Arabic

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Etymology 1.1

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    Root
    ص ن ع (ṣ n ʕ)
    15 terms

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /sˤa.na.ʕa/
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    صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa) I (non-past يَصْنَعُ (yaṣnaʕu), verbal noun صَنْع (ṣanʕ) or صُنْع (ṣunʕ) or صَنِيع (ṣanīʕ) or صِنَاعَة (ṣināʕa))

    1. to do, to make
    2. to arrange
    3. to produce, to build, to manufacture
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    Etymology 1.2

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    صَنَّعَ (ṣannaʕa) II (non-past يُصَنِّعُ (yuṣanniʕu), verbal noun تَصْنِيع (taṣnīʕ))

    1. to manufacture
    2. to process, to treat industrially
    3. (transitive) to industrialize
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    Etymology 1.3

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /sˤunʕ/, /sˤanʕ/

    Noun

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    صُنْع or صَنْع (ṣunʕ or ṣanʕm

    1. verbal noun of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa) (form I)
    2. production, manufacture, making
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    Persian

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Arabic صُنْع (ṣunʕ).

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    Readings
    Classical reading? sun'
    Dari reading? sun'
    Iranian reading? son'
    Tajik reading? sunʾ

    Noun

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    صنع (son')

    1. (literary) production, productive power, capacity or process of creation
      تفاوت صنع خداوند با صنع انسان
      tafâvot-e son'-e xodâvand bâ son'-e ensân
      the difference between human creation and God's creation

    Further reading

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