اسنتوا
Root: سنت
Form: 4
Full Definition
اسنتواIV
They experienced drought, or barrenness: derived from سَنَةٌ; the و being changed into ت, [for سَنَةٌ is originally سَنْوَةٌ, or, accord. to one dial. سَنْهَةٌ,] to distinguish between this verb and أَسْنَى as signifying “ he remained in a place a year: ” or, as Fr says, they imagined the ه [meaning ة, in سَنَةٌ,] to be a radical letter, finding it to be the third letter, and therefore changed it into ت: accord. to Sb, the ت [in أَسْنَتَ] is substituted for the ى [in أَسْنَى]; and there is no instance of the like except ثِنْتَانِ [in which the ت is substituted for the final radical, ى], and in words of the measure اِفْتَعَلَ [as اِتَّسَرَ for اِيتَسَرَ]. (M in art. ثنى.)
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