صلح

صَلَحَ • (ṣalaḥa) I (non-past يَصْلُحُ (yaṣluḥu) or يَصْلَحُ (yaṣlaḥu), verbal noun صَلَاح (ṣalāḥ) or صُلُوح (ṣulūḥ) or صَلَاحِيَة (ṣalāḥiya))

1. to be righteous
2. to be in good or perfect condition
3. to be honest, to be upright
4. (construed with لِ (li)) to suit, respond, answer the purpose, be adequate
   • 11 Century CE, Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, أنا واللّه أصلح للمعالي

     أَنَا وَ الْلَّهِ أَصْلُحُ لِلْمَعَالِي ، وَأَمْشِي مِشْيَتِي وَأَتِيهُ تِيهَا

     ʔanā wa l-llahi ʔaṣluḥu lilmaʕālī , waʔamšī mišyatī waʔatīhu tīhā

     I am, by Allah, adequate for high positions. And am going my way, with pride.

صَلُحَ • (ṣaluḥa) I (non-past يَصْلُحُ (yaṣluḥu), verbal noun صَلَاح (ṣalāḥ) or صَلَاحَة (ṣalāḥa) or صَلَاحِيَة (ṣalāḥiya) or صُلُوح (ṣulūḥ))

1. to be righteous
2. to be in good or perfect condition
3. to be honest, to be upright

صَلَّحَ • (ṣallaḥa) II (non-past يُصَلِّحُ (yuṣalliḥu), verbal noun تَصْلِيح (taṣlīḥ))

1. (transitive) to fix, mend, improve

From the root ص ل ح (ṣ l ḥ). Possibly influenced by Aramaic סָלַח (sālaḥ, “to forgive”).

صُلْح • (ṣulḥ) m

1. reconciliation
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:128:

     وَإِنِ ٱمْرَأَةٌ خَافَتْ مِن بَعْلِهَا نُشُوزًا أَوْ إِعْرَاضًا فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْهِمَا أَن يُصْلِحَا بَيْنَهُمَا صُلْحًا وَٱلصُّلْحُ خَيْرٌ

     waʔini mraʔatun ḵāfat min baʕlihā nušūzan ʔaw ʔiʕrāḍan falā junāḥa ʕalayhimā ʔan yuṣliḥā baynahumā ṣulḥan waṣ-ṣulḥu ḵayrun

     And if a woman fears from her husband any inharmony or rebuffing, there is no blame on them if they reconcile. Indeed, reconciliation is good!

2. peace

• → Azerbaijani: sülh
• → Pashto: صلح
• → Persian: صلح (solh)
• → Swahili: suluhu
• → Ottoman Turkish: صلح (sulh)
  • Turkish: sulh
• → Uyghur: سۈلھ (sülh)
• → Uzbek: sulh

• Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 51, page 292

From Arabic صَلَحَ (ṣalaḥa).

• IPA^(key): /sˤlaħ/

صلح • (ṣlaḥ) I (non-past يصلح (yiṣlaḥ))

1. to fix

   Synonyms: سقم (saqqam), صلّح (ṣallaḥ), عدّل (ʕaddal), صوّب (ṣawwab), صاوب (ṣāweb), صايب (ṣāyib)

2. to be fit, to be suitable

   ما صلحليش نمشي فديك الوقيتة.

   ma ṣlaḥlīši namši f-dīk la-wqayta

   I couldn't go then.

   (literally, “It wasn't suitable for me to go at that time.”)

3. to iron (to pass an iron over clothing)

   Synonyms: صلّح (ṣallaḥ), حدد (ḥaddad)

1=ص
4=ṣ
5=l
3=ح
2=ل
6=ḥ

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From Arabic صَلَّحَ (ṣallaḥa).

• IPA^(key): /sˤal.laħ/

صلح • (ṣlaḥ) I (non-past يصلح (yiṣlaḥ))

1. to fix

   Synonyms: سقم (saqqam), صلح (ṣlaḥ), عدّل (ʕaddal), صوّب (ṣawwab), صاوب (ṣāweb), صايب (ṣāyib)

2. to iron (to pass an iron over clothing)

   Synonyms: صلّح (ṣallaḥ), حدد (ḥaddad)

   صلح قميجتك باش تلبسها غدا.

   ṣallaḥ qamījtek bāš talbasha ḡadda

   Iron your shirt to wear it tomorrow.

From Arabic صُلْح (ṣulḥ).

