Form 1سَنڤهَ1 sense
Core sense — it underwent the lapse of years; it became altered for the worsegenerated
See 5, in two places.
Core sense — it underwent the lapse of years; it became altered for the worsegenerated
See 5, in two places.
Core sense — he engaged him for work by the year; the palm-tree bore in alternate yearsgenerated
Maṣdar مُسَانَهَةٌ, سِنَاهٌ, and سَاناهُ; also, or عَامَلَهُ مُسُانَهَةً, and مُسَانَاةً.
He made an engagement, or a contract, with him for work or the like, by the year.
مُسَانَهَةٌ and مُسَانَاةٌ from السَّنَةُ are like مُعَاوَمَةٌ from العَامُ, مُشَاهَرَةٌ from الشَّهْرُ, and مُرَابَعَةٌ from الرَّبِيعُ, and so on; see the article ربع.
Also عَاوَمَت.
Core sense — they experienced drought, or barrennessgenerated
In this form of the verb the final radical letter is changed into ت.
See also the article سنت.
Core sense — I stayed with him a year; it became altered by the lapse of yearsgenerated
Both forms mean the same.
[See also 5 in the articles سنو and سنى.]
Also سَنِهَت; and one says the like of other things.
Said of food and of beverage.
Also سَنِهَ; or it became altered [for the worse] by the lapse of years.
التَّسَنُّهُ, in relation to bread and beverage and the like, means becoming mouldy, musty, or spoiled.
In some copies of the K, السَّنِهُ, like كَتِف, is put in the place of التَّسَنُّهُ, and المُتَكَرِّجُ in the place of the explanation التَّكَرُّجُ.
In the Qur'ān 2:261.
Az says that this is the right way of reading, pronouncing the ه in يتسنّه both when pausing after it and when going on without a pause; Ks used to drop the ه in the latter case and pronounce it in the former.
Aboo-'Amr Esh-Sheybánee says that the original form [of يَتَسَنَّ] is يَتَسَنَّنْ, the same change being made in it as is made in تَظَنَّيْتُ [for تَظَنَّنْتُ] and in قَصَّيَتُ أَظْفَارِى [for قَصَّصْتُ اظفارى].
[See also 5 in the article سنو, and سنى, last sentence.]
Or (take) the similitude of one who passed by a hamlet, all in ruins to its roofs. He said: "Oh! how shall Allah bring it (ever) to life, after (this) its death?" but Allah caused him to die for a hundred years, then raised him up (again). He said: "How long didst thou tarry (thus)?" He said: (Perhaps) a day or part of a day." He said: "Nay, thou hast tarried thus a hundred years; but look at thy food and thy drink; they show no signs of age; and look at thy donkey: And that We may make of thee a sign unto the people, Look further at the bones, how We bring them together and clothe them with flesh." When this was shown clearly to him, he said: "I know that Allah hath power over all things."
Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.
Core sense — a year; drought, or barrenness; land affected with droughtgenerated
A word whose final radical letter is dropped, and which has two dialectal variants: according to some the original is سَنْهَةٌ, like جَبْهَةٌ or سَجْدَةٌ; according to others it is سَنْوةٌ, like شَهْوَةٌ. Modifications of the word are built on each of these originals, so it is mentioned in the K [and S and other lexicons] in this article and again in the article سنو.
A year; synonymous with حَوْلٌ, or عَامٌ.
Suh says, in the R, that the سَنَة is longer than the عَام, the latter word being applied to the [twelve] Arabian months collectively, and so differing from the former.
With the Arabs it consists of four seasons, mentioned before [in the article زمن, under زَمَنٌ].
But sometimes it is applied figuratively to a single فَصْل [or quarter].
Here the فَصْل [or quarter] is meant, all of it.
See more in the articles سنو and سنى.
The diminutive is سُنَيْهَةُ for those who make the original of سَنَةٌ to be سَنْهَةٌ, and سُنَيَّةٌ for those who make the original of سَنَةٌ to be سَنْوَةٌ; some say سُنَيْنَةٌ, but this is rare.
The plural is سَنَهَاتٌ for those who make the original of سَنَةٌ to be سَنْهةٌ, and سَنَوَاتٌ for those who make the original of سَنَةٌ to be سَنْوَةٌ; and also سِنُونَ, like the masculine perfect plural, with kesr to the س and سِنِينَ [in the accusative and genitive cases].
