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:
- Sarafand al-Amar, 1920s–1940s site of Sarafand/Sarafend, the largest British military base in the Middle East
- Sarafand al-Kharab
- Al-Sarafand, a Palestinian village near Haifa
Other uses edit
- Short Sarafand, a British 1930s biplane flying boat
- West Nile virus: the Sarafend strain, one of its deadly strains
- ^ 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).