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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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sirwāl سِرْوال , var. sirwīl, pl. sarāwīlᵘ 
ID – • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 28Mar2023
√SRWL 
n. 
1a trousers, pants; b drawers; c panties – WehrCowan1976 
▪ Cheung2017rev: [on ↗sirbāl] ultimately of Ir origin, but prob. borrowed indirectly, via BiblAram sarbāl ‘tunics’1 < oIr/Scyth *šarabāra-, cf. Grk gloss sarábara ‘Scythian trousers’, Pers šalwār ‘trousers’. For details, see below, section DISC.
▪ Rolland2014: [on both ↗sirbāl and sirwāl] «du même étymon Phlv que le Pers šalvār ou šulvār ‘calçon, pantalon de marin et de voyageur’, composé de s šal ‘cuisse’, IE *(s)kel ‘crochu, tortueux’, et de vār ‘comme’.2 sirbāl est probablement transité par l’Aram. / La différence sémantique entre les deux mots trouve peut-être son explication dans le fait que le costume deux-pièces oriental s’appelle en persan šalvār qamīṣ, littéralement ‘pantalon-chemise’. L’arabe sirbāl semble être ce qui reste de cette appellation. Ainsi, pendant que le persan šalvār devenait l’arabe sirwāl et continuait à ne désigner que le bas du costume, šalvār qamīṣ se réduisait à sirbāl (sous-entendu qamīṣ) pour n’en désigner que le haut. (Hypothèse personnelle.) »
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SRY سري 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 28Mar2023
√SRY 
“root” 
▪ SRY_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ SRY_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ SRY_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to seep, (of liquids) spread unobtrusively; to remove; to travel by night’ 
▪ From protSem *√ŠRY ‘to loosen, remove, begin’ – Huehnergard2011.
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SṬḤ سطح 
ID – • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 28Mar2023
√SṬḤ 
“root” 
▪ SṬḤ_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ SṬḤ_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ SṬḤ_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘to be flat, flattened, to spread out, upper side’ 
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SṬR سطر 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√SṬR 
“root” 
▪ SṬR_1 ‘line, row; to draw lines, rule’ ↗saṭr
▪ SṬR_2 ‘cleaver’ ↗sāṭūr
▪ SṬR_3 ‘fable, legend, saga, story’ ↗ʔusṭūraẗ
▪ SṬR_4 ↗SYṬR
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♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘row of trees, palm trees, objects arranged in a sequence; written words in rows; falsehood; stories with no foundations’. – It has, however, been suggested that the root originated from a borrowing either from Grk or Pers. 
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