صانونة

Probably an Aramaic diminutive, form as in جَامُور (jāmūr), شَاقُول (šāqūl) etc., from the etymon of صِنّ (ṣinn), صَنّ (ṣann, “a kind of basket with a lid”), since without modern equipment it must have been some smaller crockware rather than the currently most frequent metal pans that contain the dip.

• IPA^(key): /sˤaː.nuː.na/

صَانُونَة • (ṣānūna) f (collective)

1. (Yemen) hot sauce, gravy or spicy stew from vegetables usually joined with fish or meat
   • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, pages 156–157:

     أَنَا طَبَخْتُ صَانُونَةَ سَمَكٍ وَكَبْسَةَ أُرُزٍّ بِاللَّحْمِ. وَطَبَخَتْ تَاتْيَانَا بَاسْتَا بِاللَّحْمِ، وَشُورْبَةَ الْمَلْفُوفِ بِالطَّرِيقَةِ الرُوسِيّةِ (Shchi).

     ʔanā ṭabaḵtu ṣānūnata samakin wakabsata ʔuruzzin bi-l-laḥmi. waṭabaḵat tātyānā bāstā bi-l-laḥmi, wašūrbata l-malfūfi bi-ṭ-ṭarīqati r-rūsiyyati (Shchi).

     I prepared fish sanoona and rice kabsa with meat, and Tatyana pasta with meat, and a Russian-style cabbage soup (shchi).