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سلمPer Ibn Fāris, the great majority of this chapter concerns ṣiḥḥa wa-ʿāfiya — soundness, … (root slm)

السين واللام والميم معظم بابه من الصحة والعافية ويكون فيه ما يشذ والشاذ عنه قليل فالسلامة أن يسلم الإنسان من العاهة …

Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha · English rendering

سلم
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53 words8 verbs7 verbal nouns5 participles1 place or instrument4 intensives and elatives16 other nouns10 plurals2 relatives and abstracts

  • سَلَامgramm
  • سَلَّمَhe made him to be safe, secure, or free
  • مُسْلِمMuslim
  • أَسْلَمَhand over; surrender
  • مُسْلِمُونplural of Muslim
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Verbs8سَلِمَ · سَلَّمَ · أَسْلَمَ

The root as an action: the bare Form I, and the Forms made by adding letters before, inside or after the root.grammar →

Form I vowels: فَعِلَ يَفْعَلُ (i – a; the imperfect from Lane's “aor.”)

Verbal nouns7تَسْلِيم · سَلَامَة · سَلْم

The action itself, named as a noun (maṣdar).grammar →

Participles5مُسْلِم · مُسَلَّم · سَالِم

The one who does it, and the one it is done to.grammar →

  • مُسْلِمMuslimautoactive, Form IVQurʾān ×39library ×6Lane
  • مُسَلَّمgranted; obviousautopassive, Form IVlibrary ×4
  • سَالِمsecure; soundautoactive, Form Ilibrary ×1Lane
  • مَسْلُومpassive, Form ILane
  • مُسْتَلَمpassive, Form VIIILane
Place, time and instrument1مَسْلَمَة

Where or when it happens, and what it is done with: the m- nouns.grammar →

  • مَسْلَمَةnoun of place (with -a)Lane
Intensives, qualities and the elative4أَسْلَم · سَلِيم · سَلَمَان

The quality carried far, held as a trait, or compared.grammar →

  • أَسْلَمmore, and most, safe or secure or free from evils of any kindLaneelative or colour adjective (afʿal)library ×6LaneIbn Fāris
  • سَلِيمsafeautoquality (faʿīl)Qurʾān ×2library ×2LaneIbn Fāris
  • سَلَمَانintensive (faʿlān)Lane
  • سَلْمَانselmán is of us, the people of the houseLaneintensive (faʿlān)Lane
Other nouns16سَلَام · سَلَم · سُلَّم

Nouns on other patterns; their meaning is learned word by word.grammar →

Plurals10مُسْلِمُون · مُسْلِمَات · أَسْلَام

Broken plurals rebuild the word on a new pattern; sound plurals add an ending.grammar →

  • مُسْلِمُونplural of Muslimfrom the singularsound plural of مُسْلِمQurʾān ×14
  • مُسْلِمَاتsound plural of مُسْلِمَةQurʾān ×2
  • أَسْلَامbroken plural of سَلَمLaneIbn Fāris
  • سَالِمُونsound plural of سَالِمQurʾān ×1
Relative and abstract2سِلْمِيّ · إِسْلَامِيّ

-iyy relates a thing to its source; -iyya makes an abstract noun.grammar →

  • سِلْمِيّpeaceful; pacifistautorelative adjective (-iyy)library ×10
  • إِسْلَامِيّrelative adjective (-iyy)Lane
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مَفْعَلَةس ل ممَسْلَمَة
  • Attested: مَسْلَمَة, noun of place (with -a) (Lane)

Place noun with -a. The place noun with the feminine -a. Sometimes it is only a variant of mafʿal; often it names the place where a thing is found in abundance (maʾsada, 'a place full of lions'). So maktab is the place of writing, and maktaba, where writings are gathered: a library, a bookshop. Our summary

But: maktaba is not in our classical dictionaries for k-t-b: Lane and al-Jawharī give maktab ('a school'), none gives maktaba. Its sense of 'library, bookshop' fits the pattern of abundance, but that is our reading of the pattern, not a classical entry. Many mafʿala words are single items of usage (maqbara 'cemetery'), which the grammarians call heard, not formed by rule.

The grammarians on this pattern (4)
  • ما يكون مفعلة لازمة لها الهاء والفتحة … وذلك إذا أردت أن تكثر الشيء بالمكان، وذلك قولك: أرض مسبعة، ومأسدة

    Chapter on what is mafʿala, with the -a and the a-vowel always: that is when you mean that a thing abounds in a place, as you say 'a land of many beasts of prey (masbaʿa), of many lions (maʾsada)'

    Sībawayh (d. c. 180/796), al-Kitāb, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām Hārūn, 3rd ed. (Cairo: al-Khānjī, 1988), 4:94 · OpenITI line 21027–21028 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • و نحو المظنة و المقبرة فتحا و ضما ليس بقياس

    and words like maẓinna and maqbara (with a or u) are not by rule

    Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249), al-Shāfiya fī ʿilm al-taṣrīf, ed. Ḥasan Aḥmad al-ʿUthmān (Mecca: al-Maktaba al-Makkiyya, 1995), 1:30 · OpenITI line 223 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • “designate the place where the object signified by the noun from which they are formed, is found in large numbers or quantities” Wright, Grammar I, §247, p. 148 ↗ · on nouns of abundance, maf'ala · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
  • “Nouns of time and place not unfrequently take the feminine form” Wright, Grammar I, §225, p. 128 ↗ · on maf'ala as a variant of maf'al · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
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Attested means found in our data: the Quranic Arabic Corpus (lemmas, verb Forms, participles, verbal nouns, plurals), the library's words (automatic analysis), Lane's Lexicon (his headwords, the Forms he numbers, the verbal nouns and plurals he names) and Ibn Fāris's entry. Nothing is generated for this list. Meanings are Lane's first gloss in his entry, or else the analyser's gloss (“auto”). Vowelling follows the corpus, then Lane, then the analyser; verbs are given in the regular perfect. Lane's Lexicon thins out after qāf, and a few of his entries cover several roots at once: those roots show no Lane. The patterns, written with ف ع ل, are computed by us.

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  • al-Khalīl · 170Al-silm (السلم): an elongated bucket with a single handle, plural salām (سلام), as in the verse: 'a bucket (silm) by which you see the one hauling it up tilted (azwar)' [poetry fragment, verse no.

    al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn. The first Arabic dictionary, arranged by permutations of the root letters.

