أسل

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Arabic

Etymology 1.1

Root
ء س ل (ʔ s l)
3 terms
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Verb

أَسُلَ (ʔasula) I (non-past يَأْسُلُ (yaʔsulu), verbal noun أَسَالَة (ʔasāla))

  1. to be smooth and even, to be lank
Conjugation

Etymology 1.2

Verb

أَسَّلَ (ʔassala) II (non-past يُؤَسِّلُ (yuʔassilu), verbal noun تَأْسِيل (taʔsīl))

  1. to make smooth, to even, to make lank
  2. to sharpen, to point
Conjugation

Etymology 1.3

Noun

أَسَل (ʔasalm (collective, singulative أَسَلَة f (ʔasala))

  1. any shoots or twigs which are long and slender
  2. rush (Juncus)
  3. (archaic) spear
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 44:225:
      يُبَارِينَ الأَعِنَّةَ مُصْعِدَاتٍ عَلَى أَكْتَافِهَا الأَسَلُ الظِّمَاءُ
      yubārīna l-ʔaʕinnata muṣʕidātin ʕalā ʔaktāfihā l-ʔasalu ẓ-ẓimāʔu
      They pull at the rein, going upward; on their shoulders are spears thirsting (for the blood of the enemy).
Declension

Etymology 2

Root
س ل ل (s l l)
10 terms

Verb

أَسَلَّ (ʔasalla) IV (non-past يُسِلُّ (yusillu), verbal noun إِسْلَال (ʔislāl))

  1. to draw or pull out slowly
  2. to afflict with tuberculosis
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Verb

أسل (form I)

  1. أَسِلْ (ʔasil) /ʔa.sil/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of سَالَ (sāla)
  2. أَسَلْ (ʔasal) /ʔa.sal/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of سَالَ (sāla)
  3. أُسَلْ (ʔusal) /ʔu.sal/: first-person singular non-past passive jussive of سَالَ (sāla)

References

  • أسل” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أسل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 36
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “أسل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 59
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أسل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 26