شفنين
Arabic
Etymology
Borrowed from Aramaic שַׁפְנִינָא (šap̄nīnā), ܫܘܼܦܢܼܝܢܵܐ (šup̄nīnā, “turtle-dove”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃif.niːn/
Noun
شِفْنِين • (šifnīn) m
- laughing dove
- a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, editor, عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات [ʿajāʾib al-maḵlūqāt wa-ḡarāʾib al-mawjūdāt], Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, published 1849, page 416:
- شفنين طائر معروف قال الجاحظ من عجائبه إنه ليزاوج إلّا أنثاه فإن هلكت أنثاه لا يزاوج أبدًا وكذلك الأنثى إن هلك ذكرها. شحمه يداف بالسيرج ويقطر في الأذن يزيل طرشها وكذلك يزيل الرمد وجراحات العين والعشى اكتحالًا. ذرقه يسحق ويداف بدهن الورد وتحتمله المرأة بصوفة ينفع أوجاء الرحم.
- The laughing dove is a well-known bird about which al-Jāḥiẓ said of its peculiarities that it never takes a fere except its female and when its female perishes it will never form a bond and likewise the female when its male dies. Its fat is mingled with sesame-oil and dribbled into the ear where it does away with its deafness and in the same fashion when kohled it staves off the sores and the wounds of the eye and nightblindness. One crushes its droppings and mixes them with rose oil and a woman wears it with a wool rag as it helps against woes of the womb.
- Synonym: قُمْرِيّ (qumriyy)
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- ellipsis of شِفْنِين بَحْرِيّ (šifnīn baḥriyy, “ray”).
Declension
Declension of noun شِفْنِين (šifnīn)
| Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | شِفْنِين šifnīn | الشِّفْنِين aš-šifnīn | شِفْنِين šifnīn |
| Nominative | شِفْنِينٌ šifnīnun | الشِّفْنِينُ aš-šifnīnu | شِفْنِينُ šifnīnu |
| Accusative | شِفْنِينًا šifnīnan | الشِّفْنِينَ aš-šifnīna | شِفْنِينَ šifnīna |
| Genitive | شِفْنِينٍ šifnīnin | الشِّفْنِينِ aš-šifnīni | شِفْنِينِ šifnīni |
References
- “špnyn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 716
- Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, LCCN 96052434, page 285b
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “شفنين”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 771a
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 148
- Freytag, Georg (1833), “شفنين”, 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 436
- Jacob, Georg (1892) Studien in arabischen Geographen (in German), volume 3, Berlin: Meyer & Müller, page 105