شنا

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Persian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Attested as Middle Persian [script needed] (šnāz, swimming), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (to swim), compare Avestan 𐬯𐬥𐬁 (snā) and Sanskrit स्नान (snāna, bathing).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? šinā
Dari reading? šinā
Iranian reading? šenâ
Tajik reading? šino

Noun

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شنا (šenâ)

  1. swimming
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References

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  • Blochmann, Heinrich (1872) The Prosody of the Persians According to Saifi, Jami and Other Writers[1], Calcutta, page 8 of the preface
  • Buyaner, David (2006) “On the Designation of ‘water–skin’ in some Languages of Central Asia”, in Acta Orientalia, volume 67, pages 115–125
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 176 Nr. 792
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 431
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “, آشنا آشناه”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum[2] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 40a
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “اشنا”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum[3] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 105b
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “شنار”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum[4] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 468
  • Wolff, Fritz (1935) Glossar zu Firdosis Schahname[5] (in German), Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, page 575a