Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
ص و ل (ṣ-w-l)

Verb edit

صَالَ (ṣāla) I, non-past يَصُولُ‎ (yaṣūlu) [+ عَلَى (object) = onto]

  1. to jump furiously against the enemy, to spring in agitation
  2. to rush upon, to make an assault, to attack
  3. to be in power, to hold sway
    يَصُولُ وَيَجُولُyaṣūlu wayajūluIt is rampant
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

Root
ص ل ي (ṣ-l-y)

Adjective edit

صَالٍ (ṣālin) (feminine صَالِيَة (ṣāliya), masculine plural صَالُونَ (ṣālūna), feminine plural صَالِيَات (ṣāliyāt))

  1. active participle of صَلِيَ (ṣaliya)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 38:59:
      هَـٰذَا فَوۡجࣱ مُّقۡتَحِمࣱ مَّعَكُمۡ ۖ لَا مَرۡحَبَۢا بِهِمۡ ۚ إِنَّهُمۡ صَالُوا۟ ٱلنَّارِ
      hāḏā fawjun muqtaḥimun maʕakum lā marḥaban bihim ʔinnahum ṣālū an-nāri
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation edit

Ottoman Turkish edit

 
صال

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sāl (raft); cognate with Azerbaijani sal, Bashkir һал (hal), Kazakh сал (sal), Kyrgyz сал (sal), Southern Altai сал (sal), Turkmen sal, Tuvan сал (sal), Uyghur سال (sal), Uzbek sol and Yakut аал (aal).

Noun edit

صال (sal)

  1. raft, a primitive, flat-bottomed, usually wooden watercraft able to float and drift on water
    Synonym: رمث (remes)
  2. winepress, a press used to extract juice from grapes as the first step of winemaking

Derived terms edit

  • صالجی (salcı, conductor or constructor of rafts)

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: sal

Further reading edit