Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
ء س ل (ʔ-s-l)
 
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Verb edit

أَسُلَ (ʔasula) I, non-past يَأْسُلُ‎ (yaʔsulu)

  1. to be smooth and even, to be lank
Conjugation edit

Verb edit

أَسَّلَ (ʔassala) II, non-past يُؤَسِّلُ‎ (yuʔassilu)

  1. to make smooth, to even, to make lank
  2. to sharpen, to point
Conjugation edit

Noun edit

أَسَل (ʔasalm (collective, singulative أَسَلَة f (ʔasala))

  1. any shoots or twigs which are long and slender
  2. rush (Juncus)
  3. (archaic) spear
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 44:225:
      يُبَارِينَ الأَعِنَّةَ مُصْعِدَاتٍ عَلَى أَكْتَافِهَا الأَسَلُ الظِّمَاءُ
      yubārīna l-ʔaʕinnata muṣʕidātin ʕalā ʔaktāfihā l-ʔasalu ẓ-ẓimāʔu
      They pull at the rein, going upward; on their shoulders are spears thirsting (for the blood of the enemy).
Declension edit

Etymology 2 edit

Root
س ل ل (s-l-l)

Verb edit

أَسَلَّ (ʔasalla) IV, non-past يُسِلُّ‎ (yusillu)

  1. to draw or pull out slowly
  2. to afflict with tuberculosis
Conjugation edit

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

أَسِلْ (ʔasil) (form I)

  1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of سَالَ (sāla)

References edit

  • أسل” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “أسل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 36
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “أسل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 59
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “أسل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 26