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SYL سيل 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 16Apr2022
√SYL 
“root” 
▪ SYL_1 ‘to flow, stream’ ↗sāla
▪ SYL_2 ‘pocket set into the side seam(s) of a galabiya’ (EgAr) ↗sayyālaẗ
▪ SYL_3 ‘garnet (precious stone)’ ↗sīlān
▪ SYL_4 ‘Ceylon’ ↗sīlānᵘ
▪ SYL_5 ‘…’ ↗syl

Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (accord. to BAH2008): ‘to flow, torrent, flooding, flowing, inundation, to melt’. 
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sāl- / sil- سالَ/سِلْـــ , i (sayl, sayalān
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√SYL 
vb., I 
1 to flow, stream; 2a to be or become liquid; b to melt – WehrCowan1976. 
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eC7 sāla (vb.intrans., ‘(of water) to flow, (of the ground) to run with water’) Q 13:17 ʔanzala min-a ’l-samāʔi māʔan fa-sālat ʔawdiyatun bi-qadari-hā ‘He sends from the sky water, so valleys flow, each according to its capacity’
eC7 sayl (‘torrent, inundation; an inundation which caused the bursting of the dyke and destruction of the city of Maʔrib, Saba, in the first or second century A.D.) Q 34:16 fa-ʔaʕraḍū fa-ʔarsalnā ʕalay-him sayla ’l-ʕarimi ‘but they turned away, so We let loose on them a flooding of the ʕiram dam’
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sāla luʕābuhū ʕalà, his mouth watered for

sayyala, vb. II, to make flow, cause to stream, liquefy, melt, dissolve (s.th.)
ʔasāla, vb. IV, = II

BP#3712sayl, pl. suyūl, 1a flood, inundation; b torrent, torrential stream: vn. or perh. the etymon proper | sayl ʕurām, huge mass, flood, stream; balaġa l-saylᵘ l-zubà, the matter has reached its climax, has come to a head
saylaẗ, n.f., stream: n.un.
BP#4579suyūlaẗ, n.f., liquid state, liquidity, flow(ing)
sayyāl, 1 adj., a streaming, pouring, torrential; b fluid, liquid; 2 n. a a liquid; b stream; c a fluid: ints. formation | qalam sayyāl, facile pen, fluent style
sayyālaẗ, n.f., 1 rivulet: f. of preceding; 2 see ↗s.v.
sayalān, n., 1a flowing, flow; b running; 2 deliquescence, liquefaction; 3 gonorrhea (med.): vn.
masīl, pl. masāyilᵘ, n., river bed, rivulet: n.loc.
BP#3269sāʔil, 1 adj., fluid, liquid; 2 (pl. sawāʔilᵘ), n., a liquid, a fluid: PA I. | ʕilm al-sawāʔil, hydraulics
sāʔiliyyaẗ, n.f., fluidity, liquid state of aggregation (phys.): abstr. formation in iyyaẗ.

For other meanings attached to the root, cf. ↗sayyālaẗ (EgAr), ↗sīlān and ↗sīlānᵘ, as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√SYL. 
EgAr sayyālaẗ سَيّالة , pl. āt, sayā̆yīl 
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n.f. 
pocket set into the side seam(s) of a galabiya – BadawiHinds1986 
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sīlān سيلان , pl. sayālīnᵘ 
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√SYL 
n. 
1 garnet (precious stone); 2 for another meaning, see ↗sīlānᵘ (diptote) – WehrCowan1976.
 
▪ Accord. to Rolland2014 an abbreviation for ḥaǧar Sīlān ‘stone from Ceylon, see ↗sīlānᵘ.
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sīlānᵘ سيلانُ 
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n.geogr. 
1 Ceylon; 2 (tript.) garnet (precious stone) – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ Accord. to Rolland2014 from Fr Ceylan < Port Ceilão, alteration of (Sinhala) Śrī Laṅkā [ʃriː laŋkaː].
▪ From ‘Ceylon’ is also the ḥaǧar Sīlān *‘stone from Ceylon’, i.e., the ‘garnet’, see ↗sīlān.
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