س ل ف

See also: س ل ق

Arabic

Root

س ل ف • (s-l-f)

1. related to taking, giving and the passing of things

Derived terms

Verbs and verbal derivatives

• Form I: سَلَفَ (salafa, “to precede, to pass by; to flatten; to smear”)
  • Verbal noun: سَلَف (salaf, “an interest-free loan, a good deed, an advanced payment; remarkable thing experienced”)
  • Active participle: سَالِف (sālif, “antecedent, precedent; sideburns”)
  • Passive participle: مَسْلُوف (maslūf)
• Form II: سَلَّفَ (sallafa, “to have a snack, (with ه (h)) to give a snack to a host; (with ه (h)) to lend money”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسْلِيف (taslīf, “borrowing, loan, advance”)
  • Active participle: مُسَلِّف (musallif)
  • Passive participle: مُسَلَّف (musallaf, “advanced, lent, loan”)
• Form III: سَالَفَ (sālafa, “(with ه (h)) to surpass, reach; to walk along with; to precede”)
  • Verbal noun: مُسَالَفَة (musālafa)
  • Active participle: مُسَالِف (musālif)
  • Passive participle: مُسَالَف (musālaf)
• Form IV: أَسْلَفَ (ʔaslafa, “to flatten, rake; to loan”)
  • Verbal noun: إِسْلَاف (ʔislāf)
  • Active participle: مُسْلِف (muslif)
  • Passive participle: مُسْلَف (muslaf, “advanced, lent, loaned”)
• Form V: تَسَلَّفَ (tasallafa, “(with من + ه (h)) to get a loan, borrow”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَلُّف (tasalluf)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَلِّف (mutasallif, “calculated, premeditated”)
  • Passive participle: مُتَسَلَّف (mutasallaf)
• Form VI: تَسَالَفَ (tasālafa, “to marry (two men with two sisters)”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَالُف (tasāluf)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَالِف (mutasālif)
  • Passive participle: مُتَسَالَف (mutasālaf)
• Form VIII: اِسْتَلَفَ (istalafa, “to ask for a loan or an advanced sum of money”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِلَاف (istilāf, “advance, loan, borrowing”)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَلِف (mustalif, “borrowed, taken in advance”)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَلَف (mustalaf)

Nouns and adjectives

• سَلْف (salf, “backpack, knapsack”)
• سِلْف (silf, “brother-in-law”)
• سَلِف (salif, “precedent, anterior”)
• سُلْفَة (sulfa, “something done in advance; tidbit, snack; raked ground; sheepskin”)
• سَلَفِيَّة (salafiyya, “Salafism”)
  • سَلَفِيّ‎ (salafiyy, “Salafist, Salafi”)
• مِسْلَفَة (mislafa, “rake”)
• سُلَاف (sulāf, “wine obtained from juice flowing from grapes without pressing them”)
• سَالِفَة (sālifa, “upper part of the neck, where the sideburns are with men”)

References

• Corriente, Federico (2005) “س ل ف”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe‎^[1] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 549
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “س ل ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 675
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “س ل ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 343–344
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “س ل ف”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[4] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1125–1126
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “س ل ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[5], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1407–1409
• Al-Zamakhsharī, Asās al-Balāgha (d. 1143 CE) أساس البلاغة للزمخشري
• Al-Ṣaghānī, al-ʿUbāb al-Dhākhir wa-l-Lubāb al-Fākhir (d. 1252 CE) العباب الزاخر للصغاني