سنن

سَنَّ

To bite with the teeth; in a related construction, to break another's teeth by biting.

Form I verb; the object may be a person or the teeth themselves.

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سَنَّ

To pierce or thrust with a spear or spear-head.

Used with a person or object as the target, including the construction سَنَّهُ بِالرُّمْحِ.

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سَنَّ

To fit or mount a spear-head onto a spear.

A construction concerning the spear and its iron point.

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سَنَّ

To sharpen, whet, make pointed, or polish a tool or other object; also to rub one stone against another.

Form I verb; the object may be a knife, spear-head, or other thing.

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سَنَّنَ

To sharpen or stimulate the appetite.

A figurative extension of sharpening, including plants that stimulate camels' appetite for other pasture.

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سَنَّ

To rub and clean the teeth with a tooth-cleaning stick.

The teeth are polished by rubbing them with the designated stick.

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سَنَّ

To pasture and tend cattle well so that they become sleek or plump; also to send cattle into pasture.

Used especially of camels or other livestock; the two constructions distinguish good tending from sending out to graze.

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سَنَّ

To drive camels quickly or make a she-camel travel vehemently.

A Form I livestock and movement construction.

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سَنَّ

To direct or guide people by showing them the proper course of action.

Attested in the expression meaning that one is made to forget in order to guide people and explain what they should do when forgetfulness occurs.

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سَنَّ

To pour or discharge gently and without scattering; said of water, dust, tears, or sweat.

The material is directed smoothly onto a face, ground, corpse, or other recipient; the eye may pour tears and a horse may discharge sweat.

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سَنَّ

To put a coat of mail or other covering upon someone.

A specialized construction literally treating the armor as something poured onto the wearer.

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سَانَّ

To forcefully mount a female animal, making her lie down.

Form III; said of a stallion and she-camel, including covering her before she desires it.

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سَنَّ

To plaster pottery with clay or turn clay into pottery.

A Form I construction concerning clay and pottery.

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سَنَّ

To form, fashion, shape, or make something long.

Form I transitive usage; the source gives shaping as the general meaning and lengthening as a reported specialization.

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سَنَّ

To institute, establish, prescribe, or originate a custom, practice, rule, or way for others to follow; to make a matter known or prescribe its ordinances.

May concern a good or bad practice, or the laws, commands, and prohibitions made known by God.

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سَنَّ

To pursue or follow a way, course, or mode of conduct.

Used with سُنَّة or طَرِيقَة and related expressions for following an established course.

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سَنَّنَ

To make speech good, polished, or eloquent.

Form II figurative usage, compared with polishing an object.

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سَنَّنَ

To direct or point a spear toward someone or something.

Form II construction with the spear as the directed object.

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سَانَّ

To approach sexually or have sexual intercourse by force.

Form III construction describing the stallion's forceful covering of the female animal.

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أَسَنَّ

To become advanced in age or full-grown; of an animal, to reach the age marked by the emergence or shedding of a specified permanent tooth.

Form IV. The age marker varies by animal: the evidence distinguishes humans, cattle, sheep or goats, camels, and named stages of their teeth.

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تَسَنَّنَ

To take someone or something as an exemplar or model to be imitated.

Form V construction with بِهِ.

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تَسَنَّنَ

To run at random, heedlessly, or headlong.

Form V usage in the construction تَسَنَّنَ فِي عَدْوِهِ.

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تَسَانَّ

To bite one another with the front parts of the mouth.

Form VI reciprocal construction, said of stallion-camels.

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اِسْتَنَّ

To clean and rub the teeth with a siwak or similar stick.

Form VIII reflexive/use-of-instrument construction.

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اِسْتَنَّ

To seize or hold something with the teeth.

A Form VIII use distinct from cleaning the teeth.

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اِسْتَنَّ

To flow or gush forth, said of tears or blood from a wound.

Form VIII intransitive usage; the blood may issue in a gush from a spear wound or similar injury.

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اِسْتَنَّ

To quiver, move to and fro, or be in commotion, said of a mirage.

A Form VIII usage describing the wavering appearance of a mirage.

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اِسْتَنَّ

To frisk, prance, spring, or run briskly to and fro, said of a horse or young camel.

Includes running a heat without a rider and the proverbial use for someone entering a group or speaking beyond his station.

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اِسْتَنَّ

To take or follow the road or way; in an idiom, to be lying in the way and therefore readily attainable.

Form VIII road construction and the idiom خُذْ مَا اسْتَنَّ.

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اِسْتَسَنَّ

To become a travelled or beaten road.

Form X intransitive construction said of a road.

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سَنْسَنَ

To blow coldly or coolly, said of the wind.

A Lane R.Q. form.

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سِنّ

A portion of pasture or herbage available to grazing camels.

Used in expressions concerning a share or portion of pasture; this is distinct from the Quranic tooth sense.

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سِنّ

The possessors of teeth, collectively, including livestock, horses, slaves, and similar dependents.

A collective use of the singular noun in traditional expressions.

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سِنّ

Life-span, age, or the measure and extent of a life.

A figurative use derived from the changing of teeth; it may be applied to humans and other creatures.

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سِنّ

An equal or match in age.

Used of two persons or other beings of corresponding age.

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سِنّ

A tooth or projecting point of a reaping hook.

A tool-related extension of the tooth sense.

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سِنّ

A tooth of a comb or similar row of projections.

