صوان

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ص و ن (ṣ-w-n).

Noun

صِوَان or صُوَان (ṣiwān or ṣuwān) m (plural أَصْوِنَة (ʾaṣwina))

  1. chest, cupboard, cabinet, drawer (any larger receptacle to store things)
  2. (computing) buffer
Declension

Etymology 2

From the giant quarries of أُمّ الْصَوَّان (ʾumm al-ṣawwān) near أَسْوَان (ʾaswān), from Coptic ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ (souan), from Egyptian swnw,




Noun

صَوَّان (ṣawwān) m (collective, singulative صَوَّانَة (ṣawwāna))

  1. granite
  2. flint
Declension

Further reading

  • Aston, Barbara G.; Harrell, James A.; Shaw, Ian (2000), “2. Stone”, in Paul T. Nicholson, Ian Shaw, editors, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 5 seqq.
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), صوان”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 855
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), صوان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1750–1751
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), صوان”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 736
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