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▪ eC7 (‘chain’) Q 69:32 ṯumma fī silsilatin ḏarʕu-hā sabʕūna ḏirāʕan ‘And then [insert him] in a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits’; Q 76:4 ʔinnā ʔaʕtadnā li-l-kāfirīna salāsila wa-ʔaġlālan wa-saʕīran ‘Lo! We have prepared for disbelievers manacles and carcans and a raging fire’
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▪ (Jeffery1938:) Akk šaršarratu (?), Aram ŠLŠLTā, Syr šīšLTā, Gz sənsəl, lHbr šalšäläṯ, possibly also in Safaite.
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▪ Jeffery1938: »It is used only in connection with descriptions of the torments of hell and may be a technical term in Muḥammad’s eschatological vocabulary, borrowed in all probability from one of the Book religions. – In any case it cannot be easily explained from an Ar root, and Guidi, Della Sede, 581, already suspected it as non-Arabic. – Fraenkel, Fremdw, 290,¹ relates it to the Aram ŠLŠLTā, Syr šīšLTā,² which is the origin of the Eth [Gz] sənsəl (Nöldeke, Neue Beiträge, 42), and possibly of the late Hbr šalšäläṯ.³ The borrowing from Aram would doubtless have been early, and it is possible that we find the word in Safaite (cf. Ryckmans, Noms propres, 151).«
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1. See also p. 76 and Schwally, Idioticon, 94; Schulthess, Lex, 209. 2. Zimmern, Akkad. Fremdw, 35, carries this itself back to Akk šaršarratu. 3. Also of the Arm šłtʽay, Hübschmann, Arm. Gramm, i, 314.

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silsilaẗ ǧibāl, mountain chain;
silsilaẗ al-ẓahr, or silsilaẗ faqriyyaẗ, backbone, vertebral column;
silsilaẗ ʔakāḏīb, fabric of lies;
silsilaẗ al-nasab, lineage, line of ancestors

►salsala, vb. I, 1a to link together, concatenate, interlink, interlook, connect, unite (bi‑ with); b to chain up, enchain, fetter, shackle (s.o.); 2 ↗tasalsala | salsalahū ʔilà, to trace s.o.’s lineage back to s.o.
►tasalsala, vb. II, 1 ↗tasalsala; 2a to form a chain or series, be continuous; b to be interlinked, interlocked, linked together, concatenate: prob. denom.

►tasalsul, n., sequence, succession: vn. II., denom.(?) | bi’l-tasalsul, adv., without interruption, successively, consecutively, continuously; našarahū bi-tasalsul, to serialize s.th., publish s.th. in serial form
►musalsal, adj., 1 chained; 2 continuous (numbering); ^BP#17043 n., serial show, soap opera: PP I. | radd fiʕl musalsal, n., chain reaction (phys.); al-marʔaẗ al-musalsalaẗ, Andromeda (astron.)
►mutasalsil, adj., continuous (numbering): PA II.

For other values of the root, cf. ↗tasalsala as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√SLSL.

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