See also: سل

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
ش ل ل (š-l-l)

Verb edit

شَلَّ (šalla) I, non-past يَشَلُّ‎ (yašallu)

  1. to be lame, to limp
Conjugation edit

Verb edit

شَلَّ (šalla) I, non-past يَشُلُّ‎ (yašullu)

  1. to drive, to goad, to prod (livestock)
  2. to lame, to paralyze
Conjugation edit

Noun edit

شَلّ (šallm

  1. verbal noun of شَلَّ (šalla) (form I)
Declension edit
Descendants edit
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: شەلین (şelîn)
  • Persian: شلیدن (šalidan)

Etymology 2 edit

From (a descendant of) Sanskrit शाल (śāla).

Noun edit

شُل or شَل (šul or šalm

  1. (obsolete, conjectural meaning) sakhua, sal tree (Shorea robusta)
    • a. 1248, ابن البيطار [Ibn al-Bayṭār], الجامع لمفردات الأدوية والأغذية [De simplicibus medicinis opus magnum]:
      شل: يقال بشين معجمة مضمومة ولام بعدها. إسحاق بن عمران: الشل بالهندية هو سفرجل هندي وهو ثمر مدور بمنزلة الجلوز لا قشر عليها وقوته مثل قوة الزنجبيل حار في الدرجة الثالثة رطب في الأولى يلطف الكيموسات الغليظة وينفع من صلابة العصب. ابن سينا: طعمه مر حريف قابض بكسر الرياح وفيه تحليل عجيب نافع للعصب.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension edit

References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “شل”, 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 445

Pashto edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Pathan *wšəδ < *wəšídə, from an ancestral Middle Iranian form *wisaidí,[1] from Proto-Iranian *HwiHcati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwiHćati, from Proto-Indo-European *wídḱm̥ti.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

شل (šël)

  1. twenty

References edit

  1. ^ Julian Kreidl (2021) “Lambdacism and the development of Old Iranian *t in Pashto”, in Iran and the Caucasus

Persian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? šol
Dari reading? šol
Iranian reading? šol
Tajik reading? šol

Adjective edit

شل (šol)

  1. soft, limp
  2. loose, lax

Etymology 2 edit

Cognate with Mazanderani اشکل (eškel, thigh, thighbone), from Proto-Indo-European *skelo-.

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? šal
Dari reading? šal
Iranian reading? šal
Tajik reading? šal

Noun edit

شل (šal)

  1. thigh of a man
  2. thin, colored leather
Derived terms edit

Etymology 3 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? šil
Dari reading? šil
Iranian reading? šel
Tajik reading? šil

Noun edit

شل (šel)

  1. spear, javelin
  2. trident, harpoon

Etymology 4 edit

From Arabic أشل.

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? šal
Dari reading? šal
Iranian reading? šal
Tajik reading? šal

Adjective edit

شل (šal)

  1. lame

References edit

Shina edit

Shina numbers (edit)
 ←  10  ←  12 100
10
    Cardinal: شل

Etymology edit

Inherited from Sanskrit शत (śata).

Numeral edit

شل (šal)

  1. hundred