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√ṢQLB
▪ ṢQLB_1 ‘Slav’ ↗ṣaqlab Other values, now obsolete, include (BK1860):▪ †ṢQLB_2 ‘hard; strong, robust, eating much (camel); hard and strong (head, skull)’: †¹ṣiqlāb
▪ †ṢQLB_3 ‘white’: †²ṣiqlāb
▪ †ṢQLB_4 ‘red’: †³ṣiqlāb
▪ [v1] : ? With partly retrograde assimilation (ṣ‑ < s under the influence of following q), from ↗saqlab(ī) ‘Slav’?
▪ [v2] : ? Cf. ↗ṣulb ? Meaning first attested eC8. – Any relation to [v1] ‘Slav’ (sometimes also ‘slave’)?
▪ [v3] : etymology obscure. – Any relation to the fact that the Slavs (who often served as slaves) were of white complexion? In contrast, ‘Ethiopians’ could be termed ṣaqālibaẗ al-zanǧ ‘the negro\black Slavs (= slaves?)’.
▪ [v4] : etymology obscure. – Like [v3] ‘white’, also ‘red’ may have emerged as an attribute of Slavic slaves.
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▪ [v2] : first attestation in the expression bayna maqaḏḏay raʔsihī l-ṣiqlābi, by Ǧandal b. Muṯannà al-Ṭuhawī (dated 709 in DHDA).
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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▪ [v1] Not from Ar ṣaqlab but from the same source are Eur words for the ‘Slavs’; see ↗saqlabī.
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