument.

==Etymology== The word was most likely borrowed from an unknown Indo-European cognate of Luwian 𒍪𒌨𒉌 (zurni, “horn”), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (ṡṛṅga, “horn”), Latin cornū, and English horn, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. A folk etymology explains that the word sorna is a Pahlavi derivative of sūrnāy (literally "strong flute"), which is a compand of 'sūr-' (strong) and '-nāy' (flute). According to such folk etymology, it was called "strong flute" due to its double-reed-construction rather than usual nāy (), which was made of a single tube of cane, while another folk etymology believes that the first part of word of sorna, is from sūr- again from Pahlavi and New-Persian, meaning the "banquet, meal and feast", thus the "banquet-flute".