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▪ Fraenkel1886: 88-89 speculates that Ar ṣunbūr ‘(water) faucet, tap’, which is hardly connected to any of the other values found in the root ↗√ṢNBR, may have developed from an earlier *ṣannūr which could be related to Hbr ¹ṣinnôr ‘spout, waterjet; (postBibl) conduit, canal; pipe’. Accord. to the author, the dissimilation of *‑nn- > -nb‑ could be the result of the influence of ↗ʔanbūb.
▪ Should one also consider influence of Ar ↗šann ‘(water)skin’?
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▪ Lane iv 1872 gives the values as in ClassAr dictionaries: 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’.
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▪ (?) Hbr ¹ṣinnôr ‘spout, waterjet; (postBibl) conduit, canal; pipe’ – Fraenkel1886: 88-89. – Ug ṣnr ‘Wasserrinne, ‑leitung (aus Stein)’ – Tropper2008.
▪ (?) (Influence of?) Ar ↗šann ‘(water)skin’?
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▪ Accord. to Klein1987, the possible cognate BiblHbr ¹ṣinnôr ‘spout, waterjet’ occurs only in 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. – Cf. also postBiblHbr ¹ṣinnôrāʰ ‘waterjet’, as well as perh. 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.
▪ Ar ↗šann ‘(water)skin’ is close in meaning but prob. too far from ṣunbūr to have had any influence.
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For other values attached to the “root”, see ↗ṣanawbar and, for the whole picture, “root” entry ↗√ṢNBR.

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