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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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SLḤF سلحف 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 10Feb2022
√SLḤF 
“root” 
▪ SLḤF_1 ‘turtle, turtoise’ ↗sulaḥfāẗ
▪ SLḤF_2 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ SL_ ‘…’ ↗…

 
▪ SLḤF_1 : from protSem *šalaḥpaw/y-, *šalapḥaw/y- / *salaḥpaw/y-, *salapḥaw/y- ‘turtle’ – MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #202.
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SLḤF 1 Akk šeleppû (šelappû, šelippû) ‘turtle; a snake’, šeleppûtu ‘she-turtle’ (from oAkk on), Ebl ša-la-pù-um, interpreted as /šalaḥpuyum/ ‘taratuga’ in Conti 1990:67 (cf. also Civil 1984b:90), Ar sulaḥfà, sulḥafà, sulaḥfāʔ, sulaḥfāẗ, sulaḥfiyaẗ ‘turtle’; Mhr salefḥōt ‘turtle’ (poss. < Ar); ? Syr slwpytʔ ‘testudo’: likely an Akkadism – MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #202.
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sulaḥfāẗ سُلَحْفاة , var. silaḥfāẗ, pl., salāḥifᵘ 
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√SLḤF 
n.f. 
turtle, tortoise – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ From protSem *šalaḥpaw/y-, *šalapḥaw/y- / *salaḥpaw/y-, *salapḥaw/y- ‘turtle’ – MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #202.
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▪ MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #202: Akk šeleppû (šelappû, šelippû) ‘turtle; a snake’, šeleppûtu ‘she-turtle’ (from oAkk on), Ebl ša-la-pù-um, interpreted as /šalaḥpuyum/ ‘taratuga’ in Conti 1990:67 (cf. also Civil 1984b:90), Ar sulaḥfà, sulḥafà, sulaḥfāʔ, sulaḥfāẗ, sulaḥfiyaẗ ‘turtle’; Mhr salefḥōt ‘turtle’ (poss. < Ar); ? Syr slwpytʔ ‘testudo’: likely an Akkadism.
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▪ Cf. also a number of forms with z- in Ar dialects: zəḥəlfa ‘turtle’, zaḥlīfe ‘lizard’, zíləḥfe, zilḥifa ‘turtle’ – MilitarevKogan2005 (SED II) #202.
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►sulaḥfāʔiyyaẗ, n.f., dawdling, dilatoriness: abstr. formation in ‑iyyaẗ. 
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