The ن is dropped when the word is prefixed to another noun, governing the latter in the genitive case; and some say سُنُونَ, with damm to the س.
In one dialect the ى is kept in all the cases, and the ن is made a letter of declinability, with tanwīn when the word is indeterminate, [so that one says سِنِينٌ], and it is not dropped when the word is prefixed to another noun governing the latter in the genitive case, because it is [regarded as] one of the radical letters of the word.
Of this dialect is the saying of the Prophet just quoted; [but in my copy of the Mgh I find كَسِنِى يُوسُفَ].
As to سِنِينٌ, like مِئِينٌ, with refa [and tanwīn], there are two opinions. One is that it is of the measure فِعْلِينٌ, like غِسْلِينٌ, with one letter rejected, though this is an irregular plural, for there sometimes occurs among plurals one that has no parallel, as عِدًى; this is the opinion of Akh.
The other opinion is that it is of the measure فَعِيلٌ, changed to فِعِيلٌ because of the kesreh of the second letter, the plural being in some instances of the measure فَعِيلٌ, like كَلِيبٌ and عَبِيدٌ; but the one who holds this opinion makes its final ن a substitute for و, and that of مِائَةٌ a substitute for ى.
You may also suppress the tanwīn in سِنِينٌ [in which case it seems that one says سِنِينَ in the nominative case (assimilating it to سِنُونَ) as well as in the accusative and the genitive; as one does with بُرِين and بِرِين, plurals of بُرَةٌ, according to the K, though, as I have shown in the article برو, there is some doubt on this point]; but suppressing the tanwīn in سِنِينٌ is rarer than pronouncing it.
Er-Rāghib: another plural is سُنِىٌّ [originally سُنُوٌّ], of the measure فُعُولٌ. See the article سنو.
Akh says that this phrase, in the Qur'ān 18:24, stands for ثَلٰثَمِائَةٍ مِنَ السِّنِينَ [Three hundred of years]; and he says that if the سِنُون is an explicative of the مِائَة it is in the genitive case [to agree with مِائَةٍ], and if an explicative of the ثَلٰث it is in the accusative case [to agree with ثَلٰثَ].
[See also Bd on this phrase; and see De Sacy's Arabic Grammar, 2nd ed., vol. 1, p. 423.]
Said of an animal or a plant or the like; that is, in his, or its, first year.
Az: a phrase like لَقِيتُهُ ذَاتَ العُوَيْمِ. See the article عوم.
سُنَيَّةٌ is a diminutive of enhancement, of سَنَةٌ.
These were years that pressed hard upon the people of El-Medeeneh.
This word alone also carries this meaning; see the article سنو.
An instance of a noun used especially in one of its senses, like دَابَّةٌ applied to a horse and مَالٌ applied to camels.
The plural, in this sense as in the former one, is سَنَهَاتٌ [and سَنَوَاتٌ], سِنُونَ, and سِنِينٌ.
Said of a land.
Said in like manner of people.
A seeker of herbage and of a place to alight was sent to a tract and found it dried up for want of rain; when he came back and was asked about it, he said this.
Said in a tradition.
Also used as an adjective, applied to land, meaning affected with drought, or barrenness; and so سَنْهَآءُ and سَنْوَآءُ.
Et-Tirimmāh says:
[In a gusty tract, the wind moaning in it like the moaning of the milch ewes or goats in the country affected with drought, or the countries, بَلَد being treated as a collective generic noun and therefore qualified by a plural, like قَوْمٌ in the phrase قَوْمٌ كَافِرُونَ].
Core sense — a yeargenerated
Also pronounced with teshdeed to the ن.
See سَنًا in the article سنو, and سنى, last sentence.
Core sense — food that has undergone the lapse of yearsgenerated
[Food, or wheat,] that has undergone the lapse of years; and so سَنٍ.
See also مُتَسَنِّهٌ.
Core sense — a palm-tree that bears one year and not anothergenerated
A palm-tree that bears one year and not another; or a palm-tree affected by a year of drought.
See also سَنَةٌ, last sentence but one.
Core sense — a little year; a severe yeargenerated
This word and سُنَيَّةٌ are diminutives of سَنَةٌ, and the plural is سُنَيَّات. See سَنَةٌ, in five places.
See also سُنَيَّةٌ in the article سنو, and سنى.
Core sense — mouldy, musty, or spoiledgenerated
Applied to bread and to beverage and the like.
Applied to bread.
See 5, third sentence.