صحن

Arabic

Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic, related to the root ص ف ح (ṣ-f-ḥ). Akin to Ge'ez ጻሕል (ṣaḥl, “bowl, jar, pan”), Hebrew צֵלָחָת (selāḥāṯ, “pot”), Hebrew צַלַּחַת (sallaḥáṯ, “dish, bowl”), Aramaic צְלֹוחִיתָא / ܨܠ݀ܿܘܚܺܝܬܐ (ṣlōẖīṯā, “jar”).

Noun

صَحْن • (ṣaḥn) m (plural صُحُون (ṣuḥūn) or أَصْحُن (ʔaṣḥun))

1. bowl, plate
2. dish, plate, meal
3. a kind of brass cymbal
4. interior, middle
   1. courtyard
   2. interior hollow part of a hoof
5. cavity of the ear
6. gift

Declension

Declension of noun صَحْن (ṣaḥn)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	صَحْن ṣaḥn	الصَّحْن aṣ-ṣaḥn	صَحْن ṣaḥn
Nominative	صَحْنٌ ṣaḥnun	الصَّحْنُ aṣ-ṣaḥnu	صَحْنُ ṣaḥnu
Accusative	صَحْنًا ṣaḥnan	الصَّحْنَ aṣ-ṣaḥna	صَحْنَ ṣaḥna
Genitive	صَحْنٍ ṣaḥnin	الصَّحْنِ aṣ-ṣaḥni	صَحْنِ ṣaḥni
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	صَحْنَيْن ṣaḥnayn	الصَّحْنَيْن aṣ-ṣaḥnayn	صَحْنَيْ ṣaḥnay
Nominative	صَحْنَانِ ṣaḥnāni	الصَّحْنَانِ aṣ-ṣaḥnāni	صَحْنَا ṣaḥnā
Accusative	صَحْنَيْنِ ṣaḥnayni	الصَّحْنَيْنِ aṣ-ṣaḥnayni	صَحْنَيْ ṣaḥnay
Genitive	صَحْنَيْنِ ṣaḥnayni	الصَّحْنَيْنِ aṣ-ṣaḥnayni	صَحْنَيْ ṣaḥnay
Plural	basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	صُحُون ṣuḥūn	الصُّحُون aṣ-ṣuḥūn	صُحُون ṣuḥūn
Nominative	صُحُونٌ ṣuḥūnun	الصُّحُونُ aṣ-ṣuḥūnu	صُحُونُ ṣuḥūnu
Accusative	صُحُونًا ṣuḥūnan	الصُّحُونَ aṣ-ṣuḥūna	صُحُونَ ṣuḥūna
Genitive	صُحُونٍ ṣuḥūnin	الصُّحُونِ aṣ-ṣuḥūni	صُحُونِ ṣuḥūni

Descendants

• → Swahili: sahani
• → Turkish: sahan

  → Greek: σαγάνι (sagáni)

Etymology 2

Verb

صِحْنَ • (ṣiḥna) (form I)

1. second-person feminine plural active imperative of صَاحَ (ṣāḥa)
2. third-person feminine plural past active of صَاحَ (ṣāḥa)

References

• “ṣlwḥy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Barth, Jakob (1893) Etymologische Studien zum semitischen insbesondere zum hebräischen Lexicon (in German), Berlin: H. Itzkowski, page 40
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “صحن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 820
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 63
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “صحن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 483
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “صحن”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1315
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “صحن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1656
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 552
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “صحن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 574
• H6745 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• H6747 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

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Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤaħan/, /sˤaħin/

Noun

صحن • (ṣaħan or ṣaħin) m (plural صُحون ‎(ṣuħūn))

1. plate