س ن و

Arabic

Root

س ن و • (s-n-w)

1. related to drawing water
2. thence, related to elevation
3. related to shine, gleam
4. related to facilitation

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: سَنَا (sanā)
  • Active participle: سَانٍ (sānin)
  • Passive participle: مَسْنُوّ (masnuww)
• Form II: سَنَّى (sannā)
  • Verbal noun: تَسْنِيَة (tasniya)
  • Active participle: مُسَنٍّ (musannin)
  • Passive participle: مُسَنًّى (musannan)
• Form III: سَانَى (sānā)
  • Verbal noun: مُسَانَاة (musānāh), سِنَاء (sināʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسَانٍ (musānin)
  • Passive participle: مُسَانًى (musānan)
• Form IV: أَسْنَى (ʔasnā)
  • Verbal noun: إِسْنَاء (ʔisnāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْنٍ (musnin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْنًى (musnan)
• Form V: تَسَنَّى (tasannā)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَنٍّ (tasannin)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَنٍّ (mutasannin)
• Form VIII: اِسْتَنَى (istanā)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنَاء (istināʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنٍ (mustanin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنًى (mustanan)

Nouns

• سَنَاء (sanāʔ, “splendor, gleam”)
• سَانِيَة (sāniya, “water-transporting camel; noria”); pl. سَوَانٍ (sawānin)
• مُسَنَّاة (musannāh, “dam, jetty”); pl. مُسَنَّيَات (musannayāt)

Adjectives

• سَنِيّ (saniyy, “exalted; splendid”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “س ن و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 367
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “س ن و”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1154–1155
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “س ن و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1448–50