    Al-silm (السلم): an elongated bucket with a single handle, plural salām (سلام), as in the verse: 'a bucket (silm) by which you see the one hauling it up tilted (azwar)' [poetry fragment, verse no. 261]. Al-salm (السلم): the bite of a snake; the one bitten is called maslūm (مسلوم) and salīm (سليم), so named by way of a good omen [away from the term 'bitten'], for it is said 'God has kept him safe (sallamahu Allāh).' A man is salīm meaning sālim (سالم, 'safe/sound'); one says sallama, salāmah. Al-salām (السلام): stones — I have not heard a singular form of it, nor have I heard anyone use it in the singular; sometimes it is treated as feminine with a collective sense, and sometimes as masculine; it is also said that its singular is salamah (سلمة), as in the verse: 'in the era of al-Faṭḥal, when the stones (al-salām) were moist' [verse no. 262]. Al-salām is also a kind of small shrub/tree. Al-salām may also mean salāmah (soundness/safety). The people's saying 'al-salāmu ʿalaykum' (السلام عليكم) means: safety (al-salāmah) from God be upon you. It is also said to be one of the names of God, and it is said that al-Salām is God Himself, so that when one says 'al-salāmu ʿalaykum,' it is as if saying: God is above you [watching over you]. Al-salāmā (السلامى): the bones of the fingers, the finger-joints (al-ashājiʿ), and the extremities (al-akāriʿ) — they are joints like vertebrae, plural salāmiyyāt (سلاميات). It is said that the last place where marrow remains [in the body] is in the salāmā and in the eye. Al-salam (السلم): a kind of tree, singular with tāʾ marbūṭah; its leaves are al-qaraẓ (القرظ) [used for tanning], and that which is tanned with qaraẓ is called maqrūẓ (مقروظ), while that tanned with the bark of salam is called maslūm (مسلوم). Al-Islām (الإسلام): submission (al-istislām) to the command of God Most High, that is, compliance with obedience to Him and acceptance of His command. Al-istilām (الاستلام) of the [Black] Stone: taking hold of it with the hand, or with a kiss, and wiping it with the palm. One says 'akhadhahu salaman' (أخذه سلما), meaning he took him captive. Al-salam (السلم) is that with which one makes an advance purchase. Concerning His saying, mighty is His name: 'Or do they have a stairway (sullam) by which they listen?' [Qurʾān 52:38] — it is said this is al-silm/al-sullam, meaning the means and the ladder, plural salālīm (سلاليم). Al-silm (السلم): the opposite of war; it is said that al-silm and al-salm are one and the same.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    السلم: دلو مستطيل له عروة واحدة، وجمعه: سلام، قال: سلم ترى الدالح منه أزورا «261» والسلم: لدغ الحية. والملدوغ يقال له: مسلوم، وسليم. وسمي به تطيرا [من اللديغ] ، لأنه يقال: سلمه الله. ورجل سليم، أي: سالم، وقد سلم سلامة. والسلام: الحجارة، لم أسمع واحدها، ولا سمعت أحدا يفردها، وربما أنث على معنى الجماعة، وربما ذكر، وقيل: واحدته: سلمة، قال: زمن الفطحل إذ السلام رطاب «262» والسلام: ضرب من دق الشجر. والسلام يكون بمعنى السلامة. وقول الناس: السلام عليكم، أي: السلامة من الله عليكم. وقيل: هو اسم من أسماء الله، وقيل: السلام هو الله، فإذا قيل: السلام عليكم [فكأنه] يقول: الله فوقكم. والسلامى: عظام الأصابع والأشاجع والأكارع، وهي كعابر كأنها كعاب، والجميع: السلاميات. ويقال [إن] آخر ما يبقى [فيه] المخ.. في السلامى وفي العين. والسلم: ضرب من الشجر، الواحدة بالهاء، وورقه: القرظ، [يدبغ به، ويقال] للمدبوغ بالقرظ: مقروظ، وبقشر السلم: مسلوم. والإسلام: الاستسلام لأمر الله تعالى، وهو الانقياد لطاعته، والقبول لأمره. والاستلام للحجر: تناوله باليد، وبالقبلة، ومسحه بالكف. ويقال: أخذه سلما، أي: أسره. والسلم: ما أسلفت به. وقوله عز اسمه: أم لهم سلم يستمعون فيه «263» . يقال: هي السلم، وهو السلم، أي: السبب والمرقاة، والجميع: السلاليم. والسلم: ضد الحرب، ويقال: السلم والسلم واحد.

  • al-Jawharī · 393Abū ʿAmr said: al-silm (السلم) is a bucket with a single handle, like the bucket of water-carriers.

    al-Jawharī (d. c. 393/1003), al-Ṣiḥāḥ. Admits only usage he judged sound.

    Abū ʿAmr said: al-silm (السلم) is a bucket with a single handle, like the bucket of water-carriers. Salm (سلم) is a man's name. Salmā (سلمى) is a woman's name. Salmā is [the name of] one of the two mountains of Ṭayyiʾ. Salmā is also a clan of Dārim, as the poet says: 'She reproaches me with [the name] Salmā, though there is no dishonor in it — / had you been of Salmā's stock, you'd have branched off from Dārim.' Among Banū Qushayr there are two [groups called] Salamah: Salamah ibn Qushayr, known as Salamat al-Sharr ('Salamah of Evil'), whose mother was Lubaynā bint Kaʿb ibn Kilāb; and Salamah ibn Qushayr, known as Salamat al-Khayr ('Salamah of Good'), who is the son of al-Qasriyyah. Sulaym (سليم) is a tribe of Qays ʿAylān, namely Sulaym ibn Manṣūr ibn ʿIkrimah ibn Khaṣafah ibn Qays ʿAylān. Sulaym is also a tribe within Judhām of Yemen. Abū Salmā, with ḍammah on the sīn, is the father of Zuhayr ibn Abī Salmā al-Muzanī the poet, and there is no other such name among the Arabs; his [Abū Salmā's] actual name was Rabīʿah ibn Rabāḥ, of Banū Māzin, of Muzaynah. Salmān (سلمان) is the name of a mountain and of a man. Sālim (سالم) is a man's name. Al-salam (السلم), with fatḥah on the sīn and lām, means al-salaf (السلف, advance payment). Al-silm also means submission (al-istislām). Al-salam is also a thorny tree (min al-ʿiḍāh), singular salamah (سلمة). Salamah is a man's name, and Salimah, with kasrah on the lām, is also a man's name. Banū Salimah is a clan of the Anṣār, and there is no other Salimah among the Arabs besides them. Al-salamah is also the singular of al-salām (السلام), meaning stones, as in the verse: 'That is my friend, and there is one who reproaches me, / who is struck, on my behalf, by the arrow and the stone (al-salamah)' — meaning bi-l-sahmi wa-l-salamah, which is a dialectal form used by Ḥimyar. Al-sullam (السلم) is [the word for] the rungs one climbs upon [ladder], and sometimes the stirrup (al-ghurz) is called by this name, as Abū al-Rabīs al-Taghlibī says describing his she-camel: 'She whose back, when the leg is bent, / [is mounted] by means of a stirrup (sullam) in a resting place, when its rider hurries.' Salām and Salāmah (with tashdīd) are among people's names. Al-silm, with kasrah, means al-salām (greeting/peace), as in the verse: 'We halted and said: Well then, peace (silm)! And she returned the greeting, / and there was nothing but a gesture with the eyebrows.' Abū ʿAmr read [the Qurʾānic verse] 'udkhulū fī al-silmi kāffah' (enter into peace/submission wholly) taking its meaning to be al-Islām. Al-silm means reconciliation (al-ṣulḥ), read with both fatḥah and kasrah, and it may be treated as masculine or feminine. Al-silm also means one who is at peace with another (al-musālim); one says 'anā silmun li-man sālamanī' (I am at peace with whoever makes peace with me). Al-salām means al-salāmah (soundness). Al-salām means al-istislām (submission). Al-salām is a noun derived from al-taslīm. Al-Salām is one of the names of God Most High. Al-salām and al-salām (variant) are also [names of] a tree, as Bishr says: 'in Ṣāḥah amid its enclaves the salām-trees,' the singular being salāmah. Al-salām means freedom from faults, as in the saying of Umayyah. And it is read [in the Qurʾān]: 'wa-rajulan salaman' (a man wholly devoted/belonging) [Qurʾān 39:29]. [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    أبو عمرو: السلم: الدلو لها عروة واحدة (2) ، نحو دلو السقائين. وسلم: اسم رجل. وسلمى: اسم امرأة. وسلمى: أحد جبلى طيئ. وسلمى: حى من دارم. وقال: تعيرني سلمى وليس بقضأة ولو كنت من سلمى تفرعت دارما وفي بنى قشير سلمتان: سلمة بن قشير، وهو سلمة الشر، وأمه لبينى (1) بنت كعب ابن كلاب، وسلمة بن قشير، وهو سلمة الخير. وهو ابن القسرية (2) . وسليم: قبيلة من قيس عيلان، وهو سليم ابن منصور بن عكرمة بن خصفة بن قيس عيلان. وسليم أيضا: قبيلة في جذام من اليمن. وأبو سلمى، بضم السين: والد زهير بن أبى سلمى المزني الشاعر، وليس في العرب غيره، واسمه ربيعة بن رباح من بنى مازن، من مزينة. وسلمان: اسم جبل، واسم رجل. وسالم: اسم رجل. والسلم، بالتحريك: السلف. والسلم: الاستسلام. والسلم أيضا: شجر من العضاه، الواحدة سلمة. وسلمة: اسم رجل: وسلمة، بكسر اللام أيضا: اسم رجل. وبنو سلمة: بطن من الانصار، وليس في العرب سلمة غيرهم. والسلمة أيضا: واحدة السلام، وهى الحجارة. وقال (1) : ذاك خليلي وذو يعاتبني يرمى ورائي بامسهم وامسلمه يريد بالسهم والسلمة، وهى لغة لحمير. والسلم: واحد السلاليم التي يرتقى عليها، وربما سمى الغرز بذلك. قال أبو الربيس التغلبي يصف ناقته: مطارة قلب إن ثنى الرجل ربها بسلم غرز في مناخ تعاجله (2) وسلام وسلامة بالتشديد، من أسماء الناس. والسلم بالكسر: السلام. وقال: وقفنا فقلنا إيه سلم فسلمت فما كان إلا ومؤها بالحواجب (3) وقرأ أبو عمرو: (ادخلوا في السلم كافة) يذهب بمعناها إلى الاسلام. والسلم: الصلح، يفتح ويكسر، ويذكر ويؤنث. والسلم: المسالم. تقول: أنا سلم لمن سالمني. والسلام: السلامة. والسلام: الاستسلام. والسلام: الاسم من التسليم. والسلام: اسم من أسماء الله تعالى. والسلام والسلام أيضا: شجر. قال بشر: بصاحة في أسرتها السلام (1) * الواحدة سلامة. والسلام: البراءة من العيوب في قول أمية (2) . وقرئ: (ورجلا سلما) . والسلامان أيضا: شجر. والسلاميات: عظام الأصابع. قال أبو عبيد: السلامى في الأصل عظم يكون في فرسن البعير. ويقال: إن آخر ما يبقى فيه المخ من البعير إذا عجف السلامى والعين، فإذا ذهب منهما لم يكن له بقية بعد. قال الراجز (3) . لا يشتكين عملا ما أنقين مادام مخ في سلامى أو عين واحده وجمعه سواء، وقد جمع على سلاميات. ويقال للجلدة التي بين العين والأنف: سالم. وقال عبد الله بن عمر رضي الله عنهما في ابنه سالم: يديرونني عن سالم وأريغه وجلدة بين العين والأنف سالم وهذا المعنى أراد عبد الملك في جوابه عن كتاب الحجاج: " أنت عندي كسالم ". والسلام والسليم: اللديغ، كأنهم تفاءلوا له بالسلامة. ويقال: أسلم لما به. وقلب سليم، أي سالم. قال ابن السكيت: تقول لا بذي تسلم ما كان كذا وكذا. وتثني: لا بذي تسلمان، وللجماعة: لا بذى تسلمون، وللمؤنث: لا بذي تسلمين، وللجميع: لا بذي تسلمن. قال: والتأويل لا والله الذي يسلمك ما كان كذا وكذا. ويقال: لا وسلامتك ما كان كذا. ويقال: اذهب بذى تسلم يافتى، واذهبا بذي تسلمان، أي اذهب بسلامتك. قال الاخفش: وقوله ذى مضاف إلى تسلم. وكذلك قول الشاعر (1) بآية يقدمون الخيل زورا كأن على سنابكها مداما أضاف آية إلى يقدمون، وهما نادران لانه ليس شي من الاسماء يضاف إلى الفعل غير أسماء الزمان، كقولك هذا يوم يفعل، أي يفعل فيه. وتقول: سلم فلان من الآفات سلامة، وسلمه الله سبحانه منها. وسلمت إليه الشئ فتسلمه، أي أخذه. والتسليم: بذل الرضا بالحكم. والستليم: السلام. وأسلم الرجل في الطعام، أي أسلف فيه. وأسلم أمره إلى الله، أي سلم. وأسلم، أي دخل في السلم، وهو الاستسلام. وأسلم من الإسلام. وأسلمه، أي خذل …

  • Ibn Fāris · 395Sīn, lām, and mīm: the greater part of this root's meanings pertain to soundness and well-being (al-ṣiḥḥah wa-l-ʿāfiyah), though there are some exceptional forms, and what deviates from this is rare.

    Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004), Maqāyīs al-Lugha. Seeks each root's original sense (aṣl).

    Sīn, lām, and mīm: the greater part of this root's meanings pertain to soundness and well-being (al-ṣiḥḥah wa-l-ʿāfiyah), though there are some exceptional forms, and what deviates from this is rare. Salāmah (السلامة, 'soundness/safety') means that a person is free (yaslamu) from defect and harm. The scholars say: God, exalted be His praise, is al-Salām (السلام) because of His freedom from whatever afflicts created beings in the way of fault, deficiency, and perishing. God, majestic is His glory, said: 'And God calls to the Abode of Peace' (Dār al-Salām, دار السلام). Al-Salām here is God Himself, and His Abode is Paradise. Also from this root is al-Islām (الإسلام), which is submission (al-inqiyād), because one thereby becomes free (yaslamu) from refusal and resistance. Al-Salām (السلام) also means mutual peace-making (al-musālamah); the pattern fiʿāl (فعال) often comes in the sense of mutual action (mufāʿalah), like qitāl/muqātalah (fighting). Also belonging to the sense of 'accompanying and submitting' is al-salam (السلم), which is called al-salaf (السلف, advance payment), as if it were wealth 'given up' (aslama) and not withheld from being handed over. It is also possible that stones are called salām (سلام) because they are the furthest thing on earth from perishing and vanishing, due to their hardness and solidity. As for al-salīm (السليم), meaning one bitten by a snake, there are two views on why it is so named: one, that he is 'consigned' (aslama) to what has befallen him; the other, that people used this as an omen of good, wishing him safety (salāmah) — for the Arabs sometimes name things by way of good or ill omen. Al-silm (السلم) [a ladder/means of ascent] is well known, and it too derives from salāmah, because one who descends by it may hope for safety. Al-salāmah (السلامة) is also a type of tree, plural salām (سلام). What deviates from the root's pattern is al-silm (السلم), meaning a bucket with a single handle, and al-salam (السلم), a type of tree, singular salamah (سلمة); and al-salamān (السلامان), also a tree. Belonging to the first sense is al-silm (السلم), meaning peace/reconciliation (al-ṣulḥ), which may be treated as feminine or masculine; God Most High said: 'And if they incline to peace, incline to it as well' (wa-in janaḥū li-l-silmi fa-jnaḥ lahā). Al-salamah (السلمة) means 'stone,' as the poet says: — 'That is my friend, and there is one who reproaches me, / who is struck, on my behalf, by the arrow and the stone.' [yurmā warāʾī bi-l-sahmi wa-l-salamah] Banū Salamah (بنو سلمة) is a clan of the Anṣār; there is no other tribe among the Arabs called this. Among personal names: Salmā (سلمى), a woman's name; Salmā, a mountain; and Abū Salmā (أبو سلمى), the father of Zuhayr, with the sīn vowelled with ḍammah — there is no other such name among the Arabs.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    السين واللام والميم معظم بابه من الصحة والعافية ويكون فيه ما يشذ والشاذ عنه قليل فالسلامة أن يسلم الإنسان من العاهة والأذى قال أهل العلم الله جل ثناؤه هو السلام لسلامته مما يلحق المخلوقين من العيب والنقص والفناء قال الله جل جلاله ﴿ والله يدعو إلى دار السلام ﴾ فالسلام الله جل ثناؤه وداره الجنة ومن الباب أيضا الإسلام وهو الانقياد لأنه يسلم من الإباء والامتناع والسلام المسالمة وفعال تجىء في المفاعلة كثيرا نحو القتال والمقاتلة ومن باب الإصحاب والانقياد السلم الذي يسمى السلف كأنه مال أسلم ولم يمتنع من إعطائه وممكن أن تكون الحجارة سميت سلاما لأنها أبعد شيء في الأرض من الفناء والذهاب لشدتها وصلابتها فأما السليم وهو اللديغ ففي تسميته قولان أحدهما أنه أسلم لما به والقول الآخر أنهم تفاءلوا بالسلامة وقد يسمون الشيء بأسماء في التفاؤل والتطير والسلم معروف وهو من السلامة أيضا لأن النازل عليه يرجى له السلامة والسلامة شجر وجمعها سلام والذي شذ عن الباب السلم الدلو التي لها عروة واحدة والسلم شجر واحدته سلمة والسلامان شجر ومن الباب الأول السلم وهو الصلح وقد يؤنث ويذكر قال الله تعالى ﴿ وإن جنحوا للسلم فاجنح لها ﴾ والسلمة الحجر فيه يقول الشاعر — ذاك خليلي وذو يعاتبني … يرمى ورائي بالسهم والسلمة … وبنو سلمة بطن من الأنصار ليس في العرب غيرهم ومن الأسماء سلمى امرأة وسلمى جبل وأبو سلمى أبو زهير بضم السين ليس في العرب غيره

  • al-Rāghib · 502Al-silm (السلم) and al-salāmah (السلامة): freedom from afflictions, both outward and inward, as in [the Qurʾānic phrase]: 'with a sound heart' (bi-qalbin salīm) [Qurʾān 26:89], meaning free from corruption/malady — this

    al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 502/1108), al-Mufradāt. Quranic vocabulary, from core sense to Quranic usage.

