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Persian
- شناه (šināh), شنار (šinār), شناو (šināw), شناب (šināb), آشناه (āšnāh), آشنه (āšna), آشناب (āšnāb), شیناب (šīnāb), آشنا (āšnā), اشنا (ašna), شناز (šināz)
Etymology
Attested as Middle Persian (šnāz, “swimming”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to swim”), compare Avestan 𐬯𐬥𐬁 (snā) and Sanskrit स्नान (snāna, “bathing”).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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šinā
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Dari reading?
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šinā
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Iranian reading?
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šenâ
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Tajik reading?
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šino
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Noun
شنا • (šenâ)
- swimming
References
- Blochmann, Heinrich (1872) The Prosody of the Persians According to Saifi, Jami and Other Writers, Calcutta, page 8 of the preface
- Buyaner, David (2006) “On the Designation of ‘water–skin’ in some Languages of Central Asia”, in Acta Orientalia, volume 67, pages 115–125
- Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 176 Nr. 792
- Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 431
- Vullers, Johann August (1855) “, آشنا آشناه”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 40a
- Vullers, Johann August (1855) “اشنا”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 105b
- Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “شنار”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 468
- Wolff, Fritz (1935) Glossar zu Firdosis Schahname (in German), Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, page 575a