شل

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See also: سل

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ش ل ل (š l l)
6 terms

Verb

شَلَّ (šalla) I (first-person singular past شَلَلْتُ (šalaltu), non-past يَشَلُّ (yašallu), verbal noun شَلّ (šall) or شَلَل (šalal))

  1. to be lame, to limp
Conjugation

Verb

شَلَّ (šalla) I (non-past يَشُلُّ (yašullu), verbal noun شَلّ (šall))

  1. to drive, to goad, to prod (livestock)
  2. to lame, to paralyze
Conjugation

Noun

شَلّ (šallm

  1. verbal noun of شَلَّ (šalla) (form I)
Declension
Descendants
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: شەلین (şelîn)
  • Persian: شلیدن (šalidan)

Etymology 2

From (a descendant of) Sanskrit शाल (śāla).

Noun

شُل or شَل (šul or šalm

  1. (obsolete, conjectural meaning) sakhua, sal tree (Shorea robusta)
    • a. 1248, ابن البيطار [Ibn al-Bayṭār], الجامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية [De simplicibus medicinis opus magnum]:
      شل: يقال بشين معجمة مضمومة ولام بعدها. إسحاق بن عمران: الشل بالهندية هو سفرجل هندي وهو ثمر مدور بمنزلة الجلوز لا قشر عليها وقوته مثل قوة الزنجبيل حار في الدرجة الثالثة رطب في الأولى يلطف الكيموسات الغليظة وينفع من صلابة العصب. ابن سينا: طعمه مر حريف قابض بكسر الرياح وفيه تحليل عجيب نافع للعصب.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “شل”, 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 445

Pashto

Etymology

From Proto-Pathan *wšəδ < *wəšídə, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *wisaidí,[1] from Proto-Iranian *HwiHcati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwiHćati, from Proto-Indo-European *wídḱm̥ti.

Pronunciation

Numeral

شل (šël)

  1. twenty

References

  1. ^ Julian Kreidl (2021) “Lambdacism and the development of Old Iranian *t in Pashto”, in Iran and the Caucasus

Persian

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (to dry up, wither)? Derivatives from this root like Ancient Greek σκέλλω (skéllō) have secondary meanings like "languish", which could be connected to "loose, soft". That said, dried-up objects tend to be crunchy and not soft, though they can be soft and limp at times depending on the material. Alternatively, semantic extension of Etymology 4?”

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? šol
Dari reading? šol
Iranian reading? šol
Tajik reading? šol

Adjective

شل (šol)

  1. soft, limp
  2. loose, lax

Etymology 2

Cognate with Mazanderani اشکل (eškel, thigh, thighbone), from Proto-Indo-European *skelo-.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? šal
Dari reading? šal
Iranian reading? šal
Tajik reading? šal

Noun

شل (šal)

  1. thigh of a man
  2. thin, colored leather
Derived terms

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? šil
Dari reading? šil
Iranian reading? šel
Tajik reading? šil

Noun

شل (šel)

  1. spear, javelin
  2. trident, harpoon

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Arabic أشل.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? šal
Dari reading? šal
Iranian reading? šal
Tajik reading? šal

Adjective

شل (šal)

  1. lame

References

Shina

Shina numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: شل

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit शत (śata).

Numeral

شل (šal)

  1. hundred