صلح • (sulh)

1. peace
   • 1922, ادارهٔ حرب و سیاست [Idare-i harb ve siyaset], Istanbul: مطبعهٔ عثمانیه, page 176, originally 199; translation of Erich Ludendorff, Kriegsführung und Politik, Berlin: E. S. Mittler & Sohn, 1922:

     شرقی غالیچیا، و بوقوونیاده شمندوفر نقاباتی تأسس ایتدكدن صكره شرقده صلحی تأمین ایچون دینیه‌ستر نهری جنوبندن روس — رومن جبهه‌سنه قارشو حربه دوام ایتمك فكرندن فراغت ایتمك لازمكلیورایدی. بر قصقاچ تأثیری یاپه‌بیلمك ایچون بری قلاص غربندن یوقاره‌سه‌ره‌ت اوزرینه و دیكری دینیه‌ستر جنوبندن اولمق اوزره مضاعف بر تعرض اجراسی لازمكلیور ایده.

     Şarki Galiçya, ve Bukovinyada‌ şömendüfer nakabatı tesis itdikden soñra şarkda sulhı temin içün Dinyester nehri cenubundan rus-rumen cebhesine karşu harbe devam itmek fikrinden feragat itmek lazım geliyor idi. Bir kıskaç tesiri yapabilmek içün biri Kalas garbından yukara-yı Seret üzerine ve diğeri Dinyester cenubundan olmak üzere muzaaf bir taarruz icrası lazım geliyor idi.

     [original: Unsere weitere Absicht, nach Herstellung der Eisenbahnverbindungen in Ostgalizien und in der Bukowina zur Erzwingung des Friedens im Osten den Feldzug gegen die russisch-rumänische Front südlich des Dnjestr fortzusetzen, mußte aufgegeben werden. Er sollte in einem doppelten Angriff über den oberen Sereth westlich Galatz und hart südlich des Dnjestr bestehen und auch zangenartig wirken.]

     Our further intention, the military campaign against the Russian-Romanian front to be continued south of the Dniestr to force peace in the east, after procurement of the railroad connections in Eastern Galicia and in the Bukovina, had to be abandoned. It was supposed to consist in a double attack over the upper Siret west of Galați as well as hard south of the Dniestr and go like pincers.

• Turkish: sulh

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صلح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 765a

Borrowed from Arabic صُلْح (ṣulḥ).

صلح • (solh) (plural صلح‌ها)

1. peace; conciliation

   Synonym: آشتی (âšti)

   Antonym: جنگ (jang)

   مذاکرات صلح ― mozâkerât-e solh ― peace talks

   .یک شانس به صلح بدهید ― yek šâns be solh bedehid. ― Give peace a chance.

   صلحی که همه صلح‌ها را بر باد داد

   solhi ke hame-ye solh-hâ râ bar bâd dâd

   the peace that ended all peace

   (Persian translation of the title of the book A Peace to End All Peace)

   • c. 1670, Ṣāʾib-i Tabrīzī, “Ghazal 5040”, in دیوان [Dīvān]‎^[3]:

     بر صلح و جنگ اهل جهان اعتماد نیست
     چون صلح می کنند مهیای جنگ باش

     bar sulh u jang ahl-i jahān i'timād nēst
     čūn sulh mē-kunand muhayyā-yi jang bāš

     The people of this world put no stock in war and peace;
     When they make peace with you, be prepared for war.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

2. compromise

   Synonym: مصالحه (mosâlehe)

3. reconciliation
   • c. 1260, Saʿdī, “Ghazal 152”, in دیوان سعدی [The Divān of Saʿdī]‎^[4]:

     بیا که نوبت صلح است و دوستی و عنایت
     به شرط آن که نگوییم از آن چه رفت حکایت

     biyā ki nawbat-i sulh ast u dōstī u ināyat
     ba šart-i ān ki na-gūyēm az ān či raft hikāyat

     Come, for it's the time for making up and love and favor:
     Under the condition that we do not speak of what has gone before.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

From Arabic صَلَّحَ (ṣallaḥa).

• IPA^(key): /sˤal.laħ/, [ˈsˤɑlˤ.lˤɑħ]

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صلّح • (ṣallaḥ) II (present بصلّح (biṣalleḥ))

1. to fix, to repair, to correct

   Synonym: زبّط (zabbaṭ)

   عادي أضلّ أصلّحلك كلشي، صحّ؟

   ʕādi ʔaḍall ʔaṣalleḥ-lak kul-ši ṣaḥḥ

   It's OK for me to keep correcting everything for you, right?