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▪ ^†SNR_3 ‘prince, lord, master, chief, chief of a tribe’: ^†²sinnawr
▪ ^†SNR_4 ‘vertebra of the upper part of the neck (of a camel); root of the tail’: ↗^†³sinnawr
▪ ^†SNR_5 ‘armour, coat made of thongs, worn in war, like a coat of mail, any weapon (of iron) or arms’: ^†sanawwar
▪ ^†SNR_6 ‘to be(come) illnatured, very perverse, cross, narrow in disposition’: ↗^†sanira, a (sanar).
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▪ [v1] sinnāraẗ ‘fishing tackle, fishhook; crochet needle’: from Aram, or Grk? See variant spelling ↗ṣinnāraẗ, with initial /ṣ/ instead of /s/.
▪ [v2] ¹sinnawr ‘cat’: unless an Akkadism (Akk > Aram > Ar), one may posit protSem *šu/in(n)ār-, *šurān- ~ *su/in(n)ār-, *surān- ‘cat’; but ComSem status remains doubtful – MilitarevKogan2005 SED II #206. Like Fraenkel1886: 43, also LandbergZetterstein1942 regard ¹sinnawr as a dimin. in FiʕʕawL, from the more basic forms ^†sunnār, ^†sunār, which also are historically attested. – Accord. to Lane iv 1872, the word is »rare in the language of the Arabs, ↗hirr and ḍaywan are more common«; some Ar lexicographers think ¹sinnawr ‘cat’ is from [v6] ^†sanira (a, sanar) ‘to be(come) illnatured, very perverse, cross, narrow in disposition’, but that also »the reverse may be the case«.
▪ ^†[v3] ^†²sinnawr ‘prince, lord, master, chief, chief of a tribe’: a var. of sanbar ‘experienced, knowledgeable, expert’? Of obscure etymology. – DHDA registers an attestation of (the phonologically close) ^†sanbar in the sense of ‘experienced, knowledgeable, expert’, which could be the basis of ‘prince, lord, master, chief’. Other phonologically close words like ^†ṣanbar, ^†ṣunbūr ‘mean, ignoble’ (^†[v3] in root entry ↗ṢNBR) or ^†ṣinnawr ‘niggardly man, of evil disposition’ and ^†⁴ṣinnāraẗ ‘homme qui, malgré sa bonne naissance, n’est ni lettré ni bien élevé; rustre’ (= [v5] in root entry ↗ṢNR) do not fit in semantically.
▪ ^†[v4] ^†³sinnawr ‘vertebra of the upper part of the neck (of a camel); root of the tail’: of obscure etymology.
▪ ^†[v5] ^†sanawwar ‘armour, coat made of thongs, worn in war, like a coat of mail, any weapon (of iron) or arms’: Ḍinnāwī2004 assumes an origin in Syr sanūrā ~ sanwartā ‘crown of the head; head-covering, headband, cap, helmet’ (PayneSmith1903). Hebbo1970 thinks (with Sachau) that the Syr word is in turn from mPers, cf. Pers serbār~servār ‘burden carried on the head, headload’, Av sara-bāra ‘head cover’ (Horn1893). – Cf. also ^†ṣinnāraẗ ‘leathern handle; handle, kind of shieldʼ (↗√ṢNR).
▪ ^†[v6] ^†sanira (a, sanar) ‘to be(come) illnatured, very perverse, cross, narrow in disposition’: some Class Ar lexicographers thought the item was denom. from [v2] sinnawr ‘cat’, but were far from sure about that: »perhaps the reverse may be the case« – Lane iv 1872.
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▪ [v1] : See ↗ṣinnāraẗ.
▪ [v2] : 605 – DHDA. – Lane iv 1872: also ^†sunnār, ^†sunār.
▪ ^†[v3] : (? – akin to ^†²sinnawr?) 641 sanbar ‘experienced, knowledgeable, expert’ – DHDA.
▪ ^†[v4] : 626 sinawwar ‘vertebra of the cattle’s neck’ – DHDA.
▪ ^†[v5] : 540 sanawwar ‘weapon worn in war’ – DHDA.
▪ ^†[v6] : …
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▪ [v1] : See variant spelling ↗ṣinnāraẗ (with initial /ṣ/ rather than /s/).
▪ [v2] : MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #206: Akk šurānu ‘cat’,¹ oAram šrn ‘wild cat’, JudAram šunnārā, šūnārā, šūrānā ‘cat’, šīnurtā ‘she-cat’, Syr šūrᵊnā ‘felis; mustela, animal quod vorat gallinas’, šūnārā ‘felis’, šᵊnārᵊtā, šānūrā ‘felis, felicula’, sannūrā, sannūrᵊtā ‘felis’, Mnd šunara ‘cat’, šinarta (f. of šunara) ‘she-cat’, Ar sunnār, sinnawr, šūnārā,² Mhr sənnáwrət, sennôret, Ḥrs sennōreh, Jib sínórt, sinúrt ‘cat’.
▪ ^†[v3] : (?) ^†sanbar ‘experienced, knowledgeable, expert’ (see section HIST)? – Similar words with initial /ṣ/ like ^†ṣanbar, ^†ṣunbūr ‘mean, ignoble’, ^†ṣinnawr ‘niggardly man, of evil disposition’ and ^†⁴ṣinnāraẗ ‘homme qui, malgré sa bonne naissance, n’est ni lettré ni bien élevé; rustre’ can hardly be cognate as they do not match semantically.
▪ ^†[v4] : ?
▪ ^†[v5] (Prob. borrowed from) Syr sanūrā ~ sanwartā ‘crown of the head; head-covering, headband, cap, helmet’ (PayneSmith1903). – Cf. also ^†ṣinnāraẗ ‘leathern handle; handle, kind of shieldʼ (↗√ṢNR).
▪ ^†[v6] : ?
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1. oAkk on; in oAkk attested as personal name; passages in which šurānu unambiguously denotes a wild cat are well known whereas there is no context definitely suggesting a meaning ‘domestic cat’. 2. Accord. to Hommel1879: 315 attested in late texts only.

