Discover the meaning of the term Sinn (سن) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readWith sin kasra and noun strengthening: flow, a tooth, and age; plural asnane; plural-of-plural asna, asnoun, among irregular plurals, verified in our Jami’ al-Ghoumouz, source of abundance, commentary of al-Kafiya, plural’s chapter.
Lexically: one of the teeth, a bone piece sprouting in the jaw, feminine: said « this a tooth »; plural asnane, asna; diminutive sunayna; man thirty-two teeth: four incisors, four premolars, four canines, four rear molars, sixteen molars. Some say: four incisors, four premolars, four canines, four rear molars, four wisdom molars, twelve molars. Some divide teeth: incisors, premolars, molars. The tooth of the thing: every dentate part fixed on its form, as comb’s, sickle’s, saw’s, key’s, pen’s tooth. Said of so-and-so: his tooth grew: aged, age advancing. Estimated man’s age: estimating his age by guess; said: so-and-so so-and-so’s age: like him age-wise.
The knife and like, sina: toothing it; he masnoun, sanin. Of stone and like: polishing. Of teeth: aligning them. Of the matter: clarifying. So-and-so the year: instituting it; whoever began a matter folk followed after: instituting it.
A bone sprouting the animal’s mouth; applied today the front four, canines following then molars.