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

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), verbal noun صَحْن (ṣaḥn)) (Classical Arabic)

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

صِحْنَ • (ṣiḥna) (form I) /sˤiħ.na/

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

• “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^[1] (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^[2] (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^[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1315
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “صحن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], 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^[5], 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 or sahan) (definite accusative صحنی (sahnı, sahanı), plural صحون (suhun))

1. dish, plate, any vessel for holding food, especially a round and shallow one, with a knobbed cover

   Synonym: طبق (tabak)

2. (architecture) courtyard, court, an open area, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings

   Synonyms: آولی (avlı), فضا (faza)

3. (architecture) terrace, esplanade, any clear, level space used for public walks, drives, or strolls

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

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “صحن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 201
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sahan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4018
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صحن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[6], Vienna: F. Beck, page 298a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صحن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[7], 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^[8], 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^[9], Vienna, column 2939
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sahan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صحن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1169

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

صحن • (transliteration needed) m

1. courtyard

• [11]

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

Readings
Classical reading?	sahn
Dari reading?	sahn
Iranian reading?	sahn
Tajik reading?	sahn

Dari	صحن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	саҳн

صحن • (sahn)

1. courtyard
2. open space
   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 43”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[12]:

     صحن بستان ذوق‌بخش و صحبت یاران خوشست
     وقت گل خوش باد کز وی وقت می‌خواران خوشست

     sahn-i bustān-i zawq-baxš u suhbat-i yārān xwaš ast
     waqt-i gul xwaš bād k-az way waqt-i may-xwārān xwaš ast

     The open space in the pleasure garden and the company of friends are delightful;
     May the rose have a delightful time! For she makes the wine-sippers' time be delightful.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “صحن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

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]

• Audio (Bethlehem):

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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.