▪ [v1] : See above, section CONC, and/or directly s.v. ↗ṣinnāraẗ.
▪ [v2] : MilitarevKogan2005 SED II #206: »Since a chain of borrowings (Akk > Aram > Ar > modSAr) is not unlikely, the ComSem status of the term is doubtful. An Akkadism in Aram is cautiously suggested in Kaufman1974: 154 whereas the Ar term is regarded as an Aramaism in Hommel1879: 314. Hommel’s interpretation of the Aram forms as borrowed from Grk saínouros ‘Schwanzwedler’ is definitively impossible in view of the Akk evidence (critical observations on this suggestion see already in Nöldeke1879: 1269). – Possible AfrAs parallels display a highly complicated picture.«
▪ ^†[v3]-^†[v6]: ?
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sinnāraẗ سِنّارة , pl. sanānīrᵘ

√SNR

n.f.

fishing tackle, fishhook; crochet needle – WehrCowan1979.

▪ From Aram, or Grk? See variant spelling ↗ṣinnāraẗ, with initial /ṣ/ instead of /s/.
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▪ See ↗ṣinnāraẗ.
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▪ See variant spelling ↗ṣinnāraẗ (with initial /ṣ/ rather than /s/).
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▪ See above, section CONC, and/or directly s.v. ↗ṣinnāraẗ.
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¹sinnawr سِنَّوْر , pl. sanānīrᵘ

√SNR

cat – WehrCowan1979.

▪ Unless an Akkadism (Akk > Aram > Ar, see COGN), one may posit protSem *šu/in(n)ār-, *šurān- ~ *su/in(n)ār-, *surān- ‘cat’; but ComSem status remains doubtful – MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #206.
▪ LandbergZetterstein1942 regard ¹sinnawr as a dimin. in FiʕʕawL, from the more basic forms ^†sunnār, ^†sunār, which also are historically attested.
▪ Accord. to Lane iv 1872, the word is »rare in the language of the Arabs, ↗hirr and ḍaywan are more common«; some Ar lexicographers think ¹sinnawr ‘cat’ is from ^†sanira (a, sanar) ‘to be(come) illnatured, very perverse, cross, narrow in disposition’, but also »the reverse may be the case«.
▪ Puzzling homonyms: ^†²sinnawr ‘prince, lord, master, chief, chief of a tribe’ and ^†³sinnawr ‘vertebra of the upper part of the neck (of a camel); root of the tail’. Phonologically close are also ^†sanawwar ‘armour, coat made of thongs, worn in war, like a coat of mail, any weapon (of iron) or arms’ as well as lexemes with initial /ṣ/ like ^†ṣinnawr ‘niggardly man, of evil disposition’ (↗√ṢNR) or ^†ṣinnabr ‘cold clouds, cold wind (with mist or clouds)’ (↗√ṢNBR).
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▪ 605 – DHDA. – Lane iv 1872: also ^†sunnār, ^†sunār.
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▪ MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #206: Akk šurānu ‘cat’,³ oAram šrn ‘wild cat’, JudAram šunnārā, šūnārā, šūrānā ‘cat’, šīnurtā ‘she-cat’, Syr šūrᵊnā ‘felis; mustela, animal quod vorat gallinas’, šūnārā ‘felis’, šᵊnārᵊtā, šānūrā ‘felis, felicula’, sannūrā, sannūrᵊtā ‘felis’, Mnd šunara ‘cat’, šinarta (f. of šunara) ‘she-cat’, Ar sunnār, sinnawr, šūnārā,⁴ Mhr sənnáwrət, sennôret, Ḥrs sennōreh, Jib sínórt, sinúrt ‘cat’.
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3. oAkk on; in oAkk attested as personal name; passages in which šurānu unambiguously denotes a wild cat are well known whereas there is no context definitely suggesting a meaning ‘domestic cat’. 4. Accord. to Hommel1879: 315 attested in late texts only.

DISC ▪ MilitarevKogan2005 SED II #206: »Since a chain of borrowings (Akk > Aram > Ar > modSAr) is not unlikely, the ComSem status of the term is doubtful. An Akkadism in Aram is cautiously suggested in Kaufman1974: 154 whereas the Ar term is regarded as an Aramaism in Hommel1879: 314. Hommel’s interpretation of the Aram forms as borrowed from Grk saínouros ‘Schwanzwedler’ is definitively impossible in view of the Akk evidence (critical observations on this suggestion see already in Nöldeke1879: 1269). – Possible AfrAs parallels display a highly complicated picture.«
▪ Neither homonymous ^†²sinnawr ‘prince, lord, master, chief, chief of a tribe’ (↗^†SNR_3) and ^†³sinnawr ‘vertebra of the upper part of the neck (of a camel); root of the tail’ (↗^†SNR_4) nor phonologically close items like ^†sanawwar ‘armour, weapon’ (↗^†SNR_5) or ^†ṣinnawr (initial /ṣ/!) ‘niggardly man, of evil disposition’ can with all likelihood be cognate as these do not match semantically.
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