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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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SFL سفل 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√SFL 
“root” 
▪ SFL_1 ‘lower/lowest part of s.th., bottom’ ↗sufl
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♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to be low, to go low; to be base, to be vile’ 
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sufl سُفْل 
ID … • Sw … • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√SFL 
n. 
lowest part of s.th., bottom – WehrCowan1976. 
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘low’) Akk šaplu ‘unterer’, Hbr šāp̄āl, Syr šap̄lā, SAr śfl; (Ar safala, safila, vb. I).
 
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►safala, u (sufūl, safāl), and safila, a, vb. I, to be low, be below s.th. (‑h)
►safala, u, vb. I, to turn downward
►safula, u (safālaẗ), and safala, u (safl), vb. I, to be low, base, despicable.
►tasaffala, vb. V, 1 to abase o.s., sink low, go from bad to worse; 2 to act in a base manner: Dt-stem.
►suflī, adj., lower, at the bottom; low: nisba formation, from sufl.
►siflaẗ: siflaẗ al‑nās, n.f., lowly people, riffraff.
►safālaẗ, n.f., 1 lowness; 2a lowliness; 2b baseness, ignominy, despicableness: vn. I.
►sufālaẗ, n.f., lowest part.
► BP#2267ʔasfalᵘ, f. suflà, pl. ʔasāfilᵘ, adj., lower; lowest; lower or lowest part, bottom | ʔasfalᵃ, (quasi‑)prep., under, underneath, below.
►sāfil, pl. safalaẗ, adj., 1 low; 2a lowly; 2b base, mean, despicable: PA I.
 
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