س ن و

س ن و • (s-n-w)

1. related to drawing water
2. thence, related to elevation
3. related to shine, gleam
4. related to facilitation

Verbs

• Form I: سَنَا‎ (sanā)
  • Active participle: سَانٍ‎ (sānin)
  • Passive participle: مَسْنُوّ‎ (masnuww)
• Form II: سَنَّى‎ (sannā)
  • Verbal noun: تَسْنِيَة‎ (tasniya)
  • Active participle: مُسَنٍّ‎ (musannin)
  • Passive participle: مُسَنًّى‎ (musannan)
• Form III: سَانَى‎ (sānā)
  • Verbal noun: مُسَانَاة‎ (musānāh), سِنَاء‎ (sināʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسَانٍ‎ (musānin)
  • Passive participle: مُسَانًى‎ (musānan)
• Form IV: أَسْنَى‎ (ʔasnā)
  • Verbal noun: إِسْنَاء‎ (ʔisnāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْنٍ‎ (musnin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْنًى‎ (musnan)
• Form V: تَسَنَّى‎ (tasannā)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَنٍّ‎ (tasannin)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَنٍّ‎ (mutasannin)
• Form VIII: اِسْتَنَى‎ (istanā)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنَاء‎ (istināʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنٍ‎ (mustanin)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنًى‎ (mustanan)

Nouns

• سَنَاء‎ (sanāʔ, “splendor, gleam”)
• سَانِيَة‎ (sāniya, “water-transporting camel; noria”); pl. سَوَانٍ‎ (sawānin)
• مُسَنَّاة‎ (musannāh, “dam, jetty”); pl. مُسَنَّيَات‎ (musannayāt)

Adjectives

• سَنِيّ‎ (saniyy, “exalted; splendid”)

• Freytag, Georg (1833), “س ن و”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 367
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “س ن و”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1154–1155
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “س ن و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1448–50