سنور

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Arabic

سِنَّوْر

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic שׁוּנָּרָא / ܫܘܢܪܐ (šunnāra), ܣܢܘܪܐ (sannūrā), from Akkadian 𒊓𒀀 (šurānum), whence also Hebrew שֻׁנָּר (šunnār), ultimately non-Semitic.

Pronunciation

Noun

سِنَّوْر (sinnawrm (plural سَنَانِير (sanānīr))

  1. cat

Declension

References

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  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 112
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سنور”, 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 365
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  • Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 314
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 382