سيال

• IPA^(key): /saj.jaːl/

سَيَال or سِيَال • (sayāl or siyāl) m (collective, singulative سَيَالَة f (sayāla) or سِيَالَة (siyāla))

1. milk-vetch (Astragalus spp.) or other legume that lets a milky substance flow when plucked, usually of Acacieae tribe
   • a. 540, Imruʔ al-Qays, أمِنْ ذِكرِ سلمَى أنْ نأتْكَ تَنوصُ‎^[1]:

     وَذِي أُشُرٍ تَشُوقُهُ وَتَشُوصُ
     مَنَابِتُهُ مِثْلُ ٱلسُدُوسِ وَلَوْنُهُ
     كَشَوْكِ السِيَالِ فَهُوَ عَذْبٌ يَفِيصُ

     wa-ḏī ʔušurin tašūqu-hū wa-tašūṣu
     manābitu-hū miṯlu s-sudūsi wa-lawnu-hū
     ka-šawki l-siyāli fa-huwa ʕaḏbun yafīṣu

     And these between-times thrutch him to and fro and rapture,
     its plantings equalling woad and the colour it passes,
     like milk-vetch, it’s a thing with but a sweetness that lapses.

• → Translingual: Acacia seyal, Vachellia seyal

سَيَّال • (sayyāl) (feminine سَيَّالَة (sayyāla), masculine plural سَيَّالُونَ (sayyālūna), feminine plural سَيَّالَات (sayyālāt))

1. flowing much, torrential, prone to flow

• → Azerbaijani: səyyal
• → Persian: سَيَّال
• → Ottoman Turkish: سَيَّال
  • Turkish: seyyal

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “سيال”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1486b–c.
• Plant Diversity in Saudi Arabia: الأسماء العربية / الأسماء المحلية من النباتات في المملكة العربية السعودية where that name is ascribed to Acacia etbaica now named Vachellia etbaica, Acacia seyal now named Vachellia seyal, Acacia johnwoodii now named Vachellia johnwoodii