سندس

Arabic

Etymology

From Parthian or Middle Persian [script needed] (sndws, “a silk (or brocade) garment”), from Sogdian [script needed] (sndws /⁠sandus⁠/, “a silk wear”), compare also Old Armenian սնդուս (sndus) an Iranian loanword. From an Anatolian source, compare Ancient Greek σάνδυξ (sándux, “a Lydian red fabric”), likely ultimately descendant from Akkadian 𒉌𒌓𒍝𒄢 (NA₄.GUG /⁠sāmtu, sāntu, sāndu⁠/, “red stone, carnelian, cinnabar”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sun.dus/

Noun

سُنْدُس • (sundus) m

a kind of fine silk
- 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 78:246:
  وَنَهَانَا عَنْ سَبْعٍ، عَنْ خَاتَمِ الذَّهَبِ ـ أَوْ قَالَ حَلْقَةِ الذَّهَبِ ـ وَعَنْ لُبْسِ الْحَرِيرِ، وَٱلدِّيبَاجِ، وَٱلسُّنْدُسِ، وَٱلْمَيَاثِرِ.
  wanahānā ʕan sabʕin, ʕan ḵātami ḏ-ḏahabi - ʔaw qāla ḥalqati ḏ-ḏahabi - waʕan lubsi l-ḥarīri, wad-dībāji, wal-ssundusi, wal-mayāṯiri.
  And he [the Prophet Muhammad] forbade us seven [things]: to wear signets of gold – or he said "[jewellery] rings of gold" –, to wear silk [thread, cloth, or garments], silk brocade, fine silk or silk saddle-pillows [and blankets, or shabraques].

Declension

Declension of noun سُنْدُس (sundus)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سُنْدُس sundus	السُّنْدُس as-sundus	سُنْدُس sundus
Nominative	سُنْدُسٌ sundusun	السُّنْدُسُ as-sundusu	سُنْدُسُ sundusu
Accusative	سُنْدُسًا sundusan	السُّنْدُسَ as-sundusa	سُنْدُسَ sundusa
Genitive	سُنْدُسٍ sundusin	السُّنْدُسِ as-sundusi	سُنْدُسِ sundusi

Derived terms

سَنْدَسَ (sandasa, “to adorn with سُنْدُس (sundus)”)
تَسَنْدَسَ (tasandasa, “to be adorned with سُنْدُس (sundus)”)

References

Cheung, Johnny (2017) On the (Middle) Iranian borrowings in Qurʾānic (and pre-Islamic) Arabic‎^[1], Leiden: Leiden University, page 13
Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “سندس”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 693
Freytag, Georg (1833) “سندس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 364
Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 41
Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎^[4] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 4
Parthey, Gustav (1844) Vocabularium coptico-latinum et latino-copticum e Peyroni et Tattami lexicis (in Latin), Berlin: Fr. Nicolai, page 572