ص ن ع

ص ن ع • (ṣ-n-ʿ)

1. related to building and designing

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: صَنَعَ‎ (ṣanaʿa, “to produce, manufacture, stage, design”)
  • Verbal noun: صَنْع‎ (ṣanʿ), صُنْع‎ ( ṣunʿ), صَنِيع‎ ( ṣanīʿ)
  • Active participle: صَانِع‎ (ṣāniʿ, “maker, producer, manufacturer, creator, artisan, worker, servant”)
  • Passive participle: مَصْنُوع‎ (maṣnūʿ, “product, produce”)
• Form II: صَنَّعَ‎ (ṣannaʿa, “to manufacture, process, industrialize”)
  • Verbal noun: تَصْنِيع‎ (taṣnīʿ, “fabrication, working, treating, industrialization”)
  • Active participle: مُصَنِّع‎ (muṣanniʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُصَنَّع‎ (muṣannaʿ)
• Form III: صَانَعَ‎ (ṣānaʿa, “to cooperate, flatter, bribe”)
  • Verbal noun: مُصَانَعَة‎ (muṣānaʿa), صِنَاع‎ (ṣināʿ)
  • Active participle: مُصَانِع‎ (muṣāniʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُصَانَع‎ (muṣānaʿ)
• Form V: تَصَنَّعَ‎ (taṣannaʿa, “to pretend, speak or write in a stilted way, become industrialized”)
  • Verbal noun: تَصَنُّع‎ (taṣannuʿ, “hypocrisy, dissimulation, dissemblement, affectedness, affectation, mannerism”)
  • Active participle: مُتَصَنِّع‎ (mutaṣanniʿ, “affected, stilted, mannered, industrialized”)
  • Passive participle: مُتَصَنَّع‎ (mutaṣannaʿ)
• Form VIII: اِصْطَنَعَ‎ (iṣṭanaʿa, “to have something produced, to commission, manufacture, pretend, invent, use”)
  • Verbal noun: اِصْطِنَاع‎ (iṣṭināʿ, “production, making”)
  • Active participle: مُصْطَنِع‎ (muṣṭaniʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُصْطَنَع‎ (muṣṭanaʿ, “artificial, synthetic, affected, simulated, imitated, sham, bogus, phony”)
• Form X: اِسْتَصْنَعَ‎ (istaṣnaʿa, “to have someone make something”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِصْنَاع‎ (istiṣnāʿ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَصْنِع‎ (mustaṣniʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَصْنَع‎ (mustaṣnaʿ)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• صَنْعِيّ‎ (ṣanʿiyy, “artificial, synthetic”)
• صَنْعَة‎ (ṣanʿa, “work, workmanship, manufacture, art, technical or artistic skill, business, trade, occupation, profession”)
• صَنَاع‎ (ṣanāʿ)
• صِنَاعَة‎ (ṣināʿa, “art, skill, occupation, profession, manufacture, industry”); plural صَنَائِع‎ (ṣanāʾiʿ)
  • صَنَائِعِيّ‎ (ṣanāʾiʿiyy, “artificial, synthetic, imitation, workmanlike, handicraft (attributive), industrial; artisan, craftsman”)
  • صِنَاعِيّ‎ (ṣināʿiyy, “artificial, synthetic, imitation, workmanlike, handicraft (attributive), industrial”)
• صَنِيعَة‎ (ṣanīʿa, “action, deed, benefit, favor, establishment”); plural صَنَائِع‎ (ṣanāʾiʿ)
• مَصْنَع‎ (maṣnaʿ, “factory, mill, establishment”); plural مَصَانِع‎ (maṣāniʿ)
  • مَصْنَعِيَّة‎ (maṣnaʿiyya, “wages”)
• اِصْطِنَاعِيّ‎ (iṣṭināʿiyy, “artificial, synthetic, imitation”)

• صَنْعَاء‎ (ṣanʿāʾ, “Sana'a”)
• صَنْعَائِيّ‎ (ṣanʿāʾiyy)
• صَنْعَانِيّ‎ (ṣanʿāniyy)

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “صنع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN