Quranic root
سحل
s · ḥ · l
The root centers on scraping or removing a surface, with related branches for emission or resonant sound and for making something proceed swiftly or continuously.
The concrete branch extends from scraping, filing, and abrading to filings, stripped surfaces, whitened cloth, and the shore understood as abraded by water. Other established branches concern braying or pouring forth, fluent continuity, and hastening or ready payment.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
سَاحِلٌ
sāḥilun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
The shore or bank of the sea.
In the Quranic expression بِالسَّاحِلِ, it denotes the sea-shore or water's edge.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:39word 10
“on the bank”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 20:39بِٱلسَّاحِلِon the bank
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 56 Classical meanings
سَحَلَ
To pare, peel, scrape, abrade, file, or otherwise remove an outer covering or surface; of wind, to strip the surface of the earth; of clothes, to wash them by beating off their soils.
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سَحَلَ
To strike someone a hundred lashes or strokes, figuratively as though paring off the skin.
A conventional figurative use of the surface-removal sense.
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سَحَلَ
To revile, blame, or speak evil of someone, including behind the person's back or in the person's absence.
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سَحَلَ
To bruise, bray, pound, or pulverize a thing.
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سَحَلَ
To smooth pieces of money; also, according to variant explanations, to pour them out or examine them in order to separate the good from the bad.
Used with coins or pieces of money.
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سَحَلَ
To pay money in ready cash.
Used in constructions meaning to pay someone a specified sum, or to pay a creditor a specified sum.
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سَحَلَ
To weave cloth from spun thread that is not formed of two twists, or to weave without twisting the warp into double-twisted threads.
This textile construction is distinct from the noun denoting an unplied garment, thread, or rope.
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سَحَلَ
To pour forth; of the sky, to pour down rain; of the eye, to pour forth tears or weep.
The sky and eye usages are conventional extensions of pouring forth liquid.
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سَحَلَ
Of an ass, to make a rolling sound in the chest or to bray.
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سَاحَلَ
To go or bring someone or something to the shore.
The Form III verb is used of coming to, or bringing a caravan to, the shore.
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سَاحَلَ
To contend, dispute, or litigate with someone.
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أَشْحَلَ
To find a person being reviled, blamed, or spoken about maliciously by others.
The construction presents the object as the person against whom such speech is directed.
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اِنْسَحَلَ
To become pared, peeled, scraped, abraded, or stripped of an outer covering or superficial part.
It may be said of the surface of the earth when wind strips away what is upon it.
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اِنْسَحَلَ
Of pieces of money, to become smooth.
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اِنْسَحَلَ
To pour forth, or to become poured forth.
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اِنْسَحَلَ
Of a she-camel, to be or become quick and swift in going.
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اِنْسَحَلَ
Of an orator, to run on in speech fluently, diffusely, and without pause or hesitation.
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سَحْلٌ
A white garment or piece of cloth, especially a white cotton garment associated with Yemen.
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سَحْلٌ
A garment, thread, or rope made with a single yarn or strand rather than two twists.
The terminology contrasts with a material made from two twists or two strands.
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سَحْلٌ
Ready money or cash.
An infinitive used substantively.
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سَحُولٌ
A person who beats, washes, and whitens clothes.
- Lane · entry 40468
سَحِيلٌ
The rolling sound in an ass's chest or the vehement braying of a wild ass.
The noun denotes the sound rather than the act of braying.
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سُحَالَةٌ
Filings or scrapings, especially filings of gold, silver, or another substance, and the husks or particles stripped from grains in pounding or braying.
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سُحَالَةٌ
The refuse or lowest, basest, or meanest portion of a people or party.
A figurative collective use derived from discarded scrapings or husks.
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سَحُولِيَّةٌ
A white cotton garment or cloth associated with سَحُول, a place in Yemen, or described as beaten, washed, and whitened.
A nisbah or related designation; variant vocalizations are reported in the lexical tradition.
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سَاحِلٌ
The bank of a great river, the cultivated tract adjoining a sea or great river, or the side of a valley.
These are broader Classical extensions of the shore or water-edge noun beyond the Quranic sea-shore use.
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إِسْحِلٌ
A tree resembling tamarisk, growing in soft or plain tracts and used for its twigs as tooth-cleaning sticks.
- Lane · entry 40473
أَسَاحِلُ
Water-courses or places in which water flows.
A plural form whose singular is not specified in the cited entry.
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مِسْحَلٌ
An implement for cutting, hewing, or paring wood; a file.
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مِسْحَلٌ
The tongue, especially a ready, eloquent, or fluent tongue; by extension, an orator or good speaker.
The speaker usage emphasizes speech that scarcely stops.
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مِسْحَلٌ
A person skilled in reading or reciting the Quran.
A conventional designation connected with continuous or fluent recitation.
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مِسْحَلٌ
Copious rain.
A noun associated with pouring forth.
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مِسْحَلٌ
A water-spout whose forceful outflow cannot readily be resisted.
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مِسْحَلٌ
The mouth of a leather water-bag.
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مِسْحَلٌ
A brisk or lively waterer or cup-bearer.
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مِسْحَلٌ
Extreme in bounty or munificence.
An adjectival use describing a person.
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مِسْحَلٌ
A courageous man who acts, charges, or attacks alone.
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مِسْحَلٌ
A flogger who inflicts punishments prescribed by law before or in the presence of the Sultan.
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مِسْحَلٌ
A component of a bridle or bit, including the iron fitting or paired rings at the ends of the bit-mouth.
The exact fitting varies across technical descriptions of the bridle.
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مِسْحَلٌ
Error or waywardness.
Used in the idiom of following or entering into one's error.
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مِسْحَلٌ
Decisive resolution or determination, together with energetic exertion in an affair.
Used in idioms describing a person's resolve and determined effort.
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مِسْحَلٌ
Energetic continuation in discourse, a sermon, speech, or poetry.
The idiomatic use describes proceeding forcefully and continuously in verbal composition.
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مِسْحَلٌ
The side or lower part of the beard, the place of the sideburn, the temple, or the side of the cheek.
The dual form may denote the corresponding two sides.
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مِسْحَلٌ
A clean, thin cotton garment or piece of cloth.
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مِسْحَلٌ
A rope, string, or thread twisted by itself as a single strand.
A strand made with another strand is classified differently in the cited textile terminology.
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مِسْحَلٌ
A sieve.
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مِسْحَلٌ
The wild ass; also an active or brisk ass.
The epithet is associated with the animal's braying and energetic movement.
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مِسْحَلٌ
A low, vile, mean, or sordid man.
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مِسْحَلٌ
A devil.
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مِسْحَلٌ
The name of the familiar jinni or genie associated with the poet al-Aʿshā.
A proper-name usage rather than a general lexical designation.
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مُسَحَّلَةٌ
A ball of spun thread.
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مَسْحُولٌ
A road, understood as abraded by the feet of people and beasts.
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مَسْحُولٌ
An even, wide place.
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مَسْحُولٌ
A small and contemptible man.
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مَسْحُولٌ
The name of a camel belonging to the poet al-ʿAjjāj.
A proper-name usage.
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سَحَلَ
To perform a reading or recitation in consecutive portions, continuously.
Applied to recitation; the associated verbal noun سَحْلٌ denotes making a thing consecutive in its parts or portions.
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Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The packet's integrity metadata reports 68 Lane primary source_units, but the enumerated source_units contain 67 distinct unit_ids; no additional unit_id can be reconstructed without inventing evidence.
The Lane citation for the skilled Quran-reciter meaning is preserved as a Classical lexical meaning; no modern Quran location is inferred from Lane's citation conventions.