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