سل

maṣdar سَلٌّ and استلّهُ; maṣdar also اِسْتِلَالٌ. [In the CK, الِاسْلال is put in the place of الِاسْتِلَال.]

Also اسلّهُ, in the same sense.

El-Farezdak says: [In the morning when you turned back, as though your swords were ذآنين (plural of ذُؤْنُونٌ, a species of fungus) upon your necks — for the sword was hung upon the shoulder, not by a waist-belt — not drawn forth]

In that verse he has separated the doubled letter; so IAar relates it, but Th relates لَمْ تَسَلَّلِ [for تَتَنَسَلَّلِ].

He drew the thing out from another thing; or he pulled it out gently; or he drew it out, as a sword from its scabbard, or a hair from dough.

From a tradition.

From another tradition.

Said of a colt: he was drawn forth as a سَلِيل.

. Said of a man.

. Said of a sheep or goat. [From this it would seem that the second person of the past tense is سَلِلْتَ and the.]

on this sense On the authority of Lh.

In the passive form, with ḍamm. The disease is سِلّ.

See Form 1, second sentence.

The disease is سِلّ.

See Form 7; and see also Form 1, in the former half of the paragraph.

on this sense It (a thing) became gently pulled out or drawn forth, as a sword from its scabbard, or a hair from dough.

See Form 1, first and second sentences.

And see also Form 7, last sentence.

The river had a rivulet, or streamlet, branching off from it.

As maṣdar of سُلْسِلَ, it means a thing's being connected with another thing. [It is also the maṣdar of سَلْسَلَ, in which case it means the connecting of a thing with another thing.]

According to IAar; such a piece is called سَلْسَلَة.

See also Form 1, third sentence.

Said of water: it ran into the throat; or it ran down a slope; or it became rippled like a chain, in running in a shallow and rugged bed, or when struck by the wind.

Applied to a man: whose teeth are falling out; losing his teeth.

The feminine, with ة, is likewise applied to a sheep or goat, on the authority of Lh; and to a she-camel whose teeth have fallen out from extreme old age, or one extremely aged with no tooth left, on the authority of IAar.

See also سَلَّةٌ, in two places.

See what next follows.

This word and سُلَالٌ mean the same, as do سُلٌّ and سَلَّةٌ: consumption, or phthisis; a wasting, oppressive and fatal disease.

The first is the more common, and often occurs in the verses of chaste poets, though El-Hareeree says in the “Durrat el-Ghowwás” that it is a mistaken term of the common people, and that the second is the right one.

A well known disease, said in the medical books to be one of the diseases of girls, because of the abundance of blood in them.

According to the physicians, an ulcer, or ulcers, or ulceration, in the lungs, following (تُعَقِّبُ, grammatically referring to سَلَّة) either ذَات الرِّئَة [inflammation of the lungs] or ذَات الجَنْب [pleurisy]. [In the CK, بِعَقَبِ ذات الرِّيّةِ اوذاتِ الجَنْبِ is put in the place of تُعَقِّبُ ذَاتَ الرِّئَةِ أَوْ ذَاتَ الجَنْبِ, and in what follows the genitive case is put for the nominative in four places.]

Or a rheum and defluxions; or a long cough, attended with constant fever.

The drawing of swords; also سِلَّةٌ.

Also the rush of a horse among other horses in running; or the rush of a horse striving to outstrip. [I read فِى سِبَاقِهِ, as in one copy of the S, instead of فى سِيَاقِهِ, as in other copies of the S and in the TA.]

Or عَلَى سَائِرِ الخَيْلِ.

See also سِلٌّ.

Also a basket of the kind called جُونَة; or a thing like the جُونَة, or like the covered جُونَة, which is also called سَبَذَةٌ — so says Az; a receptacle in which fruit is carried, sometimes covered with red skin. In the present day the word is commonly applied to a basket made of twigs, oblong and deep, generally between a foot and a foot and a half in length.

سَلٌّ means the same; and what is termed سَلَّةُ الخُبْزِ [the bread-basket] is well known.

IDrd does not think that سَلَّةٌ, in the meaning explained above, is an Arabic word.

[The diminutive سُلَيْلَةٌ occurs in the K under جُونَةٌ, and in the Mgh under رَبْعَةٌ, etc.]

The plurals are سِلَالٌ and سَلَّاتٌ, and the collective noun سَلٌّ, of which Abu-l-Hasan says that in his opinion it is a rare kind of plural, because it denotes what is made by art, not created, and that it should more properly be regarded as of the class of كَوْكَبٌ and كَوْكَبَةٌ [which are synonymous], because this class is more common than that of سَفِينَةٌ and سَفِينٌ.

Also a fault, or defect, in a watering-trough or tank, or in a jar of the kind called خَابِيَة; or a breach between the أَنْصَابِ, or more properly between the نَصَائِب [the stones set up, and cemented together with kneaded clay, around the interior] of a watering-trough or tank.

Also one's sewing a skin, or hide, with two thongs in a single puncture, or stitch-hole.

