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▪ ^†ṢNBR_3 ‘solitary (palm-tree), slender in its lower part; (hence) lonely, solitary, without offspring or other assistance; (hence) young, little, child, weak; (hence?) mean, ignoble’: ^†ṣanbar, ^†ṣunbūr
▪ ^†ṢNBR_4 ‘ground that has become rough’: ^†ṣanbaraẗ
▪ ^†ṢNBR_5 ‘cold wind’: ^†ṣinnabr, pl. ṣanābirᵘ
▪ ^†ṢNBR_ ‘…’:

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▪ [v1] : Fraenkel1886: 88-89 speculates that Ar ṣunbūr ‘(water) faucet, tap’, which is hardly connected to any of the other values, may have developed from an earlier *ṣannūr which could be related to Hbr ¹ṣinnôr ‘spout, waterjet; (postBiblHbr) conduit, canal; pipe’. Accord. to the author, the dissimilation of *‑nn- > -nb‑ could be the result of the influence of ↗ʔanbūb.
▪ [v2] : 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 FawʕaL (cf. Barth1894: 169 §116.2), coined from [v3] ^†ṣanbar 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). – Or is there a Pers suffix *-bar ‘bearing, carrying’ hidden in the second part of ṣanawbar? If so, what could be the first part? ↗ṣinw ‘one of two, twin brother’ seems highly unlikely.
▪ ^†[v3] : ‘solitary, slender in its lower part (palm-tree)’ is the value that has produced most fig. meanings and derivations, among these perh. also [v2] ‘pine-tree’. – Of unknown etymology. The value ‘weak, mean, ignoble’ may be unrelated, perh. akin to ↗šanār ‘disgrace, infamy; any shameful transaction’ (which in turn is prob. of Pers origin).
▪ ^†[v4] : In ClassAr dictionaries, the meaning of ^†ṣanbaraẗ is specified as ‘ground that has become rough by reason of urine and of dung, of oxen or sheep, and the like’ – Lane iv 1872. Etymology obscure. – Any relation to ^†ṣinn ‘urine of the wabr’, ↗ṣunān ‘stink, stench of the armpit’?
▪ ^†[v5] : For ^†ṣinnabr ‘cold wind’, which has no obvious etymology, should one (with Klein1987) perh. connect Hbr ṣinnāʰ ‘coolness, cold’ (hapax in the Bible), mHbr ṣānûn ‘cool, cold’ (PP of *ṣānan), ṣinnûn ‘cooling, cold’ (vn. of ṣinnēn, D-stem, ‘to cool, cool off’) < Aram ṣnan ‘to be(come) cold’, all from *ṢNN? – There is also the conspicuously similar ^†ṣinnawr ‘niggardly man, of evil disposition’ (↗ṢNR) – but what would be the semantic relation between ‘cold wind’ and ‘niggardly’? A relation with ↗sinnawr ‘cat’ (initial s, then w!) can prob. be excluded as well.
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▪ [v1] ṣunbūr ‘the tube, pipe, that is in the [kind of leathern vessel, or bag, for water, called] ʔidāwaẗ, of iron, lead, or brass, or of other material, from which one drinks. – [aperture called] maṯʕab of a watering-trough or tank [from which the water runs out; hole\ perforation thereof, from which the water issues when it is washed; pipe (of copper or brass) by which the water runs from one tank to another in a bath; mouth of a water-pipe’ – Lane iv 1872.
▪ [v2] ṣanawbar 540 ‘pine tree’ – DHDA.
