salla

Borrowed from Arabic صَلَاة (ṣalāh).

• IPA^(key): /sál.làː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

sallā̀ f (possessed form sallàr̃)

1. prayer, salat (principally in Islam)
2. (Islam) religious holiday

From Proto-Samic *sëlë.

salla

1. fathom (unit of length)

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From Arabic صَلَّى (ṣallā, “to pray”). In this sense it was replaced in Maltese with talab, a loan translation of Sicilian prigari.

In order to understand the semantic development, it would have to be known whether the association with Islamic prayer has been inherited through the centuries. If so, this could well explain the origin of the negative sense “to blaspheme” among the staunchly Catholic Maltese. However, that association may simply be due to a modern learned practice after the Arabic cognate verb.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.la/

salla (imperfect jsalli, past participle msalli)

1. to praise God
2. to perform the Islamic obligatory prayer
3. to blaspheme
4. (obsolete) Alternative form of sella (“to greet”)

From Proto-Samic *sëlë.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsalla/

salla

1. embrace, hug
2. fathom (unit of measure)
3. armful

• sallut

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Inherited from Sanskrit शल्य (śalya, “dart”).^[1]

salla n or m^[1][2]

1. dart, javelin
2. arrow
3. stake, splinter,
4. porcupine quill

When the noun is masculine, the nominative, vocative and accusative have a different set of forms:

• sallaka (“porcupine”)
• sallatta (“surgeon”)

salla m^[2]

1. porcupine

From Proto-Samic *sëlë.

salla

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• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

salla

1. girlfriend, lover

salla

1. inflection of sallar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Arabic صَلَّى (ṣallā, “he blessed; may he bless”).

salla

1. Only used in sallallahu aleyhi ve sellem