ف ص ل

An extension of ف ص ص‎ (f-ṣ-ṣ) dating to Central Semitic. Compare later development of ح ص ل‎ (ḥ-ṣ-l) from ح ص ص‎ (ḥ-ṣ-ṣ) and even later قَصَلَ‎ (qaṣala).

ف ص ل • (f-ṣ-l)

1. related to shedding, separation

Verbs

• Form I: فَصَلَ‎ (faṣala, “to shed”)
  • Verbal noun: فَصْل‎ (faṣl)
  • Active participle: فَاصِل‎ (fāṣil)
  • Passive participle: مَفْصُول‎ (mafṣūl)
• Form II: فَصَّلَ‎ (faṣṣala, “to subdivide”)
  • Verbal noun: تَفْصِيل‎ (tafṣīl)
  • Active participle: مُفَصِّل‎ (mufaṣṣil)
  • Passive participle: مُفَصَّل‎ (mufaṣṣal)
• Form III: فَاصَلَ‎ (fāṣala, “to secede from”)
  • Verbal noun: مُفَاصَلَة‎ (mufāṣala), فِصَال‎ (fiṣāl)
  • Active participle: مُفَاصِل‎ (mufāṣil)
  • Passive participle: مُفَاصَل‎ (mufāṣal)
• Form VII: اِنْفَصَلَ‎ (infaṣala, “to detach, to secede”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْفِصَال‎ (infiṣāl)
  • Active participle: مُنْفَصِل‎ (munfaṣil)
• Form VIII: اِفْتَصَلَ‎ (iftaṣala, “to ablactate; to transplant”)
  • Verbal noun: اِفْتِصَال‎ (iftiṣāl)
  • Active participle: مُفْتَصِل‎ (muftaṣil)
  • Passive participle: مُفْتَصَل‎ (muftaṣal)

Nouns

• فَصْلَة‎ (faṣla, “a single act of separation”)
• فِصْلَة‎ (fiṣla, “extract, offprint”)
• فَصِيل‎ (faṣīl, “weaned camel”); pl. فِصَال‎ (fiṣāl)
• فَصِيلَة‎ (faṣīla, “offshoot, faction”); pl. فَصَائِل‎ (faṣāʔil)
• مَفْصِل‎ (mafṣil, “joint”); pl. مَفَاصِل‎ (mafāṣil)
• اِنْفِصَالِيَّة‎ (infiṣāliyya, “separatism”)
• فَصَّال‎ (faṣṣāl, “always plauding”)
• فَاصِلَة‎ (fāṣila, “mussel which parts into two; interval; a kind of metrical foot”)
• فَيْصَل‎ (fayṣal), فَيْصَلِيّ‎ (fayṣaliyy, “arbiter”)

Adjectives

• مَفْصِلِيّ‎ (mafṣiliyy, “joint-related”)
• اِنْفِصَالِيّ‎ (infiṣāliyy, “separatist”)

• "ف ص ل" in The Quranic Arabic Corpus
• Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 970
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ف ص ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 352–353

ف ص ل

1. Related to separation

Verbs and verb forms

• Form I: فصل‎ (faṣal, “to separate; to dismiss”)
  • Noun Form: فصل‎ (faṣl, “separation; dismissal; season, section”)
  • Active Participle: فاصل‎ (fāṣel)
• Form II: فصّل‎ (faṣṣal, “to detail”)
  • Noun Form: تفصيل‎ (tafṣīl, “detail”)
  • Passive Participle: مفصّل‎ (mfaṣṣal, “detailed”)
• Form III: فاصل‎ (fāṣal, “to bargain”)
• Form VII: انفصل‎ (infaṣal, “to be separated”)
  • Passive Participle: منفصل‎ (minfaṣal, “separate”)

Nouns

• فاصلة‎ (fāṣle, “comma”)
• فصّالة‎ (faṣṣāle, “hinge”)
• مفصل‎ (mafṣal, “joint”)