Arabic edit

Root
س ل ع (s-l-ʕ)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

سِلْعَة (silʕaf (plural سِلَع (silaʕ))

  1. commodity, good, article, piece of merchandise

Declension edit

Noun edit

سَلْعَة (salʕaf (plural سِلَع (silaʕ)) (obsolete)

  1. ganglion, ulcer on the skin of size from chickpeas to melons
    • 975–997, محمد بن أحمد الخوارزمي [muḥammad ibn ʕaḥmad al-ḵwārizmī], edited by Gerlof van Vloten, مفاتيح العلوم [mafātīḥ al-ʕulūm], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1895, pages 158 line 1–3:
      Commented in Seidel, Ernst (1915) “Die Medizin im Kitâb Mafâtîḥ al ʿUlûm”, in Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medizinischen Sozietät zu Erlangen[1] (in German), volume 47, page 18 Anm. 30.
  2. a knob that comes forth in a tree

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References edit

  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سلعة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1407b
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سلعة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 588