سنور
Arabic
Alternative forms
- سُنَّار (sunnār)
Etymology
Claimed by Hommel to be a borrowing from Classical Syriac. However the concrete original form in Arabic and the concrete Syriac etymon are debatable. According to Hommel the Aramaic etymon is ܫܘܢܪܐ (šunnāra) as evidenced by a variant شُنَارَى (šunārā), and deriving from Byzantine Greek σαίνουρος (saínouros) – whereas Fraenkel surmises onomatopoesis in Aramaic –, however modern dialects exhibit سَنُّور (sannūr), which is also very prominent in Omani Arabic, and there is a Syriac ܣܢܘܪܐ (sannūrā), as well as Akkadian 𒊓𒀀 (šurānu [SA.A]) and Hebrew שֻׁנָּר (šunnār), so inheritance from Proto-Semitic cannot be completely excluded – it has to be kept in mind as well that a part of the forms might be from Aramaic with the rest being genuine, the result being current concurrence between a native Arabic and a Syriac word in Arabic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sin.nawr/
Noun
سِنَّوْر • (sinnawr) m (plural سَنَانِير (sanānīr))
Declension
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | سِنَّوْر sinnawr |
السِّنَّوْر as-sinnawr |
سِنَّوْر sinnawr |
| Nominative | سِنَّوْرٌ sinnawrun |
السِّنَّوْرُ as-sinnawru |
سِنَّوْرُ sinnawru |
| Accusative | سِنَّوْرًا sinnawran |
السِّنَّوْرَ as-sinnawra |
سِنَّوْرَ sinnawra |
| Genitive | سِنَّوْرٍ sinnawrin |
السِّنَّوْرِ as-sinnawri |
سِنَّوْرِ sinnawri |
| Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
| Informal | سِنَّوْرَيْن sinnawrayn |
السِّنَّوْرَيْن as-sinnawrayn |
سِنَّوْرَيْ sinnawray |
| Nominative | سِنَّوْرَانِ sinnawrāni |
السِّنَّوْرَانِ as-sinnawrāni |
سِنَّوْرَا sinnawrā |
| Accusative | سِنَّوْرَيْنِ sinnawrayni |
السِّنَّوْرَيْنِ as-sinnawrayni |
سِنَّوْرَيْ sinnawray |
| Genitive | سِنَّوْرَيْنِ sinnawrayni |
السِّنَّوْرَيْنِ as-sinnawrayni |
سِنَّوْرَيْ sinnawray |
| Plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | سَنَانِير sanānīr |
السَّنَانِير as-sanānīr |
سَنَانِير sanānīr |
| Nominative | سَنَانِيرُ sanānīru |
السَّنَانِيرُ as-sanānīru |
سَنَانِيرُ sanānīru |
| Accusative | سَنَانِيرَ sanānīra |
السَّنَانِيرَ as-sanānīra |
سَنَانِيرَ sanānīra |
| Genitive | سَنَانِيرَ sanānīra |
السَّنَانِيرِ as-sanānīri |
سَنَانِيرِ sanānīri |
References
- Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred, editors (2005) Arabische Dialektgeographie. Eine Einführung (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 78) (in German), Leiden: Brill, page 200
- Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred, editors (2010) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100) (in German), Leiden: Brill, page 326–329
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 112
- Freytag, Georg (1833), “سنور”, 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 365
- Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 314
- Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 382