# صحن
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic, related to the root ص ف ح (ṣ f ḥ). Akin to Ge'ez ጻሕል (ṣaḥl, “bowl, jar, pan”), Hebrew צֵלָחָת (ṣelāḥāṯ, “pot”), Hebrew צַלַּחַת (ṣallaḥáṯ, “dish, bowl”), Aramaic צְלֹוחִיתָא / ܨܠ݀ܿܘܚܺܝܬܐ (ṣlōẖīṯā, “jar”).

#### Noun

صَحْن • (ṣaḥn) m (plural صُحُون (ṣuḥūn) or أَصْحُن (ʔaṣḥun) or صِحَان (ṣiḥān) or أَصْحَان (ʔaṣḥān))
* bowl, plate
* dish, plate, meal
* a kind of brass cymbal
* interior, middle
** courtyard
** interior hollow part of a hoof
* cavity of the ear
* gift

##### Descendants

* Gulf Arabic: صحن (ṣaḥan)
* Hijazi Arabic: صحن (ṣaḥan, ṣaḥin)
* South Levantine Arabic: صحن (ṣaḥn)
* → Abkhaz: а–саан (a–saan)
* → Azerbaijani: səhn
* → Chagatai: صَحْن
** Uzbek: sahn
* → Hindustani:
** Hindi: सहन (sahan)
** Urdu: صَحْن (sahn)
* → Mabaan: cakan
* → Ottoman Turkish: صحن (sahn), صحان (sahan)
** Turkish: sahan, sağan, sağın (dialectal)
** → Albanian: sahan
** → Armenian: սահան (sahan)
** → Bulgarian: саха́н (sahán)
** → Greek: σαγάνι (sagáni)
** → Laz: საღანი (sağani), სახანი (saxani) — Arkabi
** → Macedonian: саан (saan)
** → Romanian: sahan
** → Serbo-Croatian:
*** Cyrillic script: са̀хан
*** Latin script: sàhan
* → Pashto: صحن
* → Persian: صحن (sahn)
* → Punjabi: صَحْن (ṣaḥn)
* → Sindhi: صحن
* → Swahili: sahani
** → Gujarati: સાની (sānī)
** → Kikuyu: thani

### Etymology 2

From the root ص ح ن (ṣ ḥ n). Denominal from صَحْن (ṣaḥn, “bowl”) in the second sense.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤa.ħa.na/

#### Verb

صَحَنَ • (ṣaḥana) I (non-past يَصْحَنُ (yaṣḥanu), verbal noun صَحْن (ṣaḥn)) (Classical Arabic)
* strike, beat
* give, present something in a bowl (to acc. someone)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

صِحْنَ • (ṣiḥna) (form I) /sˤiħ.na/
* inflection of صَاحَ (ṣāḥa):
** third-person feminine plural past active
** second-person feminine plural imperative

### References

* “ṣlwḥy”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* Barth, Jakob (1893) Etymologische Studien zum semitischen insbesondere zum hebräischen Lexicon (in German), Berlin: H. Itzkowski, page 40
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “صحن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 820
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 63
* Freytag, Georg (1833) “صحن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 483
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “صحن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 1315
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “صحن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1656
* Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 552
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “صحن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 574
* H6745 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* H6747 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Azerbaijani
### Noun

صحن
* Arabic spelling of səhn

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤa.ħan/, /sˤa.ħin/

### Noun

صحَن or صحِن • (ṣaḥan or ṣaḥin) m (plural صحون (ṣuḥūn))
* plate

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* صحان (sahan)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn, “bowl, plate, dish”).

### Noun

صحن • (sahn or sahan) (definite accusative صحنی (sahnı, sahanı), plural صحون (suhun))
* dish, plate, any vessel for holding food, especially a round and shallow one, with a knobbed cover
    Synonym: طباق (tabak)
* (architecture) courtyard, court, an open area, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings
    Synonyms: آولی (avlı), فضا (faza)
* (architecture) terrace, esplanade, any clear, level space used for public walks, drives, or strolls

#### Derived terms

* صحن كولباصدیسی (sahan külbasdısı, “dish of mutton with onion”)
* صحنجی (sahancı, “name of a company of soldiers”)
* صحنلق (sahanlık, “stoop, perron”)
* صحنه (sahne, “scene”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: sahan, sağan, sağın (dialectal)
* → Albanian: sahan
* → Armenian: սահան (sahan)
* → Bulgarian: саха́н (sahán)
* → Greek: σαγάνι (sagáni)
* → Laz: საღანი (sağani), სახანი (saxani) — Arkabi
* → Macedonian: саан (saan)
* → Romanian: sahan
* → Serbo-Croatian:
** Cyrillic script: са̀хан
** Latin script: sàhan

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “صحن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 201
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sahan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4018
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “صحن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 298a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صحن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 756
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Catinum”, 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 162
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صحن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2939
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sahan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صحن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1169

## Pashto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

### Noun

صحن • (transliteration needed) m
* courtyard

### Further reading
## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [sahn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [säɦn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [säɦn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sɑːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [sɔːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [sæɦn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [säɦn]

### Noun

صحن • (sahn)
* courtyard
* open space
** c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 43”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:صحن بستان ذوق‌بخش و صحبت یاران خوشست وقت گل خوش باد کز وی وقت می‌خواران خوشستsahn-i bustān-i zawq-baxš u suhbat-i yārān xwaš ast waqt-i gul xwaš bād k-az way waqt-i may-xwārān xwaš astThe open space in the pleasure garden and the company of friends are delightful; May the rose have a delightful time! For she makes the wine-sippers' time be delightful.(Classical Persian transliteration)

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “صحن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

### Noun

صَحْن • (ṣaḥn) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਹਨ)
* courtyard

### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “صَحن”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

### Noun

صحن • (sahanu) m (Devanagari सहनु)
* courtyard

### Further reading

* Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “صَحَنُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
* “صحن”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤaħn/, [ˈsˤɑ.ħ(ɪ)n]
* Audio (Bethlehem):(file)

### Noun

صحن • (ṣaḥn) m (plural صحون (ṣḥūn))
* plate, dish

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /səɦn/

### Noun

صَحْن • (ṣaḥn, vulg. ṣaḥan) m (Hindi spelling सहन)
* courtyard

### Further reading

* “صحن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “صحن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* “صحن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.