سليل

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Of the root س ل ل (s-l-l). The lexicographers say it means “male foetus”, “horse-foal”, ”any animal that is born with yet the fetal membrane on”; it is hence plausible that this word is an earlier borrowing of the same Aramaic source as assumed for شَلِيل (šalīl), see there.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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سَلِيل (salīlm (plural سُلَّان (sullān), feminine سَلِيلَة (salīla))

  1. descendant, offshoot

Declension

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Adjective

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سَلِيل (salīl) (feminine سَلِيلَة (salīla), masculine plural سُلَّان (sullān))

  1. drawn, unsheathed

Declension

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References

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  • سليل” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سليل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 336
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سليل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1117
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سليل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1397
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سليل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 584