صنف

Etymology 1
In the root one also finds, which fits 🇨🇬, suspiciously enough with alternative vocalization as in Arabic. Due to the restricted semantic range and the varying vocalization one wonders about a borrowing from. 🇨🇬 has and 🇨🇬 and, but 🇨🇬,  seems also similar, via the idea of an anyhow abstract pigeonhole or  things are fitted into, not emphatic but no doubt related because in the same isolect there is the geminate verb , which is also found in 🇨🇬, while the Syriac base stem  means “to introduce, to insert”; apparently a — anlaut variation. For the meaning development in to a “sort” also contrast.

The ultimate origin is suggested by the Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou as ultimately, related to , well also found in 🇨🇬 / 🇨🇬, the geminate stem in Syriac and 🇨🇬 “to perforate” and “to wound”, the Syriac causative stem “to open up as to show”, with an unemphatic variant 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to sort, classify, or categorize something
 * 2) to compile or compose

Noun

 * 1) kind, sort, specimen
 * 2) class, genus, species, category
 * 3)  fringe, hem, border of a garment

Etymology 2
Perhaps via.

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1)  class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
 * 2) guild a group of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans

Etymology 2
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Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) a genre
 * 2)  gender