سيل

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Arabic

FWOTD – 9 February 2021
سَيْل

Etymology 1

Root
س ي ل (s-y-l)

Pronunciation

Noun

سَيْل • (sayl) m (plural سُيُول (suyūl))

  1. verbal noun of سَالَ (sāla) (form I)
  2. flood, stream, torrent
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 13:17:
      أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَسَالَتْ أَوْدِيَةٌ بِقَدَرِهَا فَٱحْتَمَلَ ٱلسَّيْلُ زَبَدًا رَابِيًا
      He has sent down water from the sky so the valleys flow, according to its measure, so then the torrent bears a rising foam
    • 1934, Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, To the Tyrants of the World:
      تأمل هنالك انى حصدت رؤوس الورى و زهور الأمل
      و رويت بالدم قلب التراب و اشربته الدمع حتى ثمل
      ســيجرفك الســيل ، سيل الدماء
      و يأكلك العاصف المشتعل
      Consider there, that where you have sowed the heads of man and the flowers of hope
      And drenched with blood, the heart of the soil and watered it with tears till drunk
      You'll be swept by the stream, the torrent of blood
      And the windy flame will devour you.
    • 2017 November 15, “روسيا تصف اتهامات مدريد لها بالتدخل في كاتالونيا بـ"الهستيريا"”, in Al-Quds‎, archived from the original on 15 November 2017:
      وتواجه روسيا سيلا من الاتهامات بالتدخل في سلسلة من الأحداث السياسية المؤثرة بينها التصويت في بريطانيا لصالح الخروج من الاتحاد الأوروبي وانتخاب الرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترامب العام الماضي.
      Russia faces a flood of suspicions of interference in a touching chain of political events under which there are the vote in Britain in favor of exiting the European Union and the election of the American president Donald Trump last year.
Declension
Declension of noun سَيْل (sayl)
Singular basic singular triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal سَيْل
sayl 		السَّيْل
as-sayl 		سَيْل
sayl
Nominative سَيْلٌ
saylun 		السَّيْلُ
as-saylu 		سَيْلُ
saylu
Accusative سَيْلًا
saylan 		السَّيْلَ
as-sayla 		سَيْلَ
sayla
Genitive سَيْلٍ
saylin 		السَّيْلِ
as-sayli 		سَيْلِ
sayli
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal سَيْلَيْن
saylayn 		السَّيْلَيْن
as-saylayn 		سَيْلَيْ
saylay
Nominative سَيْلَانِ
saylāni 		السَّيْلَانِ
as-saylāni 		سَيْلَا
saylā
Accusative سَيْلَيْنِ
saylayni 		السَّيْلَيْنِ
as-saylayni 		سَيْلَيْ
saylay
Genitive سَيْلَيْنِ
saylayni 		السَّيْلَيْنِ
as-saylayni 		سَيْلَيْ
saylay
Plural basic broken plural triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal سُيُول
suyūl 		السُّيُول
as-suyūl 		سُيُول
suyūl
Nominative سُيُولٌ
suyūlun 		السُّيُولُ
as-suyūlu 		سُيُولُ
suyūlu
Accusative سُيُولًا
suyūlan 		السُّيُولَ
as-suyūla 		سُيُولَ
suyūla
Genitive سُيُولٍ
suyūlin 		السُّيُولِ
as-suyūli 		سُيُولِ
suyūli
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Armenian: սել (sel)
  • → Azerbaijani: sel
  • → Kazakh: сел (sel)
  • → Classical Persian: سیل (sayl)
  • → Russian: сель (selʹ)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: سیل (seyl), سل (sel)
  • → Uzbek: sel

Etymology 2

Verb

سِيلَ • (sīla) (form I)

  1. third-person masculine singular past passive of سَالَ (sāla)

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سيل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2647
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سيل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2735

Hijazi Arabic

Root
س ي ل
1 term

Etymology 1

From Arabic سَيْل (sayl).

Pronunciation

Noun

سيل • (sēl) m (plural سِيُول (siyūl))

  1. flood, stream, torrent

Etymology 2

From Arabic سَيَّل (sayyal).

Pronunciation

Verb

سَيَّل • (sayyal) II (non-past يِسَيِّل (yisayyil))

  1. to make flow, to cause it to run
Conjugation
    Conjugation of سيل (sayyal)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m سيلت (sayyalt) سيلت (sayyalt) سيل (sayyal) سيلنا (sayyalna) سيلتوا (sayyaltu) سيلوا (sayyalu)
f سيلتي (sayyalti) سيلت (sayyalat)
non-past m أسيل (ʔasayyil) تسيل (tisayyil) يسيل (yisayyil) نسيل (nisayyil) تسيلوا (tisayyilu) يسيلوا (yisayyilu)
f تسيلي (tisayyili) تسيل (tisayyil)
imperative m سيل (sayyil) سيلوا (sayyilu)
f سيلي (sayyili)

Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English seal, from Middle English sele, from an inflectional form of Old English seolh, from Proto-Germanic *selhaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

سيل (Rumi spelling sil)

  1. seal (pinniped)

Synonyms

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