سنط

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the wrist or the joint between the hand and forearm. It also extends to describe a type of acacia tree used for firewood and tanning, and metaphorically to describe someone lacking a beard or facial hair.

Derived headwords

السِّنَطnoun

1.
wristboth
The joint between the hand and the forearm.
2.
acacia barkclassical
A type of acacia bark that grows in arid land, used as firewood and for tanning. It is considered excellent firewood, producing much heat and little ash.

أَسْنَعَverb

1.
to complain of the wristclassical
A man complains of his wrist, meaning his سنط (wrist).

وأسنع الرجل إذا اشتكى سنعه أي سنطه، وهو الرسغ — And the man complained of his wrist if he suffered pain in his wrist, meaning his سنط, which is the wrist.

السِّنَاطadjective

1.
beardlessboth
One who lacks a beard or facial hair entirely. It can refer to both a single person and a group.
2.
having sparse sideburnsclassical
Having light or sparse sideburns, not yet reaching the stage of a full beard.

زرق، إذا لاقيتهم، سناط — Blue-eyed, when you meet them, beardless

السُّنُوطadjective

1.
beardlessboth
One who lacks a beard or facial hair entirely. It can refer to both a single person and a group.
2.
having sparse sideburnsclassical
Having light or sparse sideburns, not yet reaching the stage of a full beard.

السُّنُوطِيّadjective

1.
beardlessclassical
One who lacks a beard or facial hair entirely.

سَنِطَverb

1.
to be beardlessclassical
To lack a beard or facial hair.

وقد سنط فيهن — And she was beardless in them.

سَنَطَverb

1.
to be beardlessclassical
To lack a beard or facial hair.

سُنُوطname

1.
name of a manclassical
A proper name of a man.

Parallel reading

المفصل بين الكف والساعد.

The joint between the hand and the forearm.

وأسنع الرجل إذا اشتكى سنعه أي سنطه، وهو الرسغ.

And the man complained of his wrist if he suffered pain in his wrist, meaning his سنط, which is the wrist.

وهو أجود حطب استوقد به الناس، يزعمون أنه أكثره نارا وأقله رمادا؛

It is the best firewood people use for burning, they claim it has the most fire and the least ash;

ويدبغون به، وهو اسم أعجمي.

And they tan with it, and it is a foreign name.

والسناط والسناط والسنوط، كله: الذي لا لحية له،

And al-Sināṭ, al-Sināṭ, and al-Sunūṭ, all mean: one who has no beard,

وقيل: هو الذي لا شعر في وجهه البتة، وقد سنط فيهن.

And it was said: it is one who has no hair on his face at all, and she was beardless in them.

التهذيب: السناط الكوسج، وكذلك السنوط والسنوطي، وفعله سنط وكذلك عامة ما جاء على بناء فعال، وكذلك ما جاء على بناء المجهول ثلاثيا.

Al-Tahdhib: Al-Sināṭ means beardless (kawsaj), and likewise al-Sunūṭ and al-Sunūṭī, and its verb is سنط (sanṭa), as is common for what comes on the pattern faʿāl, and also what comes on the passive pattern in a trilateral verb.

ابن الأعرابي: السنط الخفيفو العوارض ولم يبلغوا حال الكواسج؛

Ibn al-A'rābī: Al-Sināṭ refers to someone with light sideburns, not yet reaching the stage of being fully beardless (kawasij);

وقال غيره: الواحد سنوط، وقد تكرر في الحديث، وهو بالفتح الذي لا لحية له أصلا.

And others said: the singular is Sunūṭ, and it has been repeated in the Hadith, and it refers to one who has no beard at all.

قال ذو الرمة: زرق، إذا لاقيتهم، سناط ... ليس لهم في نسب رباط، ولا إلى حبل الهدى صراط، ... فالسب والعار بهم ملتاط

Dhu al-Rummah said: Blue-eyed, when you meet them, beardless... they have no connection in lineage, nor a path to the rope of guidance... so insults and shame cling to them.

ويقال منه: سنط الرجل وسنط سنطا، فهو سناط.

And from it is said: the man was beardless, and he was beardless with a beardlessness, so he is beardless.