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Sinan (other)
Sinan is a given name and surname. Sinan may also refer to: Buildings, institutions and places * Sinan, Iran, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran * Mosque Katip Sinan Qelebi, in Prizren, Kosovo * Sinan Pasha Mosque (Damascus), an early Ottoman-era mosque in Damascus, Syria, located along Suq Sinaniyya Street * Sinan Pasha Mosque (Istanbul), built by one Sinan for another * Sinan Pasha Mosque (Kaçanik), Kosovo * Sinan Pasha Mosque (Prizren), Kosovo * Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul * Sinan Erdem Dome, Istanbul * Abu Sinan, local council in Israel * Sinan, Yemen, village in San‘a’ Governorate * Kalaat es Senam, town in Tunisia * Sinan (crater), crater on Mercury (named after Mimar Sinan) * Sinanjiang Dam in Yunnan, China Places * Sinan (woreda), Ethiopia * Ain Sinan, Qatar * Sinan County, Guizhou (思南县), China * Sinan County, South Jeolla (신안군 / 新安郡), South Korea * Tell Sinan, Syria Other uses * Hakan Karahan (born 1960), Turkish writer who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinan
Sinan (Arabic: سنان ''sinān'') is a name found in Arabic and Early Arabic, meaning ''spearhead''. The name may also be related to the Ancient Greek name Sinon. It was used as a male given name. Etymology The word is possibly stems from the Arabic verb سَنَّ ''sanna'', which means to "grind, sharpen, to make a point or dot". Another older meaning probably refer to "age", the length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed, or the old age. Also, another meaning refers to "make a law/ legislation about something". The general meaning is "sharpened point/ nib of the spear or lance(t)" which could possibly have a symbolic connotation representing a pointed arch, some referring to the niche of a ''mihrab'', since the mihrab represent the "point, direction" of prayer to the Ka'abah in Islam. In a ''hadith'' narrated by Abu Juhaifa in ''Sahih al-Bukhari'', "Once Allah's Messenger went to Al-Batha' at noon, performed the ablution and offered a two rak'at Zuhr p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |