سانية

Arabic

Root
س ن و (s-n-w)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saː.ni.ja/
  • (Moroccan) IPA^(key): /saːn.ja/

Noun

سَانِيَة • (sāniya) f (plural سَوَانٍ (sawānin), plural construct state سَوَانِي (sawānī))

1. water-transporting camel
2. noria, waterwheel

   Synonym: دَالِيَة (dāliya)

Declension

Declension of noun سَانِيَة (sāniya)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَانِيَة sāniya	السَّانِيَة as-sāniya	سَانِيَة sāniyat
Nominative	سَانِيَةٌ sāniyatun	السَّانِيَةُ as-sāniyatu	سَانِيَةُ sāniyatu
Accusative	سَانِيَةً sāniyatan	السَّانِيَةَ as-sāniyata	سَانِيَةَ sāniyata
Genitive	سَانِيَةٍ sāniyatin	السَّانِيَةِ as-sāniyati	سَانِيَةِ sāniyati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَانِيَتَيْن sāniyatayn	السَّانِيَتَيْن as-sāniyatayn	سَانِيَتَيْ sāniyatay
Nominative	سَانِيَتَانِ sāniyatāni	السَّانِيَتَانِ as-sāniyatāni	سَانِيَتَا sāniyatā
Accusative	سَانِيَتَيْنِ sāniyatayni	السَّانِيَتَيْنِ as-sāniyatayni	سَانِيَتَيْ sāniyatay
Genitive	سَانِيَتَيْنِ sāniyatayni	السَّانِيَتَيْنِ as-sāniyatayni	سَانِيَتَيْ sāniyatay
Plural	broken plural diptote in ـٍ (-in)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَوَانِي sawānī	السَّوَانِي as-sawānī	سَوَانِي sawānī
Nominative	سَوَانٍ sawānin	السَّوَانِي as-sawānī	سَوَانِي sawānī
Accusative	سَوَانِيَ sawāniya	السَّوَانِيَ as-sawāniya	سَوَانِيَ sawāniya
Genitive	سَوَانٍ sawānin	السَّوَانِي as-sawānī	سَوَانِي sawānī

Descendants

• → Aragonese: cenia
• → Catalan: sínia, sénia
• → Galician: acea
• → Portuguese: azenha
• → Sicilian: senia
• → Old Spanish: azenia (pre-literary, 10th century)
  • Spanish: aceña

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “aceña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 33
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “سانية”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 367
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سانية”, 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 C^ie, page 1155
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “سانية”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1450
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سانية”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 606