ܣܢܝܐ

Compare Biblical Hebrew סְנֶה (sənê). If related to Arabic سَنَا (sanā, “senna”), perhaps from Proto-Semitic *šinn- (“tooth”).

• (Classical Edessan) IPA^(key): [ˈsan.jɑ]
• (Eastern Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈsan.jɑ]
• (Western Syriac) IPA^(key): [ˈsɑn.jo]

ܣܢܝܐ • (sanyā) m (plural ܣܢܝܐ (sənayyā))

1. bush, shrub, bramble, thornbush
   • Peshitta, Luke 6:44:

     ܟܠ ܐܝܠܢܐ ܓܝܪ ܡܢ ܦܐܪ̈ܘܗܝ ܗܘ ܡܬܝܕܥ. ܠܐ ܓܝܪ ܠܩܛܝܢ ܡܢ ܟܘܒ̈ܐ ܬܐܢ̈ܐ. ܐܦ ܠܐ ܡܢ ܣܢܝܐ ܩܛܦܝܢ ܥܢܒ̈ܐ.

     koll ʾīlānā ḡêr men pēʾraw[hy] [h]ū meṯīḏaʿ. lā ḡêr lāqṭīn men kubbē ṯêʾnē, ʾāp̄ lā men sanyā qāṭpīn ʿenəḇē.

     For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

   Synonym: ܦܛܠ (pəṭal)

• ܣܢܝܐ ܕܟܠܒܐ (sanyā ḏə-ḵalbā)

• “sny”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 1 December 2011
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 232a
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “ܣܢܝܐ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1448.
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[1] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, →DOI, page 315
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[2] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 187
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 382a
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, →ISBN, page 1024a