سیل

See also: سيل and سئل

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

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

Persian

Etymology 1

From Arabic سَيْل (sayl).

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

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

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

References

Ushojo

Noun

سیل (sel)

  1. bird cell
  2. recreation, excursion
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