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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ṣinnāraẗ صِنّارة 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Jul2021
√ṢNR 
n.f. 
hook, fishhook – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ Hist. also ‘head-piece of the spindle’. – Prob. borrowed from Syr ṣenārtā, ṣenār, ṣennūrtā ‘fishing hook, fishing line’, Aram ṣinnōrā, TargAram ṣînnôrâ ‘hook’ (related to Hbr ²ṣinnôr ‘hole [for the door], door socket, hinge-socket; [postBibl also:] fork’, postBiblHbr ²ṣinnôrāʰ ‘knitting needle; hook’?), which are of unknown provenience. – Cf. perh. also Hbr ṣinnāʰ (√ṢNN!) ‘fishing hook’ (hapax in the Bible; of uncertain origin, perh. orig. meaning ‘large basket’ and related to Aram ṣinnâ ‘basket’, Ar ↗ṣann1 – Klein1987). See below, section DISC.
▪ There is also ↗sinnāraẗ (with /s/, not /ṣ/), of the same meaning.
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▪ 609 ‘iron spindle-head’ – DHDA.
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▪ Cf. prob. Aram ṣinnôrâ, TargAram ṣînnôrâ ‘hook’, Syr ṣennūrtā, postBiblHbr ²ṣinnôr ‘door socket; fork’, ²ṣinnôrāʰ ‘knitting needle; hook’, modHbr ṣinnôrît ‘knitting needle’ (perh. also Hbr ²ṣinnôr ‘hole [for the door], door socket, hinge-socket’) – Fraenkel1886, Klein1987.
▪ Cf. also Hbr ṣinnāʰ ‘fishing hook’ (hapax in the Bible) (Klein1987)?
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▪ Accord. to Fraenkel1886, the Aram items listed above are perh. of Pers origin (no details given though).
▪ The word exists also as ↗sinnāraẗ, with initial /s/ instead of /ṣ/.
▪ BadawiHinds1986 mark EgAr ṣunnāraẗ~ṣinnāraẗ ‘fishhook’ as a borrowing from a Tu sinare ‘fishhook’, but the latter is hardly genuine Tu. Redhouse1968 thinks OttTu sināraʰ~sināreʰ (with /s/, and also written /sī…/) is of Grk origin,1 but there is only modGrk tsiggáli ‘hook’ which comes phonologically close (and does not look original Grk either). Could there be a relation to Tu sinarit~sinağrit ‘(a species of) fish, dentex dentex’, which is from modGrk συναγρίδα sinagrída < oGrk συναγρίς synagrís ‘dentex’ (Nişanyan_02Dec2014)? A metonymical transfer from the fish to the hook with which it is caught is actually not less likely than the other alternatives discussed above; and there is also the variant spelling with /s/, not /ṣ/ (↗sinnāraẗ), likewise meaning ‘fishhook’.
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ṢNʕ صنع 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 6Apr2023
√ṢNʕ 
“root” 
▪ ṢNʕ_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ṢNʕ_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ ṢNʕ_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to look after, to groom, to do, commit; to make, fashion, build, produce, manufacture; to be dextrous; to take for o.s.; place where rainwater gathers’ 
▪ From WSem *√ṢNʕ ‘to be(come) strong, do (something) skillfully, build, produce, make’ – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl arsenal, from Ar al-ṣināʕaẗ ‘the manufacture, industry’, or from dār al-ṣināʕaẗ ‘place of manufacture’, from ↗ṣināʕaẗ ‘manufacture, industry’, from ↗ṣanaʕa, vb. I, ‘to make, produce’. 
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ṢNM صنم 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ṢNM 
“root” 
▪ ṢNM_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ ṢNM_2 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘idol, to shape or form or picture an idol for worship’. – The philologists, however, are inclined to regard ṣanam as a borrowing from Hbr (also said to be from Pers). 
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