سيل

See also: سئل and سیل

Arabic

FWOTD – 9 February 2021
سَيْل

Etymology 1

From the root س ي ل (s-y-l).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sajl/

Noun

سَيْل (sayl) m, plural سُيُول (suyūl)

  1. verbal noun of سَالَ (sāla) (form I)
  2. flood, stream, torrent
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 13:17:
      أَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَسَالَتْ أَوْدِيَةٌ بِقَدَرِهَا فَٱحْتَمَلَ ٱلسَّيْلُ زَبَدًا رَابِيًا
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
      He has sent down water from the sky so the valleys flow, [each valley] according to its measure, so then the torrent bears a rising foam [...]
    • 2017 November 15, “روسيا تصف اتهامات مدريد لها بالتدخل في كاتالونيا بـ"الهستيريا"”, in Al-Quds, archived from the original on 15 November 2017:
      وتواجه روسيا سيلا من الاتهامات بالتدخل في سلسلة من الأحداث السياسية المؤثرة بينها التصويت في بريطانيا لصالح الخروج من الاتحاد الأوروبي وانتخاب الرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترامب العام الماضي.
      Russia faces a flood of suspicions of interference in a touching chain of political events under which there are the vote in Britain in favor of exiting the European Union and the election of the American president Donald Trump last year.
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Armenian: սել (sel)
  • Azerbaijani: sel
  • Persian: سیل (seyl)
  • Russian: сель (selʹ)
  • Ottoman Turkish: سیل (seyl), سل (sel)

Verb

سِيلَ (sīla) (form I)

  1. third-person masculine singular past passive of سَالَ (sāla)

References

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), سيل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2647
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), سيل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2735

Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English seal, from Middle English sele, from an inflectional form of Old English seolh, from Proto-Germanic *selhaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sel], [sɪl]
  • Rhymes: -sel, -el

Noun

سيل (Rumi spelling sil)

  1. seal (pinniped)

Synonyms

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