صن

See also: ضن

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ص ن ن (ṣ-n-n)

Verb

صَنَّ • (ṣanna) I, non-past يَصِنُّ‎ (yaṣinnu)

  1. to be fetid, to have a foul odour
Conjugation

Noun

صِنّ • (ṣinn) m

  1. urine of the hyrax, which is fetid and was used medicinally
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ibn al-Bayṭār to this entry?)
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic צִנָּא / צִינָּא (ṣinnā, “a large palm leaf basket”), also צַנָּא (ṣannā), סַנָּא (sannā), from Akkadian 𒊓𒀭𒉡 (/⁠sannu⁠/, “net”).

Noun

صِنّ or صَنّ • (ṣinn or ṣann) m (plural أَصْنَان (ʔaṣnān)) (obsolete, Yemen)

  1. a kind of large basket with a lid
Declension

Verb

صُنْ • (ṣun) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of صَانَ (ṣāna)

Verb

صُنَّ • (ṣunna) (form I)

  1. second-person feminine plural active imperative of صَانَ (ṣāna)
  2. third-person feminine plural past active of صَانَ (ṣāna)

Verb

صِنَّ • (ṣinna) (form I)

  1. third-person feminine plural past passive of صَانَ (ṣāna)

References

  • “ṣn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “صن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 845
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 76
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “صن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 523
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “صن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1373–1374
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “صن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1730
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “صن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 614
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “صن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 727
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