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صِحْنَآءٌ ذ , (S, and so accord. to some copies of the K,) and صَحْنَآءٌ, (thus also accord. to some copies of the K,) and with the short alif, [app. صِحْنًى and صَحْنًى,] (S, and so accord. to some copies of the K,) or صِحْنَاةٌ and صَحْنَاةٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) or thus also, (accord. to some copies of the K,) or thus, and also صِحْنَآءَةٌ and صَحْنَآءَةٌ, (accord. to other copies of the K,) or when with ة having a more special signification, [being a n. of un., and, if so, accord. to a general rule, with tenween when without ة, as is said to be the case in the TA, on the authority of Az, accord. to whom, as is also there stated, the word is pluralized by the elision of the ة,] (S,) A certain condiment, or seasoning, made of fish, (S, K,) of small fish, which has the properties of exciting appetence, and rectifying the state of the stomach: (K:) or i. q. صِيرٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) i. e. what is called in Pers. مَاهِى آوَهٌ [jelly of salted fish]: (Mgh:) AZ is related to have said that صحناة is Pers., meaning what the Arabs call صِير: IAth says that صير and صحناة are both of them Pers. words. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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