صحن

From Proto-Semitic, related to the root ص ف ح‎ (ṣ-f-ḥ). Akin to Ge'ez ጻሕል (ṣaḥl, “bowl, jar, pan”), Hebrew צֵלָחָת‎ (ṣelāḥāṯ, “pot”), Hebrew צַלַּחַת‎ (ṣallaḥáṯ, “dish, bowl”), Aramaic צְלֹוחִיתָא‎ / ܨܠ݀ܿܘܚܺܝܬܐ‎ (ṣlōẖīṯā, “jar”).

صَحْن • (ṣaḥn) m (plural صُحُون‎ (ṣuḥūn) or أَصْحُن‎ (ʔaṣḥun) or صِحَان‎ (ṣiḥān) or أَصْحَان‎ (ʔaṣḥān))

1. bowl, plate
2. dish, plate, meal
3. a kind of brass cymbal
4. interior, middle
   1. courtyard
   2. interior hollow part of a hoof
5. cavity of the ear
6. gift

• Gulf Arabic: صحن‎ (ṣaḥan)
• Hijazi Arabic: صحن‎ (ṣaḥan, ṣaḥin)
• South Levantine Arabic: صحن‎ (ṣaḥn)
• → Abkhaz: а–саан (a–saan)
• → Azerbaijani: səhn
• → Chagatai: صَحْن‎
  • Uzbek: sahn
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: सहन (sahan)
  • Urdu: صَحْن‎ (sahn)
• → Mabaan: cakan
• → Ottoman Turkish: صحن‎ (sahn), صحان‎ (sahan)
  • Turkish: sahan
  • → Albanian: sahan
  • → Armenian: սահան (sahan)
  • → Bulgarian: саха́н (sahán)
  • → Greek: σαγάνι (sagáni)
  • → Romanian: sahan
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: са̀хан
    • Latin script: sàhan
• → Pashto: صحن‎
• → Persian: صحن‎ (sahn)
• → Punjabi: صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn)
• → Sindhi: صحن‎
• → Swahili: sahani
  • → Gujarati: સાની (sānī)
  • → Kikuyu: thani

From the root ص ح ن‎ (ṣ-ḥ-n). Denominal from صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn, “bowl”) in the second sense.

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.ħa.na/

صَحَنَ • (ṣaḥana) I, non-past يَصْحَنُ‎‎ (yaṣḥanu) (Classical Arabic)

1. strike, beat
2. give, present something in a bowl (to acc. someone)

صِحْنَ • (ṣiḥna) (form I)

1. second-person feminine plural active imperative of صَاحَ‎ (ṣāḥa)
2. third-person feminine plural past active of صَاحَ‎ (ṣāḥa)

• “ṣlwḥy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Barth, Jakob (1893) Etymologische Studien zum semitischen insbesondere zum hebräischen Lexicon (in German), Berlin: H. Itzkowski, page 40
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “صحن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 820
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 63
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “صحن”, 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 483
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “صحن”, 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 1315
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “صحن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1656
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 552
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “صحن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 574
• H6745 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• H6747 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

صحن

1. Arabic spelling of səhn

From Arabic صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn).

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.ħan/, /sˤa.ħin/

صحَن or صحِن • (ṣaḥan or ṣaḥin) m (plural صحون‎ (ṣuḥūn))

1. plate

• صحان‎ (sahan)

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn, “bowl, plate, dish”).

صحن • (sahn) (plural صحون‎ (suhun))

1. dish, plate, especially a round and shallow one, with a knobbed cover

   Synonym: طبق‎ (tabak)

2. (architecture) courtyard, an open area, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings
3. (architecture) terrace, esplanade, any clear, level space used for public walks or drives

• Turkish: sahan
• → Albanian: sahan
• → Armenian: սահան (sahan)
• → Bulgarian: саха́н (sahán)
• → Greek: σαγάνι (sagáni)
• → Romanian: sahan
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: са̀хан
  • Latin script: sàhan

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sahan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4018
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “صحن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 756
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Catinum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 162
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “صحن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2939
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sahan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صحن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1169

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn).

صحن • (transliteration needed) m

1. courtyard

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn).

صحن • (sahn)

1. courtyard

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn).

صَحْن • (ṣaḥn) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਹਨ)

1. courtyard

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “صَحن‎”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn).

صحن (sahanu) m (Devanagari सहनु)

1. courtyard

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910), “صَحَنُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary (in English), Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “صحن”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary (in English), University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866-1938

From Arabic صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn).

• IPA^(key): /sˤaħn/, [ˈsˤɑ.ħ(ɪ)n]

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صحن • (ṣaḥn) m (plural صحون‎ (ṣḥūn))

1. plate, dish

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن‎ (ṣaḥn).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /səɦn/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /səɦn/

صَحْن • (ṣaḥn, vulg. ṣaḥan) m (Hindi spelling सहन)

1. courtyard

• “صحن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “صحن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “صحن”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.