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▪ Accord. to ClassAr dictionaries, the value ‘to rival, contend’ of the assoc. L-stem, sāǧala (in ClassAr attested also in the sense of ^†‘to emulate, imitate s.o.’), is based on ^†saǧl ‘bucket filled with water’ (↗^†SǦL_3), the original meaning of the denom. vb. III thus being ‘to compete with s.o. in the drawing of water [from a well], each bringing forth one’s saǧl bucket, the like of what the other brought forth’ – cf. Lane iv 1872. The etymology of ^†saǧl itself is unknown; it may be from ^†saǧala ‘to pour out, spill; to throw down from above’, unless the latter is denom. from the former.
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▪ Historically attested related items include: ^†saǧl (pl. siǧāl, suǧūl) ‘bucket filled with water; hence also: share, portion; gift, present; bountiful man; great udder’. – Derived or perh. itself the etymon of ^†saǧl: ^†saǧala, u (saǧl), vb. I, ‘to pour out, spill (a liquid); jeter (bi‑ qc) de haut en bas’. – Deriv: ^†saǧǧala ‘to pour down (bi‑ a liquid)’; ^†saǧūl, adj., ‘tearful (eye); abundant (spring); abounding in milk (she-goat)’, ^†saǧīl ‘large, big (bucket, udder); share; hard’; – ^†ʔasǧala, vb. IV, ‘(1) denom.: to give a bucket-full, fill a vessel or watering-trough; to give much, make large (gifts); to be rich; (2) from vb. I, *‘to pour down, let flow’: to set loose (cattle), set free, leave (a beast with its mother), leave alone, forsake; to leave (an affair, li‑ to s.o.), make free\allowable (s.th. li‑ to s.o.); to make (the speech, language) unrestricted, speak absolutely’; ^†musǧal, adj. (PP IV), ‘pendant qu’on laisse pendre comme un seau; dont l’usage est permis à tous | allowable’; – ^†sawǧal, ^†sawǧalaẗ, ^†sāǧūl ‘flask-case | étui à flacon’
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▪ The expressional-ḥarb siǧāl ‘war has various chances’ is explained in BK1860 as ‘La guerre est comme des seaux, pour dire que les armes sont journalières, que l’on a tantôt le dessus, tantôt le dessous, comme des seaux dont l’un descend dans le puits pendant que l’autre remonte’.
▪ As the expression just quoted shows, the ‘buckets’ one has to imagine here are buckets let down in a well to draw water from it. If the corresponding vb. I, ^†saǧala, is not denom. from ^†saǧl (in which case ^†saǧl would be deverb. from ^†saǧala), then ‘bucket’ would be based on ‘to pour down, throw down’, a notion that looks similar to that associated with many items pertaining to ↗√RǦL, such as ↗^†RǦL_8 ^†raǧil~raǧal ‘set free with its mother (suckling)’, ↗²riǧl‘swarm (esp. of locusts)’, ↗^†RǦL_9 ^†raǧil~raǧl~raǧal ‘somewhat curly (hair)’, ↗raǧǧala ‘to let fall down (hair), to comb’.
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►sāǧala-hu l-ḥadīṯᵃ, to draw s.o. into a conversation, have a talk with s.o.

►siǧāl, n., contest, competition with alternate success: vn. III | kānat il-ḥarb bayna-hum siǧālᵃⁿ, expr., their battle had its ups and downs, they fought each other with alternate success: see above, section DISC.
►musāǧalaẗ, pl. -āt, 1a contest, competition; b discussion, talk: vn. III

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗siǧill (with musaǧǧil, musaǧǧal, etc.) as well as, for the whole picture, root entry ↗SǦL.

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