Discover the meaning of the term Snh (سنه) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readSinha the food or drink: to see it alter and turn mouldy. Sinha the palm tree: the years passed over it; it is then sanah, sinahah and sanha' (plural: sinah). Tasannah: to grow old. In the Noble Revelation: '... look at your food and your drink: it has not altered (lam yatasannah)' (Al-Baqarah, 259). Sinha with someone: to stay with him a year or more. As-sanah: the time the sun takes to cross the twelve signs of the zodiac: the solar year (plural: sanawat, sinun); the completion of twelve revolutions of the moon: the lunar year; drought and famine. In the Noble Quran: 'And We certainly seized the people of Pharaoh with years of famine and a deficiency of fruits, that they might remember' (Al-A'raf, 130). The origin of sanah is sinahah: its ha was elided, after transferring its vowel to the 'ayn (the nun). In the usage of the Law: from each day to its like of the coming month, according to the lunar months. As-saniyah: the bucketed she-camel (na'dhah), that is, the she-camel watered by bucket from the well (plural: siwan); in the proverb: 'the going of the saniyah is a journey without interruption'; the irrigation channel (saqiyah). Al-musannah: a wall built against the water, also called a dam (sadd). In the Mejelle (article 1050): the hadd (boundary) and the sadd, a structure built against the water or at the edges of the water outlets, plural: masaniyat.