صنعا

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

صنعا

1. Arabic spelling of Səna

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَنْعَاء (ṣanʕāʔ).

Proper noun

صنعا • (san'a)

1. Sanaa (the capital and largest city of Yemen)

Descendants

• Turkish: San'a

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صنعا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1187

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَنْعَاء (ṣanʕāʔ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [san.ˈʔɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sän.ʔɑ́ː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [sän.ʔɑ́ː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sä.nɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sä.nɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæn.ʔɒ́ː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sän.ʔɔ́]

Readings
Classical reading?	san'ā
Dari reading?	san'ā
Iranian reading?	san'â
Tajik reading?	sanʾo

Proper noun

Dari	صنعا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Санъо

صنعا • (san'â)

1. Sanaa (the capital and largest city of Yemen)

Derived terms

• صنعائی (san'â'i, “San'ani”)