Arabic

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سُنُونُو
 سنونو on Arabic Wikipedia

Etymology

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Borrowed from Aramaic סְנוּנִותׇא / ܣܢܽܘܢܺܝܬܳܐ (sənūniyatā), from Akkadian 𒋆𒄷 (/⁠sinuntu⁠/). Compare also Ugaritic 𐎒𐎐𐎐𐎚 (snnt), Hebrew סנונית (snunít).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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سُنُونُو (sunūnūm (collective, singulative سُنُونُوَة f (sunūnuwa) or سُنُونِيَة (sunūniya))

  1. swallow

Declension

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References

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  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 118
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سنونو”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 368
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