▪ [v1] : 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 ²
ṣinnôr ‘hole [for the door], door socket, hinge-socket; [postBibl also:] fork’, postBiblHbr ²
ṣinnôrāʰ ‘knitting needle; hook’?), which are of unknown provenience. – Cf. perh. also
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 a var. spelling ↗
sinnāraẗ (with /s/, not /ṣ/), of the same meaning.
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†[v2] : From Pers
čanār ‘platanus’ – Rolland2014a. – Accord. to Nişanyan, Tu
çınar is from Pers
čanār~
čanāl < mPers
čnār, which, accord. to the author, is in turn from Chin »
ç’un« (= ?; a modChin word for plane-tree is
xuánlíngmù, i.e., *‘tree of the hanging bells’, where the first component,
xuán, signifies the notion of ‘hanging’; phonologically, it could be the background of Pers
čanār, but see DISC below). – May have influenced, or been influenced by, ↗
ṣanawbar ‘pine tree’.
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†[v3] : ? =
†sanawwar (with /s/) ‘coat made of thongs, worn in war, like a coat of mail, any weapon (of iron) or arms’ (Lane iv 1872)? For the latter, Ḍinnāwī2004 assumes an origin in Syr
sanūrā ~
sanwartā ‘crown of the head; head-covering, headband, cap, helmet’ (PayneSmith1903). – Or rather related to Hbr
ṣinnāʰ ‘large shield (covering the whole body); protective wall; (nHbr) barrel shield of a revolver’, thus from Hbr √ṢNN which prob. means *‘to preserve, keep’, poss. related to Ar ↗
ṣāna (√ṢWN) – so Klein1987’s suggestion for
ṣinnāʰ…
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†[v4]
†³
ṣinnāraẗ ‘ear | oreille’ : ?
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†[v5] : Cf. also BK1860
†⁴
ṣinnāraẗ (pl.
ṣanānīrᵘ) ‘homme qui, malgré sa bonne naissance, n’est ni lettré ni bien élevé; rustre’. Similar/identical values are attested not only for
†ṣinnawr and
†⁴
ṣinnāraẗ (√ṢNR), but also for
†ṣanbar and
†ṣunbūr (↗√ṢNBR). – Any relation to ↗
šanār (< Pers?) ‘disgrace, ignominy’? Is
†ṣinnawr perh. Pers *
šanār-bar (not attested)?
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