سنوت
Arabic
Etymology
Compare سَنَا (sanā, “senna”), denoting plants and their seeds of similar avail; the ending -ūt is an Aramaic suffix; whereas according to G. S. Colin it seems to be a Yemenite, i. e. Modern South Arabian word; however it is but attested in Old Armenian սամիթ (samitʿ, “dill”). The Sunna use occurs in the same format (as a cure of every disease short of fatality) with شُونِيز (šūnīz); its meaning, kalonji, withal, is not ascribed to سَنُّوت (sannūt), and the tradition affirms that the original wording was الحَبّةُ السَوْدَاءُ (al-ḥabbatu s-sawdāʾu) and not الشُونِيزُ (aš-šūnīzu).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /san.nuːt/
Noun
سَنُّوت • (sannūt) m (rare)
- inspissated fruits, syrup
- Synonym: رُبّ (rubb)
- dill (Anethum graveolens)
- 7th century CE, Sunan Ibn Māgah, 31:
- سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللّٰهِ – صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ – يَقُولُ «عَلَيْكُمْ بِالسَّنَى وَالسَّنُّوتِ فَإِنَّ فِيهِمَا شِفَاءً مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلَّا السَّامَ.» قِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللّٰهِ وَمَا السَّامُ قَالَ «الْمَوْتُ». قَالَ عَمْرٌو قَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عَبْلَةَ السَّنُّوتُ الشِّبِتُّ وَقَالَ آخَرُونَ بَلْ هُوَ الْعَسَلُ الَّذِي يَكُونُ فِي زِقَاقِ السَّمْنِ وَهُوَ قَوْلُ الشَّاعِرِ «هُمُ السَّمْنُ بِالسَّنُّوتِ لَا أَلْسَ فِيهِمُ وَهُمْ يَمْنَعُونَ جَارَهُمْ أَنْ يُقَرَّدَا».
- samiʿtu rasūla llāhi – ṣallā llāhu ʿalay-hi wasallama – yaqūlu “ʿalay-kum bi-s-sanā wa-s-sannūti fa-ʾinna fī-himā šifāʾan min kulli dāʾin ʾillā s-sāma.” qīla yā rasūla llāhi wa-mā s-sāmu qāla “l-mawtu”. qāla ʿamrun qāla bnu ʾabī ʿablata s-sannūtu š-šibittu wa-qāla ʾāḵarūna bal huwa l-ʿasalu allaḏī yakūnu fī ziqāqi s-samni wa-huwa qawlu š-šāʿiri “humu s-samnu bi-s-sannūti lā ʾalsa fī-himu wa-hum yamnaʿūna jāra-hum ʾan yuqarradā”.
- I heard the Messenger of God (PBUH) say “You should intake senna and and sannūt, for it is a cure of every disease short of fatality. One said: “O Messenger of God, what is fatality?” He said ”death.” ʿAmr said that Ibn ʾAbū ʿAbla said that Sannūt is dill. But others say it is a honey kept in skins of fat and a poet says “they are fat with honey but no sour milk in them and they prevent that their neighbour gets picked on.”
- Synonym: شِبِثّ (šibiṯṯ)
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- fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
- Synonym: شَمَر (šamar)
- cumin (Cuminum cyminum)
- Synonym: كَمُّون (kammūn)
Declension
Declension of noun سَنُّوت (sannūt)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | سَنُّوت sannūt | السَّنُّوت as-sannūt | سَنُّوت sannūt |
| Nominative | سَنُّوتٌ sannūtun | السَّنُّوتُ as-sannūtu | سَنُّوتُ sannūtu |
| Accusative | سَنُّوتًا sannūtan | السَّنُّوتَ as-sannūta | سَنُّوتَ sannūta |
| Genitive | سَنُّوتٍ sannūtin | السَّنُّوتِ as-sannūti | سَنُّوتِ sannūti |
References
- Georges S. Colin (1978), “Kammūn”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam. Second Edition, volume 4, Leiden: Brill, page 522b
- Freytag, Georg (1833), “سنوت”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 362b
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “سنوت”, 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 (in French), volume I, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1149
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “سنوت”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1440
- Wahrmund, Adolf (1887), “سنوت”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 935