سیل
Ottoman Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- سل (sel)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic سَيْل (sayl, “flood, stream, torrent”).
Noun edit
سیل • (seyl)
- flood, inundation, deluge, a disastrous overflow of water from a lake or other body of water
- Synonym: طوفان (tufan)
- torrent, a violent flow or stream that suddenly raises and runs rapidly, as down a precipice
- Synonym: سیلاب (seylab)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “seyl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4180
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “seyl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1135
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 709
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Torrens”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1680
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 2735
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1103
Persian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [sajl]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sejl̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [sel], [säjl]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | sayl |
Dari reading? | sēl, sayl |
Iranian reading? | seyl |
Tajik reading? | sel, sayl |
Noun edit
Dari | سیل |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | сел, сайл |
سیل • (seyl)
Derived terms edit
- سیلاب (seylâb)
Etymology 2 edit
Unknown, perhaps a corruption of Arabic سَائِر (sāʔir, “to wander, to walk (around)”), or a corruption of the now archaic سهستن (sahistan, “to seem”) from early Classical Persian.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
Derived terms edit
- سیل کردن (sayl kardan)
References edit
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سیل”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- “The Wilson English – Dari Dictionary, Search results for "سیل"”, in Webonary
Ushojo edit
Noun edit
سیل (sel)