▪ [v3] ṣunbūr 620 ‘weak, vile’ (man), 791 ‘slender in its lower part, and scanty in its fruit’ (palm tree) – DHDA. – For ClassAr, cf. Lane iv 1872: ṣanbara, vb. I, ‘to become solitary, apart from others (palm-tree); to become slender in its lower part, and bared of the stumps of its branches, and scanty in its fruit’, ṣanbar or ṣunbūr (both probably correct) ‘anything slender and weak (animals, trees etc.)’; (pl.) ṣanābirᵘ ‘slender arrows’; ṣunbūr ‘solitary palm-tree, apart from others; the lower part of which becomes slender, stripped of the external parts [or the stumps of the branches]; palm-tree slender in its lower part, and bared of the stumps of it branches, scanty in its fruit; also ṣunbūraẗ, a palm-tree that comes forth from the root, or lower part, of another palm-tree, without being planted; little palm-tree that does not grow from its mother-tree; (hence, applied to a man) solitary; lonely; without offspring or brother; weak, vile, ignominious, having no family nor offspring nor assistant; mean, ignoble; young, little, weak, boy, child’. (It was applied as an epithet to Moḥammad, by the unbelievers, as also [its dimin.] ṣunaybīr, or they called him ṣunbūr meaning that he had no offspring nor brother, so that, when he should die, his name would be lost; likening him to a [solitary] palm-tree, of which the lower part had become slender, and the branches few, and which had become dry […]’.
▪ [v4] : Lane iv 1872 registers also fig. use: ^†ṣanbaraẗ ‘ground that has become rough by reason of urine and of dung, of oxen or sheep, and the like’; ʔaḫaḏtu ’l-šayʔ bi-ṣanbaratih~ṣanbūratih ‘I took the thing altogether’.
▪ [v5] : 539 ṣinnabr ‘cold clouds, cold wind (with mist or clouds)’, 694 ‘second of the days called ʔayyām al-ʕaǧūz (towards the end of winter)’ – DHDA. – Lane iv 1872, summarizing ClassAr dictionaries: ṣinnabr, originally ṣinabr, as also ṣinnibr and ṣinnabir: also ‘intense cold (of winter); hot\cold’; ṣunbūr ‘cold wind; hot wind; (hence also:) calamity, misfortune’.
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▪ [v1] : (?) Cf. Hbr ¹ṣinnôr ‘spout, waterjet; (postBiblHbr) conduit, canal; pipe’ – Fraenkel1886: 88-89. Ug ṣnr ‘Wasserrinne, ‑leitung (aus Stein)’ – Tropper2008. – Cf. also Ar ↗šann ‘(water)skin’?
▪ [v2] : prob. ↗[v3].
▪ [v3] : ?
▪ [v4] : ?
▪ [v5] ^†ṣinnabr ‘cold wind’: should one connect Hbr ṣinnāʰ ‘coolness, cold’ (hapax in the Bible), mHbr ṣānûn ‘cool, cold’ (adj.), ṣinnûn ‘cooling, cold’ (vn. Dt-stem) (ṣnan ‘to be\come cold’), all from *√ṢNN? – Or perh. also ^†ṣinnawr ‘niggardly man, of evil disposition’ (↗√ṢNR) or even ↗sinnawr ‘cat’ (√SNR)?
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▪ [v1] : Accord. to Klein1987, the BiblHbr ¹ṣinnôr ‘spout, waterjet’ occurs only Sam.II 5:8 and Ps. 42:8 and its meaning in these passages is much disputed. Of uncertain origin. Aram ṣinnōrā is prob. a Hbr loan word, cp. postBiblHbr ¹ṣinnôrāʰ ‘waterjet’, and BiblHbr ṣantêr ‘pipe, tube’ (hapax in the Bible, Zech. 4:12), perh. derived from ¹ṣinnôr ‘spout, waterjet’ through the insertion of a ‑t‑, cf. ṣanṭᵊrâʰ. BDB1906 lists the pl. ṣanṭᵊrôt ‘pipes feeding lamps with oil’ s.r. √ṢNR. – Should one also consider influence of, or relation with, Ar ↗šann ‘(water)skin’?
[v2] : See above, section CONC. – Any influence from ^†ṣinār, ṣinnār(aẗ) (< Pers čanār, Tu çınar) ‘plane-tree, platanus’ (↗ṢNR)? – Also, could the last part of the word, -bar, be an originally Pers component meaning *‘bearing, bearer of…’?
▪ [v3] : Cf. also ^†ṣinnawr ‘niggardly man, of evil disposition’ (> OttTu ṣinnevr ‘morose and niggardly’ – Redhouse1890) (↗ṢNR)?
▪ [v4] : See above, section CONC.
▪ [v5] : See above, section CONC.
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