صافن

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Arabic

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Etymology 1

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From صَفَنَ (ṣafana, to stand on three legs, the foreleg up).

Adjective

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صَافِن (ṣāfin)

  1. standing upon three legs, with just the tip of the foreleg on the bottom or the shank of one foreleg tied up
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 38:30-31:
      نِعْمَ الْعَبْدُ إِنَّهُ أَوَّابٌ إِذْ عُرِضَ عَلَيْهِ بِالْعَشِيِّ الصَّافِنَاتُ الْجِيَادُ
      niʕma l-ʕabdu ʔinna-hū ʔawwābun ʔiḏ ʕuriḍa ʕalay-hi bi-l-ʕašiyyi ṣ-ṣāfinātu l-jiyādu
      An excellent servant, he eschewed it with resolution when before him in the evening choice racehorses were presented.
Declension
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Etymology 2

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From Hebrew צֹפֵן (ṣōfēn, hiding). Doublet of ضَامِن (ḍāmin).

Noun

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صَافِن (ṣāfinm (plural صَوَافِن (ṣawāfin))

  1. saphenous vein
Declension
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Descendants
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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “صافن”, 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 506
  • Hyrtl, Joseph (1879) Das Arabische und Hebräische in der Anatomie[2] (in German), Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, pages 212–215
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “صافن”, 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[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1350
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “صافن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1703a