سفينة

From Aramaic סְפינִתָּא / ܣܦܻܝܢܬܳܐ (sǝp̄īntā). Forming the root س ف ن (s-f-n). Cognate with Hebrew סְפִינָה (sᵊfīnāh).

• IPA^(key): /sa.fiː.na/
  • (Gulf Arabic) IPA^(key): /səˈfiː.nə/

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سَفِينَة • (safīna) f (plural سُفُن (sufun) or سَفَائِن (safāʔin))

1. ship, vessel
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 29:14-15:

     وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَى قَوْمِهِ فَلَبِثَ فِيهِمْ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ إِلَّا خَمْسِينَ عَامًا فَأَخَذَهُمُ ٱلطُّوفَانُ وَهُمْ ظَالِمُونَ فَأَنْجَيْنَاهُ وَأَصْحَابَ ٱلسَّفِينَةِ وَجَعَلْنَاهَا آيَةً لِلْعَالَمِينَ

     wa-laqad ʔarsalnā nūḥan ʔilā qawmihi fa-labiṯa fīhim ʔalfa sanatin ʔillā ḵamsīna ʕāman fa-ʔaḵaḏahumu ṭ-ṭūfānu wahum ẓālimūna fa-ʔanjaynāhu wa-ʔaṣḥāba s-safīnati wa-jaʕalnāhā ʔāyatan li-l-ʕālamīna

     And We certainly sent Noah to his people, and he remained among them nine hundred and fifty years, and the flood seized them while they were wrongdoers. But We saved him and the companions of the ship, and We made it a sign for the worlds.

   • 10th century, Al-Mutanabbi

     مَا كُلُّ مَا يَتَمَنَّى ٱلْمَرْءُ يُدْرِكُهُ
     تَجْرِي ٱلرِّيَاحُ بِمَا لَا تَشْتَهِي ٱلسُّفُنُ

     mā kullu mā yatamannā l-marʔu yudrikuhu
     tajrī r-riyāḥu bimā lā taštahī s-sufunu

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   Synonym: فُلْك (fulk)

• سَفِينَة فَضَائِيَّة (safīna faḍāʔiyya, “spaceship”)
• سَفِينَةُ الصَّحْرَاءِ (safīnatu ṣ-ṣaḥrāʔi, “ship of the desert”)

• Gulf Arabic: سفينة (safīna)
• South Levantine Arabic: سفينة (safīne)
• → Kurdish
  • Northern Kurdish: sefîne
• → Ottoman Turkish: سفینه (sefine)
  • Turkish: sefine
• → Persian: سفینه (safine)
• → Swahili: safina

• Ahrens, Karl (1930) “Christliches im Qoran. Eine Nachlese”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 84, page 25
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 641
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 216–217
• Garosi, Eugenio (2022 December 1) “Regional Diversity in the Use of Administrative Loanwords in Early Islamic Arabic Documentary Sources (632–800 CE): A Preliminary Survey”, in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World. From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 419
• Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, pages 37–38 footnote 10
• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 171–172
• Wagner, Max (1966) Die lexikalischen und grammatikalischen Aramaismen im alttestamentlichen Hebräisch (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 96) (in German), Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, →ISBN, page 88

From Arabic سَفِينَة (safīna).

• IPA^(key): /sfiː.na/

سفينة • (sfīna) f (plural سفينات (sfīnāt) or سفاين (sfāyin))

1. ship

   Synonym: بابور (bābūr)

From Arabic سَفِينَة (safīna).

• IPA^(key): /sa.fiː.ne/, [saˈfiː.ne]
• IPA^(key): /sa.fiː.na/, [saˈfiː.na]

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سفينة • (safīne) f (plural سفن (sufon))

1. ship

   Synonyms: باخرة (bāḵira), بابور (bābōr)

   سفينة فضاء ― safīnet faḍāʔ ― spaceship

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• سفينة فضاء (safīnet faḍāʔ, “spaceship”)
• سفينة شراعيّة (safīne širāʕiyye, “sailing ship”)
• سفينة حربيّة (safīne ḥarbiyye, “warship”)

• شختورة (šaḵtūra, “boat”), فلوكة (flōka, “boat”)