Sarafand or Sarafend (Ṣarafand / صرفند) is an Arabic rendition of the Phoenician place-name *Ṣrpt.[1]

Places edit

  • Sarafand, Lebanon, also spelled Sarafend
    • Sarepta, an ancient Phoenician city at the location of the modern Lebanese town
  • Tzrifin, area in central Israel previously known as "Sarafand" or "Sarafend", which used to contain two namesake Palestinian villages:
  • Al-Sarafand, a Palestinian village near Haifa

Other uses edit

  1. ^ Marom, Roy; Zadok, Ran (2023). "Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)Toponyms in Haseki Sultan's Endowment Deed (1552)". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 139 (2).