سیل

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See also: سيل and سئل

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَيْل (sayl, flood, stream, torrent).

Noun

سیل (seyl)

  1. flood, inundation, deluge, a disastrous overflow of water from a lake or other body of water
    Synonym: طوفان (tufan)
  2. torrent, a violent flow or stream that suddenly raises and runs rapidly, as down a precipice
    Synonym: سیلاب (seylab)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: sel, seyl

Further reading

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic سَيْل (sayl).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sayl
Dari reading? sēl, sayl
Iranian reading? seyl
Tajik reading? sel, sayl

Noun

Dari سیل
Iranian Persian
Tajik сел, сайл

سیل (seyl)

  1. flood
    Synonym: آب‌خیزی (âb-xêzi)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Unknown, perhaps a corruption of Arabic سَائِر (sāʔir, to wander, to walk (around)), or a corruption of the now archaic سهستن (sahistan, to seem) from early Classical Persian.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sayl
Dari reading? sayl
Iranian reading? seyl
Tajik reading? sayl

Verb

سیل (seyl)

  1. (chiefly Dari) look, gaze
Derived terms

References

Ushojo

Noun

سیل (sel)

  1. bird cell
  2. recreation, excursion