سل

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
س ل ل (s-l-l)

Cognate to Classical Syriac ܫܠܳܐ (šəllā, to pull out gently) and Hebrew שָׁלַל (šālal, to draw out), Ge'ez ሰሰለ (säsälä, to withdraw).

Verb

سَلَّ (salla) I, non-past يَسُلُّ‎ (yasullu)

  1. to pull out, to withdraw, to draw, to remove gently
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 1:187:
      مَنْ سَلَّ عَلَيْنَا السَّيْفَ فَلَيْسَ مِنَّا.
      man salla ʕalaynā s-sayfa falaysa minnā.
      He who draws the sword against us is none of us.
  2. (passive voice) to suffer tuberculosis, to be consumptive
Conjugation

Noun

سَلّ (sallm

  1. verbal noun of سَلَّ (salla) (form I)
Declension

Noun

سُلّ or سِلّ (sull or sillm

  1. tuberculosis
Declension

Descendants

  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: سیل (sîl)
    Southern Kurdish: سڵ (sill)
  • Persian: سل (sel)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic סַלָּא / ܣܰܠܳܐ (sallā, basket).

Alternative forms

Noun

سَلّ (sallm (plural سِلَال (silāl))

  1. basket
Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

سَلْ (sal) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of سَأَلَ (saʔala)

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

سِلْ (sil) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of سَالَ (sāla)

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 75–76
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 336

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Vulgar variant of سیل (seyl)

Noun

سل (sel)

  1. Alternative form of سیل, flood

Descendants

Pashto

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *catám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćatám.

Pronunciation

Numeral

سل (sël)

  1. hundred

Persian

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Etymology 1

From Arabic سِلّ (sill).

Noun

سل (sell)

  1. tuberculosis

Etymology 2

Noun

سل (sol)

  1. (music) G, Sol (the fifth note of the fixed-Do solfège scale)
  2. (music) Sol (the fifth note of the movable-Do solfège scale, i.e. the dominant)