سیل
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- سل (sel)
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic سَيْل (sayl, “flood, stream, torrent”).
Noun
سیل • (seyl)
- flood, inundation, deluge, a disastrous overflow of water from a lake or other body of water
- Synonym: طوفان (tufan)
- torrent, a violent flow or stream that suddenly raises and runs rapidly, as down a precipice
- Synonym: سیلاب (seylab)
Derived terms
- سیل صویی (seyl suyu, “waters of an inundation”)
- سیلاب (seylab, “torrent”)
Descendants
- Turkish: sel, seyl
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “seyl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4180
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “seyl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1135
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 709
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Torrens”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1680
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سیل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 2735
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1103
Persian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic سَيْل (sayl).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ˈsajl/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [seːl], [säjl]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sejl̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [sel], [säjl]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | sayl |
| Dari reading? | sēl, sayl |
| Iranian reading? | seyl |
| Tajik reading? | sel, sayl |
Noun
سیل • (sayl / seyl) (Tajik spelling сайл, or сел)
- flood
- Synonym: آبخیزی (āb-xēzī / âb-xizi)
Derived terms
- سیلاب (saylāb / seylâb)
Etymology 2
Unknown, perhaps a corruption of Arabic سَائِر (sāʔir, “to wander, to walk (around)”), or a corruption of the now archaic سهستن (sahistan, “to seem”) from early Classical Persian.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ˈsajl/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [säjl]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sejl̥]
- (Tehrani) IPA(key): [sej]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [säjl]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | sayl |
| Dari reading? | sayl |
| Iranian reading? | seyl |
| Tajik reading? | sayl |
Verb
سیل • (sayl / seyl) (Tajik spelling сайл)
Derived terms
- سیل کردن (sayl kardan / seyl kardan)
References
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “سیل”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- “The Wilson English – Dari Dictionary, Search results for "سیل"”, in Webonary
Ushojo
Noun
سیل (sel)