س ل م

س ل م

See also: سلم‎

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *š-l-m. Cognate with Hebrew ש־ל־ם‎.

Root

س ل م • (s-l-m)

1. related to safety, security; peace; submission; surrender

Derived terms

• Form I: سَلِمَ‎ (salima, “to be safe and sound, be blameless, be clearly proven, be free, escape”)
  • Verbal noun: سَلَامَة‎ (salāma), سَلَام‎ ( salām)
  • Active participle: سَالِم‎ (sālim)
  • Passive participle: مَسْلُوم‎ (maslūm)
• Form II: سَلَّمَ‎ (sallama, “to preserve, hand over intact, surrender, submit, greet, grant salvation, admit, consent”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسْلِيم‎ (taslīm)
  • Active participle: مُسَلِّم‎ (musallim)
  • Passive participle: مُسَلَّم‎ (musallam)
• Form III: سَالَمَ‎ (sālama, “to keep or make peace”)
  • Verbal noun: مُسَالَمَة‎ (musālama), سِلَام‎ (silām)
  • Active participle: مُسَالِم‎ (musālim)
  • Passive participle: مُسَالَم‎ (musālam)
• Form IV: أَسْلَمَ‎ (ʾaslama, “to desert, let fall, hand over, abandon, surrender, resign oneself, become Muslim”)
  • Verbal noun: إِسْلَام‎ (ʾislām)
  • Active participle: مُسْلِم‎ (muslim)
  • Passive participle: مُسْلَم‎ (muslam)
• Form V: تَسَلَّمَ‎ (tasallama, “to get, to have handed over, to take over”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَلُّم‎ (tasallum)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَلِّم‎ (mutasallim)
  • Passive participle: مُتَسَلَّم‎ (mutasallam)
• Form VI: تَسَالَمَ‎ (tasālama, “to make peace with each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَالُم‎ (tasālum)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَالِم‎ (mutasālim)
  • Passive participle: مُتَسَالَم‎ (mutasālam)
• Form VIII: اِسْتَلَمَ‎ (istalama, “to touch, receive, take possession of”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِلَام‎ (istilām)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَلِم‎ (mustalim)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَلَم‎ (mustalam)
• Form X: اِسْتَسْلَمَ‎ (istaslama, “to surrender, submit, succumb”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِسْلَام‎ (istislām)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَسْلِم‎ (mustaslim)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَسْلَم‎ (mustaslam)
• Form IIq: تَأَسْلَمَ‎ (taʾaslama)
  • Verbal noun: تَأَسْلُم‎ (taʾaslum)
  • Active participle: مُتَأَسْلِم‎ (mutaʾaslim)
• سَلْم‎ (salm, “peace”)
• سِلْم‎ (silm, “peace”)
  • سِلْمِيّ‎ (silmiyy, “peaceful”)
• سَلَام‎ (salām, “peace”)
• سَلِيم‎ (salīm, “safe”), سُلَمَاء‎ (sulamāʾ)
• أَسْلَم‎ (ʾaslam, “safer”)
• الْإِسْلَام‎ (al-ʾislām, “Islam”)
• مُسْلِم‎ (muslim, “Muslim”)
• سَلِم‎ (salim) and سِلَام‎ (silām, “stones”)
• سَلَم‎ (salam, “Acacia ehrenbergiana”)
• سَلَم‎ (salam, “captives”)
• سَلَم‎ (salam, “futures contract”)

See also

• Š-L-M on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “س ل م”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 677–679
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “س ل م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 346–348
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “س ل م”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1129–1132
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “س ل م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1412–1417
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “س ل م”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 495-497

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South Levantine Arabic

Root

س ل م

1. Related to submission and surrender
2. Related to peace, safety and wellbeing

Derived terms

Verbs and verb forms

• Form II: سلّم‎ (sallam, “to greet; to submit, hand in”)
• Form IV: أسلم‎ (ʔaslam, “to convert to Islam”)
  • Noun Form: إسلام‎ (ʔislām, “Islam”)
  • Active Participle: مسلم‎ (muslim, “Muslim”)
• Form X: استسلم‎ (istaslam, “to surrender, give up”)
  • Noun Form: استسلام‎ (istislām, “surrender”)

Nouns

• سلام‎ (salām, “peace”)
• سلامة‎ (salāme, “safety, wellbeing”)

Adjectives

• سليم‎ (salīm, “healthy”)