شنا

See also: سنا

Persian

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شنا

Alternative forms

شناه (šināh), شنار (šinār), شناو (šināw), شناب (šināb), آشناه (āšnāh), آشنه (āšna), آشناب (āšnāb), شیناب (šīnāb), آشنا (āšnā), اشنا (ašna), شناز (šināz)

Etymology

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

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃi.nɑː]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃɪ.nɑː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃɪ.nɑː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃi.nɔː]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃe.nɒː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃi.nɔ]

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

Noun

شنا • (šenâ)

swimming

Related terms

شنا کردن (šenâ kardan)
شناویدن (šināwīdan, “to swim”)
شناور (šināwar, “swimmer”)
اشنان (ušnān), شنان (šunān, “saltwort”)
اشنه (ušna, “moss?; = (duwāla)”)

References

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