شلال

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See also: سلال

Arabic

شَلَّال

Etymology 1

From Aramaic, but badly attested there, see شِلَّة (šilla, hank, skein) for what is attested in Aramaic; however Mishnaic Hebrew offers an exact שלולית (torrent, cataract etc.). Contaminated the root ش ل ل (š-l-l) with meanings of flowing on or pouring forth if those are not separately borrowed from other badly attested Aramaic forms for “flowing”.

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Pronunciation

Noun

شَلَّال (šallālm (plural شَلَّالَات (šallālāt))

  1. waterfall
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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Noun

شِلَال (šilālm (plural أَشِلَّة (ʔašilla))

  1. Nonstandard form of شَلِيل (šalīl, saddle padding)
    • 577 AH / 1181–82 CE, ابن هشام اللخمي [Ibn Hišām al-Laḵmiyy], edited by José Pérez Lázaro, الْمَدْخَلُ إِلَى تَقْوِيمِ اللِسَانِ وَتَعْلِيمِ الْبَيَانِ (al-madḵalu ʔilā taqwīmi l-lisāni wataʕlīmi l-bayāni) (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas; 6), volume II, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 1990, →ISBN, Nr. 701, page 356:
      ويقولون لما يجعل على عَجُز الفَرَس متّصلا بالسّرج شِلَال. والصّواب شَلِيلٌ.
      They say for what is applied upon the croup of a horse and connected with the saddle šilāl. But the correct is šalīl.
Declension

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ش ل ل
1 term
شَلَّال

Etymology

From Arabic شَلَّال (šallāl).

Pronunciation

Noun

شّلَّال (šallālm (plural شلّالات (šallālāt))

  1. waterfall

Libyan Arabic

Pronunciation

Noun

شلال (šlālm (plural for sense 2 شلالات (šlālāt))

  1. (vulgar) feces
  2. (vulgar) a contemptible person

Noun

شلال (šəllālm

  1. (vulgar) a person who defecates a lot
  2. (vulgar) a contemptible person
  3. (vulgar) a person who claims to have the ability to do or accomplish something, but has no power to keep up to what he says.