سیل

See also: سيل and سئل

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• سل (sel)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَيْل (sayl, “flood, stream, torrent”).

Noun

سیل • (seyl)

1. flood, inundation, deluge, a disastrous overflow of water from a lake or other body of water

   Synonym: طوفان (tufan)

2. 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], 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

From Arabic سَيْل (sayl).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sajl]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [seːl], [säjl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [seːl], [säjl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [seːl], [säjl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [seːl̥], [säjl̥]

• (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

Dari	سیل
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сел,сайл

سیل • (seyl)

1. flood

   Synonym: آب‌خیزی (âb-xêzi)

Derived terms

• سیلاب (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

• (Dari, standard) IPA^(key): /sajl/
  • (Dari, colloquial) IPA^(key): /saj/

Verb

سیل • (sayl) (Dari)

1. look
2. gaze

Derived terms

• سیل کردن (sayl 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)

1. bird cell
2. recreation, excursion