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▪ 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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hist

▪ 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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cogn

▪ 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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disc

▪ See above, section CONC.
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west

▪ Unrelated to Engl cinnabar, Fr cinabre, Ge Zinnober, etc., which are akin to Ar ↗zinǧafr.
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deriv

►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.

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