صنعت

Arabic

Verb

صَنَعْتُ • (ṣanaʕtu) (form I)

1. first-person singular past active of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)

Verb

صُنِعْتُ • (ṣuniʕtu) (form I)

1. first-person singular past passive of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)

Verb

صَنَعْتَ • (ṣanaʕta) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular past active of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)

Verb

صُنِعْتَ • (ṣuniʕta) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular past passive of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)

Verb

صَنَعْتِ • (ṣanaʕti) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular past active of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)

Verb

صُنِعْتِ • (ṣuniʕti) (form I)

1. second-person feminine singular past passive of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)

Verb

صَنَعَتْ • (ṣanaʕat) (form I)

1. third-person feminine singular past active of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)

Verb

صُنِعَتْ • (ṣuniʕat) (form I)

1. third-person feminine singular past passive of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَنْعَة (ṣanʕa, “craft, trade, art”); compare Azerbaijani sənət, Bashkir сәнғәт (sənğət), Kazakh санат (sanat), Turkmen sungat, Uyghur سەنئەت (sen'et) and Uzbek sanʼat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɒˈnɒt]
• (vulgarly also) IPA^(key): [zɒˈnɒt]

Noun

صنعت • (sanʼat, zanʼat) (definitive accusative صنعتی (sanʼatı, zanʼatı), plural صنعات (sanʼaat, zanʼaat))

1. art, the conscious production or arrangement of elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions

   Synonym: فن (fann)

2. trade, craft, handicraft, a branch of skilled work, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill
3. craft, dexterity, ingenuity, the ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways

   Synonyms: اوسته‌لق (ustalık), معرفت (maʼrifet), هنر (hüner)

4. (by extension) ability, skill, the innate, learned, or acquired capacity or competence to do something well

   Synonym: مهارت (maharet)

5. (figuratively) trick, artifice, any skillful and artful act or instance of ingeniousness

Derived terms

• صنعت اوكرتمك (sanʼat öğretmek, “to teach a trade”)
• صنعت صاتمق (sanʼat satmak, “to boast of being skillful”)
• صنعت چیقارمق (sanʼat çıkarmak, “to invent or introduce an art”)
• صنعتسز (sanʼatsız, “in which no skill is shown”)
• صنعتكار (sanʼatkâr, “artist; artisan”)
• صنعتلو (sanʼatlı, “ingenious, skillful”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: sanat
• → Albanian: zanat
• → Armenian: սանաթ (sanatʻ)
• → Bulgarian: заная́т (zanaját)
• → Macedonian: занат (zanat)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: за̀на̄т

  Latin script: zànāt

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sanat2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4054
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “san'at”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1102
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صنعت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 768
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Artificium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 88
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صنعت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2992
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sanat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صنعت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1187

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic صَنْعَة (ṣanʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [san.ʔat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sän.ʔät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sän.ʔät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sä.nät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sä.nät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæn.ʔæt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sän.ʔät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	san'at
Dari reading?	san'at
Iranian reading?	san'at
Tajik reading?	sanʾat

Noun

Dari	صنعت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	санъат

صنعت • (san'at) (plural صنعت‌ها (san'at-hâ))

1. industry

Derived terms

• صنعتی (san'ati)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian صنعت (san'at), from Arabic صَنْعَة (ṣanʕa).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /sən.(ʔ)ət̪/

Noun

صَنْعَت • (san'at) f (Hindi spelling सनत)

1. industry
2. art, skill, handicraft, workmanship

References

• “صنعت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “صنعت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.