صحن

From Proto-Semitic, related to the root ص ف ح (ṣ-f-ḥ). Akin to Ge'ez ጻሕል (ṣaḥl, “bowl, jar, pan”), Hebrew צֵלָחָת (ṣelāḥāṯ, “pot”), Hebrew צַלַּחַת (ṣallaḥáṯ, “dish, bowl”), Aramaic צְלֹוחִיתָא / ܨܠ݀ܿܘܚܺܝܬܐ (ṣlōẖīṯā, “jar”).

صَحْن • (ṣaḥn) m (plural صُحُون (ṣuḥūn) or أَصْحُن (ʔaṣḥun) or صِحَان (ṣiḥān) or أَصْحَان (ʔaṣḥān))

1. bowl, plate
2. dish, plate, meal
3. a kind of brass cymbal
4. interior, middle
   1. courtyard
   2. interior hollow part of a hoof
5. cavity of the ear
6. gift

• Gulf Arabic: صحن (ṣaḥan)
• Hijazi Arabic: صحن (ṣaḥan, ṣaḥin)
• South Levantine Arabic: صحن (ṣaḥn)
• → Abkhaz: а–саан (a–saan)
• → Azerbaijani: səhn
• → Chagatai: صَحْن
  • Uzbek: sahn
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: सहन (sahan)
  • Urdu: صَحْن (sahn)
• → Mabaan: cakan
• → Ottoman Turkish: صحن (sahn), صحان (sahan)
  • Turkish: sahan, sağan, sağın
  • → Albanian: sahan
  • → Armenian: սահան (sahan)
  • → Bulgarian: саха́н (sahán)
  • → Greek: σαγάνι (sagáni)
  • → Laz: საღანი (sağani), სახანი (saxani)
  • → Romanian: sahan
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: са̀хан
    • Latin script: sàhan
• → Pashto: صحن
• → Persian: صحن (sahn)
• → Punjabi: صَحْن (ṣaḥn)
• → Sindhi: صحن
• → Swahili: sahani
  • → Gujarati: સાની (sānī)
  • → Kikuyu: thani

From the root ص ح ن (ṣ-ḥ-n). Denominal from صَحْن (ṣaḥn, “bowl”) in the second sense.

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.ħa.na/

صَحَنَ • (ṣaḥana) I, non-past يَصْحَنُ‎ (yaṣḥanu) (Classical Arabic)

1. strike, beat
2. give, present something in a bowl (to acc. someone)

صِحْنَ • (ṣiḥna) (form I)

1. second-person feminine plural active imperative of صَاحَ (ṣāḥa)
2. third-person feminine plural past active of صَاحَ (ṣāḥa)

• “ṣlwḥy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Barth, Jakob (1893) Etymologische Studien zum semitischen insbesondere zum hebräischen Lexicon (in German), Berlin: H. Itzkowski, page 40
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “صحن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 820
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 63
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “صحن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 483
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “صحن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1315
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “صحن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1656
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 552
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “صحن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 574
• H6745 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• H6747 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

صحن

1. Arabic spelling of səhn

From Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.ħan/, /sˤa.ħin/

صحَن or صحِن • (ṣaḥan or ṣaḥin) m (plural صحون (ṣuḥūn))

1. plate

• صحان (sahan)

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn, “bowl, plate, dish”).

صحن • (sahn) (plural صحون (suhun))

1. dish, plate, especially a round and shallow one, with a knobbed cover

   Synonym: طبق (tabak)

2. (architecture) courtyard, an open area, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings
3. (architecture) terrace, esplanade, any clear, level space used for public walks or drives

• Turkish: sahan, sağan, sağın
• → Albanian: sahan
• → Armenian: սահան (sahan)
• → Bulgarian: саха́н (sahán)
• → Greek: σαγάνι (sagáni)
• → Laz: საღანი (sağani), სახანი (saxani)
• → Romanian: sahan
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: са̀хан
  • Latin script: sàhan

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sahan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4018
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صحن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 756
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Catinum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 162
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صحن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2939
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sahan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صحن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1169

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

صحن • (transliteration needed) m

1. courtyard

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

صحن • (sahn)

1. courtyard

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

صَحْن • (ṣaḥn) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਹਨ)

1. courtyard

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “صَحن”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

صحن • (sahanu) m (Devanagari सहनु)

1. courtyard

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “صَحَنُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “صحن”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866-1938

From Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

• IPA^(key): /sˤaħn/, [ˈsˤɑ.ħ(ɪ)n]

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صحن • (ṣaḥn) m (plural صحون (ṣḥūn))

1. plate, dish

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /səɦn/

صَحْن • (ṣaḥn, vulg. ṣaḥan) m (Hindi spelling सहन)

1. courtyard

• “صحن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “صحن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “صحن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.