See also: سلال

Arabic

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شَلَّال

Etymology 1

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From Aramaic, but badly attested there, see شِلَّة (šilla, hank, skein) for what is attested in Aramaic; however Mishnaic Hebrew offers an exact שלולית (torrent, cataract etc.). Contaminated the root ش ل ل (š-l-l) with meanings of flowing on or pouring forth if those are not separately borrowed from other badly attested Aramaic forms for “flowing”.

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Noun

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شَلَّال (šallālm (plural شَلَّالَات (šallālāt))

  1. waterfall
Declension
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Descendants
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  • Gulf Arabic: شلال (šallāl)
  • Hijazi Arabic: شلال (šallāl)
  • Azerbaijani: şəlalə
  • Ottoman Turkish: شلاله
  • Tajik: шалола (šalola)
  • Uzbek: shalola
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Noun

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شِلَال (šilālm (plural أَشِلَّة (ʔašilla))

  1. Nonstandard form of شَلِيل (šalīl, saddle padding)
    • 577 AH / 1181–82 CE, ابن هشام اللخمي [Ibn Hišām al-Laḵmiyy], edited by José Pérez Lázaro, الْمَدْخَلُ إِلَى تَقْوِيمِ اللِسَانِ وَتَعْلِيمِ الْبَيَانِ (al-madḵalu ʔilā taqwīmi l-lisāni wataʕlīmi l-bayāni) [Introducción a la corrección del lenguaje y la enseñanza de la elocuencia] (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas; 6), volume II, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 1990, →ISBN, Nr. 701, page 356:
      ويقولون لما يجعل على عَجُز الفَرَس متّصلا بالسّرج شِلَال. والصّواب شَلِيلٌ.
      They say for what is applied upon the croup of a horse and connected with the saddle šilāl. But the correct is šalīl.
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Hijazi Arabic

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Root
ش ل ل
1 term
 
شَلَّال

Etymology

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From Arabic شَلَّال (šallāl).

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Noun

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شّلَّال (šallālm (plural شلّالات (šallālāt))

  1. waterfall

Libyan Arabic

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شلال (šlālm (plural for sense 2 شلالات (šlālāt))

  1. (vulgar) feces
  2. (vulgar) a contemptible person

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شلال (šəllālm

  1. (vulgar) a person who defecates a lot
  2. (vulgar) a contemptible person
  3. (vulgar) a person who claims to have the ability to do or accomplish something, but has no power to keep up to what he says.