Sarafand or Sarafend (Ṣarafand / صرفند) is an
Arabic
Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
rendition of the
Phoenician place-name *Ṣrpt.
Places
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Sarafand, Lebanon, also spelled Sarafend
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Sarepta
Sarepta (near modern Sarafand, Lebanon) was a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast between Sidon and Tyre, also known biblically as Zarephath. It became a bishopric, which faded, and remains a double (Latin and Maronite) Catholic titula ...
, an ancient Phoenician city at the location of the modern Lebanese town
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Tzrifin, area in central Israel previously known as "Sarafand" or "Sarafend", which used to contain two namesake Palestinian villages:
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Sarafand al-Amar, 1920s–1940s site of Sarafand/Sarafend, the largest British military base in the Middle East
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Sarafand al-Kharab
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Al-Sarafand
Al-Sarafand () was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village near the Mediterranean shore south of Haifa. In Ottoman tax records, it is shown that the village had a population of 61 inhabitants in 1596. According to a land and population su ...
, a Palestinian village near Haifa
Other uses
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Short Sarafand, a British 1930s biplane flying boat
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West Nile virus
West Nile virus (WNV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that causes West Nile fever. It is a member of the family ''Flaviviridae'', from the genus ''Flavivirus'', which also contains the Zika virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus. The virus ...
: the Sarafend strain, one of its deadly strains
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