    Al-silm (السلم) and al-salāmah (السلامة): freedom from afflictions, both outward and inward, as in [the Qurʾānic phrase]: 'with a sound heart' (bi-qalbin salīm) [Qurʾān 26:89], meaning free from corruption/malady — this pertains to the inward. And He, Most High, said: 'a spotless [cow], having no blemish in it' (musallamah lā shiyata fīhā) [Qurʾān 2:71], which pertains to the outward. One says sallama yaslamu salāmatan wa-salāman, and 'sallamahu Allāh' (God kept him safe). God Most High said: 'but God saved [you]' (wa-lākinna Allāha sallama) [Qurʾān 8:43], and He said: 'enter it in peace, secure' (udkhulūhā bi-salāmin āminīn) [Qurʾān 15:46], meaning... [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    السلم والسلامة: التعري من الآفات الظاهرة والباطنة، قال: بقلب سليم [الشعراء/ 89] ، أي: متعر من الدغل، فهذا في الباطن، وقال تعالى: مسلمة لا شية فيها [البقرة/ 71] ، فهذا في الظاهر، وقد سلم يسلم سلامة، وسلاما، وسلمه الله، قال تعالى: ولكن الله سلم [الأنفال/ 43] ، وقال: ادخلوها بسلام آمنين [الحجر/ 46] ، أي:

  • Lisān · 711Al-salām (السلام) and al-salāmah (السلامة): freedom/innocence [from fault].

    Ibn Manẓūr (d. 711/1311), Lisān al-ʿArab. The great compendium of the earlier dictionaries (entry shortened).

    Al-salām (السلام) and al-salāmah (السلامة): freedom/innocence [from fault]. 'Tasallama minhu' means he cleared himself of it/disavowed it. Ibn al-Aʿrābī said: al-salāmah means al-ʿāfiyah (well-being/health), and al-salāmah is also [the name of] a tree. Concerning His saying, Most High: 'and when the ignorant address them, they say: Peace (salāman)' [Qurʾān 25:63] — its meaning is disavowal and freedom [from conflict], i.e., 'there is neither good nor harm between us and you,' and this is not the al-salām used in the greeting of salutation, because the verse is Meccan and the Muslims were not yet commanded at that time to greet the polytheists with peace. All this is the statement of Sībawayh, who related that Abū Rabīʿah used to say: 'If you meet so-and-so, say salāman,' meaning 'a disavowal'; and others say: 'salāmun,' meaning 'my affair and your affair is [mutual] disengagement and abandonment [of conflict].' Ibn ʿArafah said: 'qālū salāman' means they spoke words by which they disengage themselves, containing neither aggression nor sin. The pre-Islamic Arabs used to greet one another by one saying to his companion 'Good morning' (anʿim ṣabāḥan) or 'May you not be cursed' (abayta al-laʿn), and they would also say 'salāmun ʿalaykum,' which served as a sign of peaceful intent, indicating there was no war between them; then Islam came, and they restricted themselves to al-salām and were commanded to spread it widely. Abū Manṣūr said: [the meaning is] 'we offer you peace and do not treat you with hostility/ignorance'; it is also said that 'qālū salāman' means they spoke sound and purposeful words, free of idle speech. Regarding His saying 'qālū salāman' — it is said this means: 'they offered a greeting of peace'; and regarding another reading, 'salāmun' means 'my affair is peace; I desire nothing but safety,' and this last reading was also recited as 'qāla salamun' (قال سلم — with the alternate vocalization). Al-Farrāʾ said: salm and salām are one and the same; al-Zajjāj said: the first is in the accusative [as if implying 'they spoke words of'] salāman, while the second is in the nominative meaning 'my affair is [one of] peace.' Concerning His saying, mighty and majestic is He: 'peace it is, until the rising of the dawn' [Qurʾān 97:5] — meaning it contains no harm, and Satan is unable to work any mischief in it; it is also possible that al-salām here is the plural of salāmah. Al-salām also means 'the greeting' (al-taḥiyyah). Ibn Qutaybah said: it is possible that al-salām and al-salāmah are two [synonymous] dialectal forms, like ladhādh and ladhādhah, and he cited the verse: 'Do you greet with safety (bi-l-salāmah), O mother of Bakr, / or is there, after your people, any safety (salām) left for you?' He said: it is also possible that al-salām is the plural of salāmah. Abū al-Haytham said: al-salām and al-taḥiyyah (greeting) share the same meaning, namely safety from all afflictions. Al-Jawharī [says]: al-silm, with kasrah, means al-salām (greeting), as in the verse: 'We halted and said: Well then, peace (silm)! And she returned the greeting, / and there was nothing but a gesture with the eyebrows.' Ibn Barrī said: what al-Qannānī transmitted was: 'We halted and said: Peace! And she was startled by her captor, / and there was nothing but a gesture with the eyebrows.' In the ḥadīth on the [funeral] greeting: 'Say: al-salāmu ʿalayka (peace be upon you), for [saying] ʿalayka al-salām is the greeting of the dead' — he said this alludes to what was customary in their elegies, where they would place the pronoun referring to the deceased before the invocation for him, as in the phrase: 'ʿalayka salāmun min amīrin, wa-bārakat / yadu Allāhi fī dhālika al-adīm...' [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    السلام والسلامة: البراءة. وتسلم منه: تبرأ. وقال ابن الأعرابي: السلامة العافية، والسلامة شجرة. وقوله تعالى: وإذا خاطبهم الجاهلون قالوا سلاما ، معناه تسلما وبراءة لا خير بيننا وبينكم ولا شر، وليس على السلام المستعمل في التحية لأن الآية مكية ولم يؤمر المسلمون يومئذ أن يسلموا على المشركين، هذا كله قول سيبويه وزعم أن أبا ربيعة كان يقول: إذا لقيت فلانا فقل سلاما أي تسلما، قال: ومنهم من يقول سلام أي أمري وأمرك المبارأة والمتاركة. قال ابن عرفة: قالوا سلاما أي قالوا قولا يتسلمون فيه ليس فيه تعد ولا مأثم، وكانت العرب في الجاهلية يحيون بأن يقول أحدهم لصاحبه أنعم صباحا، وأبيت اللعن، ويقولون: سلام عليكم، فكأنه علامة المسالمة وأنه لا حرب هنالك، ثم جاء الله بالإسلام فقصروا على السلام وأمروا بإفشائه، قال أبو منصور: نتسلم منكم سلاما ولا نجاهلكم، وقيل: قالوا سلاما أي سدادا من القول وقصدا لا لغو فيه. وقوله: قالوا سلاما ، قال: أي سلموا سلاما، وقال: سلام أي أمري سلام لا أريد غير السلامة، وقرئت الأخيرة: قال سلم ، قال الفراء: وسلم وسلام واحد، وقال الزجاج: الأول منصوب على سلموا سلاما، والثاني مرفوع على معنى أمري سلام. وقوله عز وجل: سلام هي حتى مطلع الفجر ، أي لا داء فيها ولا يستطيع الشيطان أن يصنع فيها شيئا وقد يجوز أن يكون السلام جمع سلامة. والسلام: التحية، قال ابن قتيبة: يجوز أن يكون السلام والسلامة لغتين كاللذاذ واللذاذة، وأنشد: تحيي بالسلامة أم بكر، ... وهل لك بعد قومك من سلام؟ قال: ويجوز أن يكون السلام جمع سلامة، وقال أبو الهيثم: السلام والتحية معناهما واحد، ومعناهما السلامة من جميع الآفات. الجوهري: والسلم، بالكسر، السلام، وقال: وقفنا فقلنا: إيه سلم! فسلمت، ... فما كان إلا ومؤها بالحواجب قال ابن بري: والذي رواه القناني: فقلنا: السلام، فاتقت من أسيرها، ... وما كان إلا ومؤها بالحواجب وفي حديث التسليم: قل السلام عليك فإن عليك السلام تحية الموتى ، قال: هذه إشارة إلى ما جرت به عادتهم في المراثي، كانوا يقدمون ضمير الميت على الدعاء له كقوله: عليك سلام من أمير، وباركت ... يد الله في ذاك الأديم الممزق وكقول الآخر: عليك سلام الله، قيس بن عاصم، ... ورحمته ما شاء أن يترحما قال: وإنما فعلوا ذلك لأن المسلم على القوم يتوقع الجواب وأن يقال له عليك السلام، فلما كان الميت لا يتوقع منه جواب جعلوا السلام عليه كالجواب، وقيل: أراد بالموتى كفار الجاهلية، وهذا في الدعاء بالخير والمدح، وأما الشر والذم فيقدم الضمير كقوله تعالى: وإن عليك لعنتي، وكقوله: عليهم دائرة السوء*. والسنة لا تختلف في تحية الأموات والأحياء، ويشهد له الحديث الصحيح: أنه كان إذا دخل القبور قال سلام عليكم دار قوم مؤمنين. والتسليم: مشتق من السلام اسم الله تعالى لسلامته من العيب والنقص، وقيل: معناه أن الله مطلع عليكم فلا تغفلوا، وقيل: معناه اسم السلام عليك، إذ كان اسم الله تعالى يذكر على الأعمال توقعا لاجتماع معاني الخيرات فيه، وانتفاء عوارض الفساد عنه، وقيل: معناه سلمت مني فاجعلني أسلم منك من السلامة بمعنى السلام. ويقال: السلام عليكم، وسلام عليكم، وسلام، بحذف عليكم، ولم يرد في القرآن غالبا إلا منكرا كقوله تعالى: سلام عليكم بما صبرتم ، فأما في تشهد الصلاة فيقال فيه معرفا ومنكرا، والظاهر الأكثر من مذهب الشافعي أنه اختار التنكير، قال: وأما في السلام الذي يخرج به من الصلاة فروى الربيع عنه أنه قال: لا يكفيه إلا معرفا ، فإنه قال: أقل ما يكفيه أن يقول السلام عليكم ، فإن نقص من هذا حرفا عاد فسلم، ووجهه أن يكون أراد بالسلام اسم الله، فلم يجز حذف الألف واللام منه، وكانوا يستحسنون أن يقولوا في الأول سلام عليكم وفي الآخر السلام عليكم، وتكون الألف واللام للعهد، يعني السلام الأول. وفي حديث عمران بن حصين: كان يسلم علي حتى اكتويت ، يعني أن الملائكة كانت تسلم عليه فلما اكتوى بسبب مرضه تركوا السلام عليه، لأن الكي يقدح في التوكل والتسليم إلى الله والصبر على ما يبتلى به العبد وطلب الشفاء من عنده، وليس ذلك قادحا في جواز الكي، ولكنه قادح في التوكل، وهي درجة عالية وراء مباشرة الأسباب. والسلام: السلامة. والسلام: الله عز وجل، اسم من أسمائه لسلامته من النقص والعيب والفناء، حكاه ابن قتيبة، وقيل: معناه أنه سلم مما يلحق الغير من آفات الغير والفناء، وأنه الباقي الدائم الذي تفنى الخلق ولا يفنى، وهو على كل شيء قدير. والسلام في الأصل: السلامة، يقال: سلم يسلم سلاما وسلامة، ومنه قيل للجنة: دار السلام لأنها دار السلامة من الآفات. وروى يحيى بن جابر أن أبا بكر قال: السلام أمان الله في الأرض. وقوله تعالى: لهم دار السلام عند ربهم ، قال بعضهم: السلام هاهنا الله ودليله السلام المؤمن المهيمن ، وقال الزجاج: سميت دار السلام لأنها دار السلامة الدائم …

