Appendix:Arabic roots/ص ن ع

Arabic

Root

ص ن ع • (ṣ n ʕ)

1. related to building and designing

Derived terms

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa, “to produce, manufacture, stage, design”)
  • Verbal noun: صَنْع (ṣanʕ), صُنْع ( ṣunʕ), صَنِيع ( ṣanīʕ)
  • Active participle: صَانِع (ṣāniʕ, “maker, producer, manufacturer, creator, artisan, worker, servant”)
  • Passive participle: مَصْنُوع (maṣnūʕ, “product, produce”)
• Form II: صَنَّعَ (ṣannaʕa, “to manufacture, process, industrialize”)
  • Verbal noun: تَصْنِيع (taṣnīʕ, “fabrication, working, treating, industrialization”)
  • Active participle: مُصَنِّع (muṣanniʕ)
  • Passive participle: مُصَنَّع (muṣannaʕ)
• Form III: صَانَعَ (ṣānaʕa, “to cooperate, flatter, bribe”)
  • Verbal noun: مُصَانَعَة (muṣānaʕa)
  • Active participle: مُصَانِع (muṣāniʕ)
  • Passive participle: مُصَانَع (muṣānaʕ)
• Form V: تَصَنَّعَ (taṣannaʕa, “to pretend, speak or write in a stilted way, become industrialized”)
  • Verbal noun: تَصَنُّع (taṣannuʕ, “hypocrisy, dissimulation, dissemblement, affectedness, affectation, mannerism”)
  • Active participle: مُتَصَنِّع (mutaṣanniʕ, “affected, stilted, mannered, industrialized”)
  • Passive participle: مُتَصَنَّع (mutaṣannaʕ)
• Form VIII: اِصْطَنَعَ (iṣṭanaʕa, “to have something produced, to commission, manufacture, pretend, invent, use”)
  • Verbal noun: اِصْطِنَاع (iṣṭināʕ, “production, making”)
  • Active participle: مُصْطَنِع (muṣṭaniʕ)
  • Passive participle: مُصْطَنَع (muṣṭanaʕ, “artificial, synthetic, affected, simulated, imitated, sham, bogus, phony”)
• Form X: اِسْتَصْنَعَ (istaṣnaʕa, “to have someone make something”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِصْنَاع (istiṣnāʕ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَصْنِع (mustaṣniʕ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَصْنَع (mustaṣnaʕ)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• صَنْعِيّ (ṣanʕiyy, “artificial, synthetic”)
• صَنْعَة (ṣanʕa, “work, workmanship, manufacture, art, technical or artistic skill, business, trade, occupation, profession”)
• صَنَاع (ṣanāʕ)
• صِنَاعَة (ṣināʕa, “art, skill, occupation, profession, manufacture, industry”); plural صَنَائِع (ṣanāʔiʕ)
  • صَنَائِعِيّ (ṣanāʔiʕiyy, “artificial, synthetic, imitation, workmanlike, handicraft (attributive), industrial; artisan, craftsman”)
  • صِنَاعِيّ (ṣināʕiyy, “artificial, synthetic, imitation, workmanlike, handicraft (attributive), industrial”)
• صَنِيعَة (ṣanīʕa, “action, deed, benefit, favor, establishment”); plural صَنَائِع (ṣanāʔiʕ)
• مَصْنَع (maṣnaʕ, “factory, mill, establishment”); plural مَصَانِع (maṣāniʕ)
  • مَصْنَعِيَّة (maṣnaʕiyya, “wages”)
• اِصْطِنَاعِيّ (iṣṭināʕiyy, “artificial, synthetic, imitation”)

See also

• صَنْعَاء (ṣanʕāʔ, “Sanaa”)
• صَنْعَائِيّ (ṣanʕāʔiyy)
• صَنْعَانِيّ (ṣanʕāniyy)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “صنع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN