# صنعت
## Arabic
### Verb

صنعت (form I)
* صَنَعْتُ (ṣanaʕtu) /sˤa.naʕ.tu/: first-person singular past active of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)
* صَنَعْتَ (ṣanaʕta) /sˤa.naʕ.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)
* صَنَعْتِ (ṣanaʕti) /sˤa.naʕ.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)
* صَنَعَتْ (ṣanaʕat) /sˤa.na.ʕat/: third-person feminine singular past active of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)
* صُنِعْتُ (ṣuniʕtu) /sˤu.niʕ.tu/: first-person singular past passive of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)
* صُنِعْتَ (ṣuniʕta) /sˤu.niʕ.ta/: second-person masculine singular past passive of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)
* صُنِعْتِ (ṣuniʕti) /sˤu.niʕ.ti/: second-person feminine singular past passive of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)
* صُنِعَتْ (ṣuniʕat) /sˤu.ni.ʕat/: third-person feminine singular past passive of صَنَعَ (ṣanaʕa)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَنْعَة (ṣanʕa, “craft, trade, art”); compare Azerbaijani sənət, Bashkir сәнғәт (sənğət), Kazakh санат (sanat), Turkmen sungat, Uyghur سەنئەت (sen'et) and Uzbek sanʼat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [sɒˈnɒt]
* (vulgarly also) IPA: [zɒˈnɒt]

### Noun

صنعت • (sanʼat or zanʼat) (definitive accusative صنعتی (sanʼatı, zanʼatı), plural صنعات (sanʼaat, zanʼaat))
* art, the conscious production or arrangement of elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions
    Synonyms: فن (fenn), هنر (hüner)
* trade, craft, handicraft, a branch of skilled work, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill
* craft, dexterity, ingenuity, adroitness, the ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways
    Synonyms: اوسته‌لق (ustalık), معرفت (maʼrifet), هنر (hüner)
* ability, skill, talent, competence, the innate, learned, or acquired capacity or competence to do something well
    Synonyms: مهارت (maharet), هنر (hüner)
* (figuratively) trick, artifice, any skillful and artful act or instance of ingeniousness

#### Derived terms

* صنعت اوكرتمك (sanʼat öğretmek, “to teach a trade”)
* صنعت اوكرنمك (sanʼat ögrenmek, “to learn a trade”)
* صنعت صاتمق (sanʼat satmak, “to boast of being skillful”)
* صنعت چیقارمق (sanʼat çıkarmak, “to invent or introduce an art”)
* صنعتسز (sanʼatsız, “in which no skill is shown”)
* صنعتكار (sanʼatkâr, “artist; artisan”)
* صنعتلو (sanʼatlı, “ingenious, skillful”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: sanat
* → Albanian: zanat
* → Armenian: սանաթ (sanatʻ)
* → Bulgarian: заная́т (zanaját)
* → Macedonian: занат (zanat)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: за̀на̄т
    Latin script: zànāt
* → Ubykh: санаҳаҭ (sanahat)

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sanat2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4054
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “san'at”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1102
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صنعت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 768
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Artificium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 88
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صنعت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2992
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sanat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صنعت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1187

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَنْعَة (ṣanʕa).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [san.ʔat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sʊn.ʔät̪], [sän.ʔät̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sʊn.ʔät̪], [sän.ʔät̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sʊ.nät̪], [sä.nät̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [su.nät̪], [sä.nät̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [sæn.ʔæt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [sän.ʔät̪]

### Noun

صنعت • (san'at) (plural صنعت‌ها (san'at-hâ))
* industry

#### Derived terms

* صنعتی (san'ati)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian صنعت (san'at), from Arabic صَنْعَة (ṣanʕa).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /sən.(ʔ)ət̪/

### Noun

صَنْعَت • (san'at) f (Hindi spelling सनत)
* industry
* art, skill, handicraft, workmanship

### References

* “صنعت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “صنعت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.