سَنّ
prescription
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س-ن-ن
The Arabic root س-ن-ن (s-n-n)
Form I verb سَنَّ: to sharpen
15 words in the dictionary are built from س-ن-ن, including verbs in Forms I, IV, V, VIII. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.
Most common
Noun
سُنَّة
a usual
Adjective
مُسِنّ
old
Noun
مِسَنّ
grinder
Verb · Form IV
أَسَنَّ
to grow teeth
Verbs and the nouns that come from them
to sharpen, to whet, to hone, to grind; to mold, to shape, to form; to prescribe, to introduce, to enact
سَانّ
مَسْنُون
pointy
سُنَّة
a usual
أَسَنَّ
· present يُسِنُّ
Form IV · Causative
to grow teeth, to cut one’s teeth, to teethe; to furnish with a toothlike projection (for example, a pointy end, a blade, and so on); to advance in years, to grow old, to age
إِسْنَان
مُسِنّ
old
مُسَنّ
تَسَنَّنَ
· present يَتَسَنَّنُ
Form V · Reflexive of Form II
to be or become Sunni, to feign Sunnism
تَسَنُّن
Sunnism
مُتَسَنِّن
مُتَسَنَّن
اِسْتَنَّ
· present يَسْتَنُّ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic
to clean and polish one's teeth; to prescribe, to introduce, to enact (a law, a custom); to sharpen (a knife)
اِسْتِنَان
مُسْتَنّ
مُسْتَنّ
Other nouns and adjectives
tooth
مِسَنّ
grinder
سِنَان
spearhead
أَسَنّ
with more or stronger teeth
تَسْنِين
سُنِّيّ
Sunni
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