  • Lane · 1876English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    E. W. Lane (d. 1876), An Arabic-English Lexicon. English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    سَلِمَ

    1. سَلِمَ, [aor. سَلَمَ ,] inf. n. سَلَامَةٌ (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and سَلَامٌ (A, TA) and سَلَمٌ and سَلْمٌ and سِلْمٌ, (Bd in xxxix. 30,) He was, or became, safe, or secure; or he escaped; (M, TA;) or he was, or became, free; (TA;) مِنَ الآفَاتِ [from evils of any kind], (S, Mgh,) or مِنَ الآفَةِ [from evil of any kind], (K,) or مِنَ البَلَآءِ [from trial, or affliction], (A, TA,) or مِنَ الأَمْرِ [from the affair]: (M:) he (a traveller) was, or became, safe, secure, or free, from evils of any kind: (Msb:) and سَلِمَ مِنَ العَيْبِ he was, or became, free from fault, defect, imperfection, blemish, or vice; syn. بَرِئَ. (Msb in art. برأ.) [Hence,] one says, لَا بِذِى تَسْلَمُ مَا كَانَ Gَذَا وَكَذَا, (ISk, S, K, *) meaning No, by God [or Him] who maketh thee to be in safety, (ISk, S, K,) [such and such things were not;] and to two persons لا بذى تَسْلَمَانِ, and to a pl. number لا بذى تَسْلَمُونَ, and to a female لا بذى تَسْلَمِينَ, and to a pl. number [of females] لا بذى تَسْلَمْنَ. (ISk, S, K. *) And لَا أَفْعَلُ ذٰلِكَ بِذِى تَسْلَمُ, meaning, بِذِى سَلَامَتِكِ [i. e. I will not do that, by the Author (lit. Lord or Master) of thy safety]; and in like manner, بذى تَسْلَمَانِ, and بذى تَسْلَمُونَ. (Sb, M. [See also ذو.]) And اِذْهَبْ بِذِى تَسْلَمُ, i. e. اِذْهَبْ بِسَلَامَتِكَ [Go thou with thy safety; or, with the Author of thy safety to protect thee; meaning go thou in safety]; and [to two persons] اِذْهَبَا بِذِى تَسْلَمَانِ. (S, K.) ذى is thus prefixed to a verb [as virtually governing it in the gen. case] like as آيَة is in an instance mentioned under this latter word; but these are two extr. instances; for only a noun significant of time is [regularly] prefixed to a verb, as in the phrase هٰذَا يَوْمُ يُفْعَلُ, meaning يُفْعَلُ فِيهِ: (Akh, S:) it is not prefixed to any but this verb تَسْلَمُ [and its variations as above mentioned]. (Sb, M, K.) And hence, (Mgh,) one says also, سَلِمَتْ لَهُ الضَّيْعَةُ, meaning [The landed estate] was, or became, free from participation to him; syn. خَلَصَت. (Mgh, TA.) سلمهُ, [app. سَلَمَهُ, or perhaps سَلِمَهُ, for some verbs of this measure are trans., as حَسِبَ and وَرِثَ,] inf. n. سلم, [app. سَلَمٌ, q. v. infrà,] He made him a captive. (TA.) سَلَمَتْهُ الحَيَّةُ, (TA,) inf. n. سَلْمٌ, (M, K, TA,) The serpent bit him: (M, * K, * TA:) mentioned by Az, but he adds that no one but Lth has said this. (TA.) سَلَمَ الجِلْدَ, aor. سَلِمَ , (S, K,) inf. n. سَلْمٌ, (TA,) He tanned the skin with [قَرَظ, i. e. leaves of] the سَلَم [or mimosa flava]. (S, K, TA.) سَلَمَ الدَّلْوَ, (M, K,) aor. سَلِمَ , inf. n. سَلْمٌ, (M,) He finished making the leathern bucket; and made it firm, strong, or sound, or made it firmly, strongly, or soundly. (M, K.)

