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

   Synonyms: سیلان (seyelân), 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

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “سیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 123
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “seyl”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 4, 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]

• (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

سیل • (sayl / seyl) (Tajik spelling сайл, or сел)

1. flood

   Synonym: آب‌خیزی (āb-xēzī / âb-xizi)

Derived terms

• سیلاب (saylāb / seylâb)

Descendants

• → Chagatai: سیل (syl /⁠sēl⁠/)
  • Uzbek: sel
  • Uyghur: سەل (sel)
• → Turkmen: sil

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]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säjl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säj]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säj]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sejl̥]

• (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)

1. (chiefly Dari) look, gaze

Derived terms

• سیل کردن (sayl kardan / seyl kardan)

Descendants

• → Chagatai: سیل (syl /⁠säyl⁠/)
  • Uzbek: sayl, sayil

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