The expression كَأَسْنَانِ الْمُشْطِ compares things arranged in equality.

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سِنّ

Equality or uniformity, especially in the idiom comparing things to the teeth of a comb.

An idiomatic figurative use derived from the even arrangement of comb teeth.

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سِنّ

The nib or pared point of a writing reed.

The two lateral halves of the reed's pared point may each be called a tooth.

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سِنّ

A tooth or pin of a key.

A technical use for a projecting part of a wooden lock key.

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سِنّ

A clove or distinct bulb-segment of garlic.

A specialized nominal use for one separated portion of a garlic head.

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سِنّ

The wild bull.

A separate lexical use of the noun, not the tooth sense.

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سَنَّة

A female bear.

A distinct noun with the vocalized form سَنَّة.

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سَنَّة

A female lynx.

A distinct animal name with the vocalized form سَنَّة.

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سُنَّة

A transmitted practice, teaching, or precedent of a prophet or other religious authority; in Islamic legal usage, a practice attributed to the Prophet and not stated as an obligation in the Quran.

Technical religious usage includes recommended practice and distinguishes more strongly emphasized religious observances from customary practices whose omission is not blameworthy.

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سُنَّة

Nature, natural disposition, temperament, or inherent quality.

A separate nominal sense, with plural سُنَنٌ.

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سُنَّة

The face, facial form, cheek, forehead and sides, or the principal visible part of the face.

A lexical extension associated with smoothness, evenness, and the form of the face.

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سُنَّة

The black line or streak along the back of an ass.

A specialized animal-description term.

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سُنَّة

A recognized variety of dates from Medina.

A proper or regional food term.

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سِنَّة

A ploughshare, the iron implement used to break up the ground.

A technical tool noun; its plural is reported as سِنَنٌ.

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سِنَّة

A two-headed axe, hoe, or adz; in the plural, axes.

A separate tool-related use from the ploughshare sense.

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سَنَن

The main, middle, beaten, or otherwise travelled part of a road; a road's course or direction.

Used in expressions for leaving or keeping to the road and proceeding along one's course.

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سَنَن

A way of acting, mode, or manner of conduct.

Used for continuing in one consistent mode or manner.

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سَنَن

A person's aim or intention.

A nominal extension from direction and course.

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سَنَن

The tract, face, or direction of the ground toward which one proceeds.

A land and orientation usage reported as a related noun sense.

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سَنَن

A sustained course or run of horses or camels, especially a group advancing without being turned aside.

Used of animals persevering in running, advancing, or retreating; it can denote the group or its forceful course.

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سِنَان

The iron head or point of a spear.

The noun is associated with the polished, sharpened point; plural أَسِنَّةٌ.

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سِنَان

A whetstone or sharpening implement.

A synonym of مِسَنّ in the reported lexical usage.

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سِنَان

Flies.

A separate plural-like lexical use, synonymous with ذِبَّانٌ.

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سَنُون

A dentifrice or medicine used to rub, clean, strengthen, and freshen the teeth.

A material prepared for dental cleaning; plural سَنُونَاتٌ.

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سَنِين

The material or residue that flows from a whetstone during sharpening or falls from one stone when it is rubbed against another.

A technical material term associated with sharpening and grinding.

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سَنِينَة

An elevated lengthwise ridge of sand, or sand shaped like a rope or ridge.

A geographical noun; the plural is سَنَائِنُ.

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سَنِينَة

Wind, especially a gentle wind.

A separate natural-phenomenon sense from the sand noun.

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سِنْسِن

The edge or projecting end of a vertebra, rib, breastbone, or related bone; by extension, prominent bony parts such as parts of a camel's hump.

An anatomical noun with several reported applications to vertebrae, ribs, breast bones, horses, and camels.

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سِنْسِن

Thirst.

A separate lexical sense of the noun.

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سَنْسَان

A blast or mass of smoke.

Used of smoke from a fire.

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سَنْسَانَة

A cold or cool wind.

A fixed descriptive noun phrase with رِيحٌ.

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أَسَنّ

More advanced in age; oldest or further advanced in age.

The comparative or superlative adjective of age.

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مُسِنّ

Advanced in age or full-grown, especially of an animal beyond the youthful stage.

Applied to mature livestock and other animals; the exact age can be marked by the emergence of permanent teeth.

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مَسْنُون

Bitten with the teeth.

A classical passive-participle use distinct from the Quranic mud expression.

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مَسْنُون

Said of land whose herbage has been eaten or grazed down.

A classical passive-participle use of land and pasture.

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مَسْنُون

Sharpened, whetted, pointed, or polished.

Applied to a knife or other object that has been worked on a whetstone.

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مَسْنُون

Made smooth, formed, fashioned, shaped, or elongated.

A general passive-participle use for an object that has been shaped or smoothed; it is distinct from the Quran-specific mud interpretations.

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مَسْنُون

Smooth, even, long, or handsome in facial form.

Applied to a face or a person described by the form and smoothness of the face.

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مُسْتَنّ

The place where a mirage runs or where the vehement heat of a hot wind moves to and fro.

Used in the expression مُسْتَنُّ الْحَرُورِ.

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مُسْتَنّ

A lion.

An epithet derived from the Form VIII lexical family.

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مِسَنْسَن

A travelled or beaten road.

A nominal form describing a road that has been traversed.

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