    سلّمهُ

    2. سلّمهُ, (S, M, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَسْلِيمٌ, (K,) He (God) made him to be safe, secure, or free; saved, secured, or freed, him; (M, Msb, TA;) مِنَ الآفَاتِ [from evils of any kind], (S, Msb,) or مِنَ الآفَةِ [from evil of any kind], (K,) or مِنَ الأَمْرِ [from the affair]. (M.) [Freytag assigns the same meaning to اسلمهُ also, as on the authority of the Ham; in which I find no explanation of this verb except one which will be found later in this paragraph.] [Hence,] التَّسْلِيمُ is also syn. with السَّلَامُ, (S, K, TA,) as meaning The saluting, or greeting, one with a prayer for his safety, or security, or freedom, from evils of any kind in his religion and in his person; and the interpretation thereof is [the expressing a desire for] التَّخْلِيصٌ; (Mbr, TA;) or the saluting, or greeting, one with a prayer for his life; or, by saying سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكَ [q. v. infrà, voce سَلَامٌ]; syn. التَّحِيَّةُ. (TA.) You say, سَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِ [meaning He so saluted, or greeted, him]. (M, Msb.) [This, when said of God, virtually means سَلَّمَهُ, i. e. He saved him; and should be rendered agreeably with this explanation in the phrase commonly used after the mention of the Prophet, صَلَّى ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ May God bless and save him. You say also, سَلَّمَ عَلَيْهِ بِالخِلَافَةِ He saluted him with the acknowledgment of his being Khaleefeh; saying, سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكَ يَا أَمِيرَ المُؤْمِنِينَ Salutation to thee, or peace be on thee, &c., O Prince of the Faithful.] التَّسْلِيمَةُ signifies The salutation that is pronounced on finishing every two rek'ahs in prayer: (Har p. 180:) [and also that which is pronounced after the last rek'ah of each of the prayers (i. e. after the sunneh prayers and the fard alike), addressed to the two guardian and recording angels: (see my “ Modern Egyptians, ” ch. iii., p. 78 of the 5th ed.:) and سَلَّمَ means He pronounced either of those salutations.] [Hence also,] سلّم إِلَيْهِ الشَّىْءَ, (S, K, *) inf. n. as above; (K;) and اسلم اليه الشىءَ; (M;) He gave to him the thing; (S, * M, K;) or delivered it to him: (M:) [he resigned it to him:] and سلّم إِلَيْهِ الوَدِيعَةَ, (Mgh,) or سلّم الوَدِيعَةَ لِصَاحِبِهَا, He delivered the deposit [to him, or] to its owner: (Msb:) and اسلم الثَّوْبَ إِلَى الخَيَّاطِ (Mgh) signifies the same as سلّمهُ إِلَيْهِ [i. e. He delivered the garment, or piece of cloth, to the tailor]. (Har p. 166.) See also 4, in two places. You say also, سلّم الأَجِيرُ نَفْسَهُ لِلْمُسْتَأْجِرِ The hired man gave himself up, or gave authority over himself, to the hirer. (Msb.) And أَسْلَمْتُهُ and سَلَّمْتُهُ I left him in the power of him who desired to kill him or to wound him. (Ham p. 115.) And لِلْهَلَكَةِ اسلمهُ [He gave him up to destruction]: in this case with [the prep.] ل only. (Har p. 166.) And الرَّجُلَ اسلم, (S, * M, Msb, *) or العَدُوَّ, (K,) He left, forsook, or deserted, (M, K,) the man, (S, * M, Msb, *) or the enemy; (K;) or abstained from aiding, or assisting, him; (S, M, Msb, K;) and threw him into destruction. (IAth, TA.) And لِمَا بِهِ اسلمهُ He left him [to that bane which was in him: app. referring to the bite of a serpent, or any evil affection: see سَلِيمٌ, third sentence]. (S, * M.) And سلّم أَمْرَهُ إِلَى ٱللّٰهِ and اسلمهُ, both meaning the same, (S, Msb, K, TA,) i. e. He committed his case to God. (TA.) And سلّم الدَّعْوَى He acknowledged the truth [or justice] of the claim, demand, or suit; [he conceded its truth or justice;] from سلّم الوَدِيعَةَ لِصَاحِبِهَا, expl. above; denoting an ideal delivering [or yielding of a thing to another person]. (Msb.) [Hence one says, سلّم أَنَّهُ كَذَا He conceded that it was thus.] And التَّسْلِيمُ signifies also [The assenting, or] the giving [one's] approval (S, K, TA) unreservedly, (S,) to that which is ordained, or decreed, (S, K, TA,) by God; and the submitting to his commands; and the abstaining from offering opposition in the case in which it is not becoming [to do so]. (TA.) You say, سلّم لِأَمْرِ ٱللّٰهِ He assented to the command of God: [or he gave his approval to it:] or he submitted to it; as also اسلم. (MA.)

    سالمهُ

    3. سالمهُ, (M, Msb,) inf. n. مُسَالَمَةٌ (S, M, Msb) and سِلَامٌ, (M, Msb,) He made peace, or became at peace or reconciled, with him; or he reconciled himself with him: [implying mutual concession, or a compromise:] (S, * M, Msb:) and سَالَمَا They made peace, or became at peace or reconciled, or they reconciled themselves, each with the other. (K.)

    أَسْلَمَ

    4: see 2, in nine places. [The first of the meanings there assigned to this verb is, in my opinion, more than doubtful. In all its senses, it seems to be properly trans.: when it is used as an intrans. verb, an objective complement is app. understood. Thus,] أَسْلَمَ is syn. with أَسْلَفَ [as meaning He paid in advance, or beforehand]; (S, M, Mgh, Msb;) الثَّمَنَ [the price] being suppressed, though sometimes it is expressed; (Mgh;) as also سلّم; (M;) and تسلّم, as occurring in a trad., where it is said, مَنْ تَسَلَّمَ فِى شَىْءٍ فَلَا يَصْرِفُهُ إِلَى غَيْرِهِ [Whoso pays in advance for a thing, he shall not turn it over, or transfer it, to another than him]; but Kt says that he had not heard this verb thus used except in this instance. (TA.) So the first of these verbs signifies in the saying, اسلم فِى الطَّعَامِ (S) or فى البُرِّ (Mgh) [He paid in advance for the wheat], and فى الشَّىْءِ [for the thing], as also سلّم. (M.) And hence the saying, إِذَا أَسْلَمَ صُوفًا فِى لِبْدٍ أَوْ شَعَرًا فِى مِسْحٍ لَمْ يَجُزْ [If he give in advance wool for felt, or goats' hair for a garment, or piece, of haircloth, it will not be allowable]. (Mgh.) And so in the phrase, أَسْلَمْتُ إِلَيْهِ [I paid in advance to him]. (Msb.) Also [He resigned, or submitted, himself; نَفْسَهُ being understood: or] he was, or became, resigned, or submissive; (M, K;) and so استسلم: (S, M, Msb, K:) you say, اسلم لِلّٰهِ [He resigned, or submitted, himself, or he was, or became, resigned, or submissive, to God: see also an ex. (before referred to) in the last sentence of the second paragraph: or he was, or became, sincere in his religion, or without hypocrisy, towards God: see مُسْلِمٌ]: (Msb:) [or] اسلم signifies he entered into السِّلْم, (S, Msb,) which here means الاِسْتِسْلَام [i. e. the state of resignation, or submission]. (S.) And He became a Muslim; as also تسلّم; (M, * K;) as in the saying, كَانَ كَافِرًا ثُمَّ تَسَلَّمَ, i. e. أَسْلَمَ [He was an unbeliever, or a denier of the unity of God, &c.; then he became a Muslim]: (M:) or he entered [the pale, or communion, of] the religion of الإِسْلَام. (S, * Msb.) الإِسْلَامُ as a principle of the law of God is The manifesting of humility or submission, and outward conforming with the law of God, and the taking upon oneself to do or to say as the Prophet has done or said: for this, the blood is to be spared, and one may demand the repelling of evil: (T, * M:) and if there is therewith firm belief with the heart, it is إِيمَانٌ: (T:) this is the doctrine of Esh-Sháfi'ee; but the doctrine of Aboo-Haneefeh makes no difference between these two terms: (KT:) [agreeably with the former doctrine,] Th well and briefly says, الاسلام is with the tongue, and الايمان is with the heart: and he says, in explaining verse 48 of ch. v. of the Kur, that every prophet has been sent with الاسلام, though the ordinances differ. (M.) One says also, أَسْلَمْتُ عَنْهُ, meaning I left it [app. an affair, as in an explanation in the TK,] after I had been [engaged] in it. (Ibn-Buzurj, K.) And اسلم occurs intransitively in the saying, كَانَ رَاعِىَ غَنَمٍ ثُمَّ أَسْلَمَ, meaning [He was a pastor of sheep, or goats; then] he left them. (M.) [Freytag assigns to اسلم another signification “ Adscendere fecit (vid. a سُلَّم), ” as from the Ham, p. 39: but this is app. a mistake, into which he has been led by a saying, there cited, of Zuheyr, which I read thus: (meaning, The descent, or as the descent, of the bucket that the well-rope has let go): and by its being there said that “ you should not prefer any reading of هوى to that with damm, though it has been said otherwise: ” whereas the correct reading is, in my opinion, هَوِىّ, agreeably with what here follows:] Er-Riyáshee says, on the authority of AZ, that الهَوِىُّ, with fet-h, is downwards; and with damm, upwards; and he cites the saying above as an ex. of the word as meaning downwards. (TA in art. هوى.)

