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Etymology 1

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Root
ص و ن (ṣ w n)
4 terms

Noun

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صِوَان or صُوَان (ṣiwān or ṣuwānm (plural أَصْوِنَة (ʔaṣwina))

  1. chest, cupboard, cabinet, drawer (any larger receptacle to store things)
  2. (computing) buffer
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Etymology 2

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From the giant quarries of أُمّ الْصَوَّان (ʔumm al-ṣawwān) near أَسْوَان (ʔaswān), from Coptic ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ (souan), from Egyptian swnw,

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صَوَّان (ṣawwānm (collective, singulative صَوَّانَة f (ṣawwāna))

  1. granite
  2. flint
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Further reading

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  • Aston, Barbara G., Harrell, James A., Shaw, Ian (2000) “2. Stone”, in Paul T. Nicholson, Ian Shaw, editors, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 5 seqq.
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “صوان”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 855
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “صوان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1750–1751
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “صوان”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 736