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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.

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