    تسلّم مِنْهُ

    5. تسلّم مِنْهُ He asserted, or declared, himself to be free from, or clear of, or quit of, it, or him. (M.) تسلّم is also syn. with أُسْلَمَ, in two senses: see the latter, in two places. And تسلّمهُ signifies He took it, or received it; namely, a thing given, or delivered. (S, M, Msb, K.)

    تسالموا

    6. تسالموا, (M,) and تسالما, (K,) inf. n. تَسَالُمٌ, (S,) They, (M,) or they two, (K,) made peace, or became at peace or reconciled, (S, * M, K,) one with another, (S, M,) or each with the other. (S, K.) [See also 8.] One says of a man, (M,) of a great, or frequent, liar, (TA,) لَا تَسَالَمُ خَيْلَاهُ, [for تَتَسَالَمُ,] (M,) or لَا يَتَسَالَمُ خَيْلَاهُ, (K, TA,) [(assumed tropical:) His two troops of horses will not agree in pace, each with the other;] meaning (tropical:) [his assertions will not be found to agree together; or] he will not say what is true, so that it may be accepted from him: for تَسَالَمَتْ, said of horses, means (assumed tropical:) they kept pace, one with another; (تَسَايَرَتْ [q. v.];) not exciting one another. (M, K, TA.)

    استلم

    8. استلم He became at peace, or reconciled. (TA.) Hence the saying, (TA,) هُوَ لَا يَسْتَلَمُ عَلَى سَخَطِهِ He will not become at peace, or reconciled, during his displeasure at a thing. (K, TA.) [See also 6.] استلم الزَّرْعُ The seed-produce put forth its ears. (K.) استلم الحَجَرَ He touched, (S, K,) or reached, (Mgh,) the stone, [meaning the Black Stone of the Kaabeh,] by kissing, or with the hand: (S, Mgh, K:) or he wiped it, or stroked it, with the hand: (Mgh:) or he kissed the stone: or he embraced it: (M:) and اِسْتَلْأَمَهُ signifies the same; (M, K;) but is not the original: (M:) accord. to ISk, the Arabs pronounced it with hemz, contr. to analogy; (Msb;) or it should not be pronounced with hemz, though some thus pronounce it, (S,) the original being استلم, (ISk, Msb,) because it is from سِلَامٌ [pl. of سَلِمَةٌ] signifying “ stones, ” (ISk, S, * M, Msb, * [in the Mgh, from سَلِمَةٌ signifying “ a stone, ” and in the Msb the pl. of سَلِمَةٌ is said to be سَلَامٌ, like كَلَامٌ,]) accord. to Sb, who says that it does not denote the act of taking; (M;) or, accord. to Sb, it is from السَّلَامُ, with fet-h, meaning “ salutation, ” and it means the touching with the hand by way of salutation in order to obtain a blessing thereby: (TA:) but accord. to IAar, the original is with hemz, from المُلَآءَمَةُ, meaning الاِجْتِمَاعُ [“ the coming together, ” &c., because denoting contact]. (Msb.) Abu-t-Tufeyl is related to have said, رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ ٱللّٰهِ صَلَّى ٱللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَطُوفُ عَلَى رَاحِلَتِهِ يَسْتَلِمُ بِمِحْجَنِهِ وَيُقَبِّلُ المِحْجَنَ [i. e. I saw the Apostle of God (may God bless and save him) circuiting around the Kaabeh, upon his camel, touching the Black Stone with his hooked staff, and kissing the hooked staff]. (TA.) The primary signification of الاِسْتِلَامُ is [said to be] The wiping, or stroking, the سَلِمَة, i. e. the stone: afterwards it was used in relation to other things, and one said اِسْتَلَمْتُ يَدَهَا, meaning I stroked, or kissed, her hand. (Har pp. 30 and 31.) استلم الخُفُّ قَدَمَيْهِ means The boot rendered his feet soft [after he had been accustomed to walking barefoot]. (TA.)

    إِسْتَسْلَمَ

    10: see 4, in the former half of the paragraph. استسلم ثَكَمَ الطَّرِيقِ He went upon the middle of the road, not missing it. (K, * TA. [In the CK, after واسْتَسْلَمَ انقادَ, for وثَكَمَ الطَّرِيقِ, meaning واستسلم ثَكَمَ الطَّرِيقِ, is erroneously put وتَسَلَّمَ الطَّرِيقَ, assigning to تسلّم a meaning belonging to استسلم.])

    تَمَسْلَمَ

    Q. Q. 2. تَمَسْلَمَ [from مُسْلِمٌ] He named, or called, himself a Muslim; or he named himself Muslim; his name having before been Mohammad: (M, K:) mentioned by Er-Ru-ásee. (M.)

    سَلْمٌ

    سَلْمٌ: see the next paragraph, in six places. Also A leathern bucket (دَلْوٌ) having one عُرْوَة [or loop-shaped handle], (T, S, M, K,) with which the waterer walks, like the buckets (دِلَآء) of the attendants of the camels or other beasts upon which water is drawn or which carry water, (T, TA,) or like the دَلْو of the water-carriers: (S, K:) expl. in the S as above as on the authority of AA; but IB says that the correct explanation is, having one عَرْقُوَة [or stick fixed across from one part of the brim to the to the opposite part, serving as a handle as well as to keep it from collapsing]: (TA:) of the masc. gender [whereas دَلْوٌ is fem.]: (M:) pl. [of pauc.] أَسْلُمٌ and [of mult.] سِلَامٌ, (M, K,) and Lh mentions as its pl. أَسَالِمُ, which is extr. [unless as a pl. pl., i. e. pl. of أَسْلُمٌ]. (M.)

    سِلْمٌ

    سِلْمٌ Peace, or reconciliation; as also سَلْمٌ; (S, M, Msb, K;) masc. and fem.; (S, Msb, K; *) and سَلَمٌ and سَلَامٌ are like سِلْمٌ [in signification]: (M: [the context there shows that the signification mentioned above is what is meant in this instance:]) or سِلْمٌ signifies the making peace, or becoming at peace or reconciled, with another or others; (Ham p. 80;) as also سَلْمٌ; and both are sometimes fem. as being syn. with مُصَالَحَةٌ. (L voce جَنَحَ, q. v.) In the saying of El-Aashà, [War made them, or has made them, to taste its draughts, and verily war is disliked after peace], he has transferred the vowel of the م to the ل, in pausing; or it may be that he has inserted a kesreh in imitation of the preceding kesreh: it is not an instance like إِبِل, in the opinion of Sb; for in his opinion the latter is the only instance of its kind. (M.) It is said in a trad., respecting El-Hodeybiyeh, أَخَذَ ثَمَانِينَ مِنْ أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ سِلْمًا, or سَلْمًا, or سَلَمًا, accord. to different relations, meaning [He took forty of the people of Mekkeh] peaceably: thus expl. by El-Homeydee, in his “ Ghareeb. ” (TA. [See also سَلَمٌ below.]) Also i. q. سَلَامٌ, (S, K, TA,) as signifying Selfresignation, or submission; (TA; [and thus the latter is expl. in one place in the S;]) which is also a signification of سَلَمٌ: (S, M, K, TA:) and this is meant in the Kur [iv. 96], where it is said, لَسْتَ مُؤْمِنًا وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَنْ أَلْقَى إِلَيْكُمُ ٱلسَّلَامَ, (Bd, TA,) or السَّلَمَ, as some read, (Bd,) [i. e. And say not ye to him who offers to you submission, Thou art not a believer:] or السَّلَامَ here means the salutation of الإِسْلَام [by saying سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ]: (Bd, TA: *) or salutation, and submission by uttering the profession of الإِسْلَام; and so السَّلَمَ: (Jel:) [or the latter here means, simply, salutation; and this is app. what is meant by its being said that] السَّلَمُ is the subst. from التَّسْلِيمُ; (K;) [but accord. to SM,] this means the unreserved approval of what is decreed; and this is said to be meant by the reading السَّلَمَ mentioned above. (TA.) And [hence] السِّلْمُ signifies also الإِسْلَامُ [as meaning The religion of the Muslims; because it is a religion of self-resignation, or submission]: (S, K:) this is meant in the Kur [ii. 204], where it is said, اُدْخُلُوا فِى السِّلْمِ كَافَّةً [Enter ye into the religion of El-Islám wholly]; (S, Bd, Jel;) and so السَّلْمِ, as some there read; (Bd, Jel;) or both there mean submission and obedience to God: (Bd:) [and] السَّلَمُ [also] has the former meaning. (M.) Also, (S, M, K,) and سَلْمٌ, (M,) A man, (S, K, TA,) [and] a woman, (M,) who makes peace, or is at peace, with another; (S, M, K;) and in like manner, a company of men (قَوْمٌ). (M.) This is said to be meant in the Kur [xxxix. 30], where it is said, وَرَجْلًا سِلْمًا لِرَجُلٍ, as some read, i. e. And a man who is at peace with respect to a man: (TA:) or سِلْمًا and سَلْمًا and سَلَمًا, three different readings, in the place of [the more common reading] سَالِمًا, are all inf. ns. of سَلِمَ, used as epithets [syn. with سَالِمًا], or ذَا is suppressed before them. (Bd.) You say, أَنَا سِلْمٌ لِمَنْ سَالَمَنِى [I am one who is at peace with respect to him who is at peace with me]. (S, TA.) And a poet says, [using this word in two different senses, the latter of which has been mentioned above,] [O Náïleh, (نَائِلُ being for نَائِلَةٌ, a woman's name, apocopated,) verily I am one who is at peace with respect to thy family, therefore accept thou my submission]. (TA. [It seems to be there indicated by the context that سلمى here means my peace, or reconciliation; which is less appropriate than the meaning that I have assigned to it.])