See سَلَّةٌ, first sentence.

The same as سِلٌّ.

A drawn sword; the same as مَسْلُولٌ.

Clear, or pure, beverage or wine, as though gently drawn off from dust or bits of rubbish; such is said to be the drink of Paradise. Or cool beverage or wine.

Or drink clear of dust or bits of rubbish and of turbidness, the word being of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ; or drink that goes down easily in the throat. [See also سُلَالَةٌ and سَلْسَالٌ.]

The channel of the water, or place where the water flows, in a valley; or the middle of a valley, where the main body of water flows.

And a wide and deep valley that gives growth to the trees called سَلَم and سَمُر; or that gives growth to the سَلَم, ضَعَة, يَنَمَة and حَلَمَة. سَالٌّ means the same; or that word means a place in which there are trees; or a narrow channel of a torrent in a valley; or a low place surrounded by higher ground, in which the water collects. En-Nadr.

The plural of both is سُلَّانٌ; or that is the plural of the first according to Kr, and of the second according to As [and the S]; or the plural of the second is سَوَالُّ. En-Nadr.

One says سَلِيلٌ مِنْ سَمُرٍ, as one says غَالٌّ مِنْ سَلَمٍ.

Used by the poet Zuheyr to mean that they journeyed swiftly.

The brain of the horse.

What is, or becomes, drawn forth, or gently drawn forth, from a thing; or سُلَالَةُ شَىْءٍ is an extract of a thing, and hence the clear, or pure, part, or the choice, best, or most excellent part of a thing, because it is drawn off from the thick, or turbid, part.

It is said in the Qur'ān 23:12; or the meaning is: from a pure, choice, or most excellent sort of earth or clay.

See سَلِيلٌ, second sentence.

Also a certain long fish, having a long مِنْقَار [apparently meaning a beak-like snout, or nose].

See سَلَّةٌ (of which this is the diminutive), in the latter half of the paragraph.

Ism waḥda with ة. Mentioned in the M and K in this article as well as in the article سلأ: see that article.

See سَالٌّ.

[And it seems to be mentioned somewhere in the S, though not in this article, as meaning a maker of the sort of baskets called سِلَال (plural of سَلَّةٌ): Golius explains it, on the authority of J, as meaning qui sportas qualosque contexit.]

This word, and سَلْسَالٌ and سُلَاسِلٌ: sweet water that goes down easily in the throat; water that enters the throat easily because of its sweetness and clearness. Or cold, or cool, water.

Er-Rāghib: water that has moved to and fro in the place where it has stayed until it has become clear.

And the first and second also mean mellow wine; Lth explains the first as sweet and clear, running easily into the throat when drunk.

A boy, or young man, light, or active, in spirit; also لُسْلُسٌ.

See سِلْسِلَةٌ, in two places.

As a maṣdar: see R. Q. 1.

Also a long piece of a camel's hump; according to AA it is called لَسْلَسَةٌ, and according to As لِسْلِسَةٌ.

A chain; the same as زِنْجِيرْ in Persian; rings of iron or the like of the metals.

It is derived from السَّلْسَلَةُ, meaning “the being connected” with another thing. Plural سَلَاسِلُ.

It was a custom to stretch a سِلْسِلَة across a river or a road, the ships or boats or the passengers being stopped by it, so that an officer set over it might take the tithes from them.

Also the وَحَرَة, a small reptile — a species of lizard, the same that is called السِلْسِلَةُ الرَّقْطَآءُ — spotted black and white, with a slender tail which it moves about when running.

See سَلْسَلٌ, in two places.

See سِلْسِلَةٌ.

See سِلْسِلَةٌ, in two places.

See سَلْسَلٌ.

Ism fāʿil of سَلَّ: drawing out, or forth, etc.

See also سَلِيلٌ.

See the preceding entry.

A bribe.

From a tradition; or the meaning is: and no stealing. See also the article غل, and Form 4.

In the phrase مَضْجَعُهُ كَمَسَلِّ شَطْبَةٍ, in the tradition of Umm-Zara, meaning [his sleeping-place is] like a green palm-stick drawn forth from its skin [because of his slenderness], or, as some say, like a sword drawn from its scabbard, it is originally a maṣdar used in the sense of an ism mafʿūl. [See also the article شطب.]

A large needle, a packing-needle; plural مَسَالُّ.

Subtle of machination in stealing.

See سَلِيلٌ.

Also affected with the disease termed سِلّ: regularly derived from سُلَّ, but irregular as derived from أَسَلَّهُ. Sb says: as though the سِلّ were put into him.

AA says that the مَسْلُولَة of غَنَم — that is, applied to a شَاة, meaning a sheep or goat, or a ewe or she-goat — is one whose powers, or forces, are of long continuance.

And that one says of such فِى فِيهَا سَلَّةٌ. [In this phrase فى seems clearly to have been put first by mistake: see سَلَّةٌ.]

A thing having its parts, or portions, connected one with another.

See the preceding entry, in two places.