silf

silf (plural silves)

1. Obsolete spelling of self.

• FILs, fils

From Arabic سِلْف (silf).

• IPA^(key): /sɪlf/

silf m (plural slejjef, feminine silfa)

1. brother-in-law

   Synonym: ħaten (distinctions between both vary)

• kunjat

From Old English self, seolf, sylf (“same, self, very, own”), from Proto-Germanic *selbaz (“self”), from Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ- (“one's own”), from Proto-Indo-European *s(w)e- (“separate, apart”).

silf

1. alternative form of self

Borrowed from French sylphe, from Latin sylphus.

silf m (plural silfi)

1. sylph