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Arabic
Etymology 1
From سَفِينَة (safīna, “ship”).
Root
س ف ن • (s-f-n)
- related to ships
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Uncertain, potentially borrowed from Middle Persian, compare Persian اپسان (apsân) ~ افسان (afsân) ~ فسان (fasân) prefixed forms of سان (sân, “whetstone”), Arabic سُنْبَاذَج (sunbāḏaj, “whetstone”). Likewise there are native Semitic associations with Akkadian 𒊓𒉺𒉡 (sa-pa-nu /sapānu/, “to level, to even out, to flatten, to smooth out”), Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒌑𒃻𒋤𒋤 (NA4U₂.NIG₂.SU₃.SU₃ /sapīnu/, “smoothing-stone, stone used for flattening”), and Aramaic ספנ (səpan, “to fill in empty spaces, to patch up a hold of a ship; hence to pair wood into usable planks”) connected with ship-building, Imperial Aramaic 𐡎𐡐𐡍𐡀 (sp̄enā, “plank”), and Aramaic סְפינִתָּא (sǝp̄īntā, “ship”).
Root
س ف ن • (s-f-n)
- related to paring, stripping
Derived terms
Further reading
- 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
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “س ف ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 659b–660a
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 216–217
- Freytag, Georg (1833) “س ف ن”, 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 325b
- 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
- Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 171–172
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “س ف ن”, 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, pages 1102–1103
- Lane, Edward William (1863) “س ف ن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1375
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “سفن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 482