سنا

See also: شنا

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
س ن و (s-n-w)

Verb

سَنَا • (sanā) I, non-past يَسْنُو‎ (yasnū)

  1. to irrigate, to water
  2. to bring up, to draw (water)
  3. to shine, to luster, to gleam
Conjugation

Verb

سَنَا • (sanā) I, non-past يَسْنُو‎ (yasnū)

  1. to shine, to luster, to gleam
Conjugation

Noun

سَنًا • (sanan) m

  1. shine, luster, gleam
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 24:43:
      أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ اللَٰهَ يُزْجِي سَحَابًا ثُمَّ يُؤَلِّفُ بَيْنَهُ ثُمَّ يَجْعَلُهُ رُكَامًا فَتَرَى الْوَدْقَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ خِلَالِهِ وَيُنَزِّلُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مِن جِبَالٍ فِيهَا مِن بَرَدٍ فَيُصِيبُ بِهِ مَن يَشَاءُ وَيَصْرِفُهُ عَن مَّن يَشَاءُ ۖ يَكَادُ سَنَا بَرْقِهِ يَذْهَبُ بِالْأَبْصَارِ
      ʔalam tara ʔanna llāha yuzjī saḥāban ṯumma yuʔallifu baynahu ṯumma yajʕaluhu rukāman fatarā l-wadqa yaḵruju min ḵilālihi wayunazzilu mina s-samāʔi min jibālin fīhā min baradin fayuṣību bihi man yašāʔu wayaṣrifuhu ʕan mman yašāʔu yakādu sanā barqihi yaḏhabu bi-l-ʔabṣāri
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

سَنَا • (sanā) m

  1. senna
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سنا”, 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 367
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سنا”, 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 (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1154
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سنا”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1448

Persian

Etymology

From French sénat.

Noun

سنا • (senâ)

  1. senate

Urdu

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit [Term?].

Adverb

سنا • (sanā) (Hindi spelling सना)

  1. always
  2. ever
  3. continually

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic سَنَا (sanā).

Noun

سنا • (sanā) m (Hindi spelling सना)

  1. senna
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