شنان

Arabic

Etymology 1

Doublet of أُشْنَان (ʔušnān, saltwort).

Noun

شَنَان • (šanān) m (plural شَنَانَات (šanānāt))

  1. (obsolete) raft
    Synonyms: كَلَك (kalak), رَمَث (ramaṯ), طَوْف (ṭawf)
    • 915, At-Ṭabarī, Tārīḵ, ed. de Goeje series 3 page 1758 line 8, web here and there:
      وكان هناك موضع فيه زهاء ثلثمائة زرنوق، فأمر بأخذها فأخذت، وقرن بعضها ببعض حتى صارت كالشنانات، وطرحت إلى الماء، وركبها المقاتلة فلحقوا القوم، فقال بعضهم: […]
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Declension

Noun

شِنَان • (šinān) pl

  1. plural of variety of شَنّ (šann, waterskin)

Etymology 3

Root
ش ن ن (š-n-n)

From شَنَّ (šanna, to pour).

Adjective

شُنَان • (šunān) (feminine شُنَانَة (šunāna))

  1. diffused, spilled, spread
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “شنان”, 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 454a
  • Michael Jan de Goeje, editor (1901), Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir aṭ-Ṭabarī. Introductio, Glossarium, Addenda et Emendanda (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1901, page 317
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “شنان”, 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 1274a

Persian

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? šunān

Noun

شنان • (šonân)

  1. Alternative form of اشنان (ošnân)
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