سینی

See also: شینی

Chagatai

Pronoun

سینی • (syny /seni/)

1. accusative of سین (syn /⁠sen⁠/)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سینی (sini, “tray”), itself from Arabic صِينِيّ (ṣīniyy, “Chinese”).

Adjective

سینی • (sini)

1. Chinese, of, from, or related to China

   Synonym: چینی (çini)

Noun

سینی • (sini)

1. large, round tray made of copper or brass, used to carry things or as a table

   Synonym: تپسی (tepsi)

2. speculum metal, an alloy of around two-thirds copper and one-third tin
3. Dutch tile, a glazed ornamental tile used in the jambs of chimneys etc.

Derived terms

• سینیجی (sinici, “maker or seller of trays”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sini
• → Bulgarian: сини́я (siníja)
• → Macedonian: синија (sinija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: sìnija

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sini2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4253
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سینی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 711
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Orbis”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1218
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سینی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2738
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sini”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سینی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1104

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صِينِيّ (ṣīniyy, “Chinese”). Doublet of چینی (čini).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /siː.ˈniː/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [siː.níː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [siː.níː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [siː.níː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [si.ní]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [siː.níː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [si.ní]

Readings
Classical reading?	sīnī
Dari reading?	sīnī
Iranian reading?	sini
Tajik reading?	sini

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	پتنوس
Iranian Persian	سینی
Tajik	лаълӣ, лаган

سینی • (sini)

1. large, round metal tray (sometimes used as a low-lying table)

Descendants

• → Armenian: սինի (sini)
• → Azerbaijani: sini
• → Ottoman Turkish: سینی (sini)
  • Turkish: sini
  • → Bulgarian: сини́я (siníja)
  • → Macedonian: синија (sinija)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: sìnija
• → Urdu: سِینِی (sīnī)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “سینی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Alternative forms

• صینی (sīnī)

Noun

سینی • (senī) f

1. tray
2. a large metal tray
3. large metal tray used as a low-lying round table