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شنار

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See also: سنار, سبار, and شناز

Arabic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian شنار (šanār).

Noun

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شِنَار or شَنَار (šinār or šanārm (obsolete)

  1. affront, improper speech, defamation
  2. ignominy, deformity, vice
  3. a horse looking sorry for itself

Declension

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Derived terms

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Noun

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شَنَار or شَنَّار (šanār or šannārm (obsolete)

  1. horehound

Declension

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References

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  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 734
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “شنار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 790b
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 112
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “شنار”, 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[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1276a
  • Steinschneider, Moritz (1898) “Heilmittelnamen der Araber”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes[3], volume 12, page 225 Nr. 1452

Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? šanār, šinār

Etymology

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See the swimming word, in this case from a form *snā-θra with the tool suffix *-θra from Proto-Indo-European *-trom.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? šanār, šinār
Dari reading? šanār, šinār
Iranian reading? šanâr, šenâr
Tajik reading? šanor, šinor

Noun

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شنار (šanār, šinār) (obsolete)

  1. Obsolete form of شنا (šinā, swimming).
  2. affront, improper speech, defamation
  3. sprig, offshoot
  4. horehound

Descendants

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  • Arabic: شَنَار (šanār), شِنَار (šinār)

References

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  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “شنار”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum[4] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 468