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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ṣanawbar صَنَوْبَر 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Jul2021
√ṢNBR 
n. 
stone pine (Pinus pinea; bot.) – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ WehrCowan1976 seems to be reluctant to treat ṣanawbar ‘stone pine’ as deriving from √ṢNBR and rather asks the user to look up the word alphabetically, under √ṢNWBR. But why shouldn’t it be an intensive formation corresponding to the 3-rad. FawʕaL (cf. Barth1894: 169 §116.2), coined from †ṣanbar ‘solitary, slender in its lower part (palm-tree)’ (↗√ṢNBR) through the insertion of -w-? If this is correct, the ‘pine tree’ is originally the *‘(very) slender one’ or the *‘solitary one’ (often standing alone).
▪ Any influence from †ṣinār, ṣinnār(aẗ) (< Pers čanār, Tu çınar) ‘plane-tree (platanus)’ (↗ṢNR)?
▪ Also, could the last part of ṣanawbar be an originally Pers component -bar *‘bearing, bearer of…’? If so, what could be the first component?
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▪ 584 ‘pine tree’ in a verse by a pre-Islamic poet – DHDA.
▪ Lane explains in detail: ṣanawbar ‘pine tree, certain kind of tree from (the roots of) which ↗zift [i.e., pitch] is obtained, green in winter and summer, the fruit of which is like small ↗lawz […]; fruit [i.e., the cone] of that tree […]’. Cf. also al-ẓill al-ṣanawbarī ‘the cone-shaped shade of the earth, on entering which the moon becomes eclipsed’.
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▪ Probably akin to ↗†ṣanbar, †ṣunbūr in the sense of ‘solitary (palm-tree), slender in its lower part; (hence also) lonely, solitary, without offspring or other assistance; (hence) young, little, child, weak; (hence?) mean, ignoble’.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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▪ Unrelated to Engl cinnabar, Fr cinabre, Ge Zinnober, etc., which are akin to Ar ↗zinǧafr.
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►ḥabb al-ṣanawbar, n., pine nut, piñon

 ►ṣanawbarī, adj., pine (adj.), piny, pinelike; pineal | al-ġuddaẗ al-ṣanawbariyyaẗ, n.f., pineal gland

For other values attached to the “root”, see ↗ṣunbūr and, for the whole picture, “root” entry ↗√ṢNBR.
 
ṢNDQ صندق 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Jul2021
√ṢNDQ 
“root” 
▪ ṢNDQ_1 ‘box, chest, trunk’ ↗ṣundūq
▪ ṢNDQ_2 ‘…’ ↗ …
 
▪ [v1] : While Lokotsch1927 thought the word may come from an ultimately Ind source, Rolland2014 and Nişanyan2019_06Sept2019 posit a Grk origin.
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▪ [v1] ↗ṣundūq
▪ [v2] ↗ …
 
▪ [v1] : Aram ṣəndūḳā (Nişanyan_06Sept2019)
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▪ [v1] : Lokotsch1927 #1826 assumes a prob. Ind origin but does not give further details. – Rolland2014a thinks the etymon is Grk sundókos ‘recipient, container’, from prefix sun‑ ‘together’ + déχ-omai ‘to receive, take, accept’, from IE *dek‑ ‘dto.’ (cf. also ↗funduq < Grk pan-doχeîon); reimported into Grk as sánduks ‘case, suitcase’ (classified by Beekes2010 simply as »Pre-Greek«). Instead of sun‑ + déχ-omai, Nişanyan_06Sept2019 posits Grk συνθήκη sunthḗkē, from sun‑ + tíθ-emi, θe- ‘to put’.
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▪ Tu sandık ‘chest’, Tu sanduka ‘coffin’ ↗ṣundūq
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