Sarafand

Sarafand or Sarafend (Ṣarafand / صرفند) is an Arabic rendition of the Phoenicia Toponymy *Ṣrpt.

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Places

• 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

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Other uses

• Short Sarafand, a British 1930s biplane flying boat
• West Nile virus: the Sarafend strain, one of its deadly strains

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