Arabic

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Root
س ل ع (s l ʕ)
1 term

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Noun

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سِلْعَة (silʕaf (plural سِلَع (silaʕ))

  1. commodity, good, article, piece of merchandise

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Noun

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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

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  • 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