    سَلَمٌ

    سَلَمٌ: see سَلَامٌ: and see also سِلْمٌ, in seven places. Also, in buying or selling, (Msb,) the subst. from أَسْلَمَ فِى الشَّىْءِ and سَلَّمَ signifying أَسْلَفَ, (M,) i. q. سَلَفٌ; (S, Msb, K;) i. e. Any money, or property, paid in advance, or beforehand, as the price of a commodity for which the seller has become responsible and which one has bought on description: (T and TA in art. سلف:) or payment for a commodity to be delivered at a certain [future] period with something additional to [the equivalent of] the current price at the time of such payment; this [transaction] being a cause of profit to him who makes such payment: (TA in that art.:) or a sort of sale in which the price is paid in advance, and the commodity is withheld, on the condition of description, to a certain [future] period: (S and O in that art., in explanation of سَلَفٌ:) but it is said in a trad. that the term سَلَمٌ as meaning سَلَفٌ was disliked; app. because the former is applied to obedience, and self-resignation, or submission, to God. (TA.) And The making [one] captive. (K. [See 1, in the latter part of the paragraph.]) And A captive; (K;) because he submits himself. (TA.) One says, أَخَذَهُ سَلَمًا, (M, TA, [in the TK بِالسَّلَمِ,]) He took him [a captive], (TA,) or made him captive, (M,) without war: (M, TA:) or he brought him in a state of submission, not resisting; and so, if wounded: (IAar, M, TA:) and thus El-Khattábee has expl. the phrase in the trad. respecting El-Hodeybiyeh cited above, voce سِلْمٌ. (TA.) Also A sort of tree, (S, M, Msb, K,) [the mimosa flava of Forskål, who writes its Arabic name in Italic characters syllæm, and in Arabic characters سليم, (Flora Aegypt. Arab., p. cxxiii.,)] a species (M) of the [kind of thorny trees called] عِضَاه, (S, M, Mgh, Msb, TA, [not غَضَاة, as in the Lexicons of Golius and Freytag,]) the leaves whereof are the قَرَظ, with which skin is tanned: (TA:) AHn says, its branches are long, like rods; and it has no wood such as is used in carpentry, even if it grows large: it has slender, long thorns, grievous when they wound the foot of a man; and a yellow [fruit such as is termed] بَرَمَة [n. un. of بَرَمٌ, see this word, and see also حُبْلَةٌ,] which is the sweetest of the بَرَم in odour; and they tan with its leaves: and it is said, on the authority of the Arabs of the desert, that it has a yellow flower, containing a green grain (حَبَّة خَضْرَآء [or this may mean a grain of a dark, or an ashy, dustcolour]), of sweet odour, in which is somewhat of bitterness, and of which the gazelles are very fond: (M:) the n. un. is with ة: (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K:) and pl. أَسْلَامٌ, (M,) and سِلَامٌ is said by IB to be pl. of the n. un., like as إِكَامٌ is of أَكَمَةٌ. (TA.) [Hence,] ذَاتُ أَسْلَامٍ A land (أَرْض) that gives growth to the [trees called] سَلَم. (K.) See also سلَمَان.

    Lane, Arabic-English Lexiconread Lane's entry online ↗
Technical definitions8 · Ibn ʿArabī’s Iṣṭilāḥ, al-Jurjānī’s Taʿrīfāt
  • الإسلام

    الخضوع والانقياد لما أخبر به الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم. وفي الكشاف: أن كل ما يكون الإقرار باللسان من غير مواطأة القلب، فهو إسلام، وما واطأ فيه القلب اللسان فهو إيمان. أقول: هذا مذهب الشافعي، وأما مذهب أبي حنيفة فلا فرق بينهما.

    Al-Islām (الإسلام): submission and compliance with what the Messenger, God bless him and grant him peace, has informed. In al-Kashshāf it is stated: whatever consists of verbal affirmation without corresponding conviction of the heart is Islām, while that in which the heart agrees with the tongue is Īmān (faith). I say: this is the doctrine of al-Shāfiʿī; as for the doctrine of Abū Ḥanīfah, there is no distinction between the two [terms].

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 419 ↗

  • التسليم

    هو الانقياد لأمر الله تعالى وترك الاعتراض فيما لا يلائم.

    Al-Taslīm (التسليم): submission to the command of God Most High and abandoning objection to whatever does not accord [with one's wishes].

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 1148 ↗

  • التسليم

    استقبال القضاء بالرضا، وقيل: التسليم، هو الثبوت عند نزول البلاء من تغير في الظاهر والباطن.

    Al-Taslīm: receiving the divine decree with contentment; it is also said that al-taslīm is steadfastness upon the descent of affliction, without change in outward or inward state.

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 1149 ↗

  • السالم

    عند الصرفيين ما سلمت حروفه الأصلية، التي تقابل بالفاء والعين واللام، من حروف العلة، والهمزة، والتضعيف، وعند النحويين: ما ليس في آخره حرف علة، سواء كان في غيره أو لا، وسواء كان أصليا أو زائدا، فيكون نصر سالما عند الطائفتين، ورمى غير سالم عندهما، وباع غير سالم عند الصرفيين وسالما عند النحويين، وسنلقى سالما عند الصرفيين، وغير سالم عند النحويين.

    Al-Sālim (السالم): according to the morphologists (al-ṣarfiyyūn), that whose original root letters — corresponding to the fāʾ, ʿayn, and lām [pattern positions] — are free from letters of weakness (ḥurūf al-ʿillah), the hamzah, and doubling (tadʿīf); according to the grammarians (al-naḥwiyyūn), it is that whose final letter is not a letter of weakness, whether such a letter occurs elsewhere in the word or not, and whether it is original or augmented. Thus naṣara ('he helped') is sālim according to both groups, ramā ('he threw') is not sālim according to either group, bāʿa ('he sold') is not sālim according to the morphologists but is sālim according to the grammarians, and sanulqā ('we shall meet') is sālim according to the morphologists but not sālim according to the grammarians.

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 2336 ↗

  • السلم

    هو في اللغة التقديم والتسليم، وفي الشرع: اسم لعقد يوجب الملك للبائع في الثمن عاجلا، وللمشتري في الثمن آجلا، فالمبيع يسمى مسلما به، والثمن، يسمى: رأس المال، والبائع يسمى: مسلما إليه. والمشتري يسمى: رب السلم.

    Al-Salam (السلم): linguistically means advancement and delivery (al-taqdīm wa-l-taslīm); in legal terminology (al-sharʿ) it is the name for a contract that establishes ownership for the seller of the price immediately, and for the buyer of the merchandise at a deferred time. The merchandise [sold in this way] is called al-muslam bihi (المسلم به), the price is called raʾs al-māl (رأس المال, the capital), the seller is called al-muslam ilayhi (المسلم إليه), and the buyer is called rabb al-salam (رب السلم).

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 2433 ↗

  • السلام

    تجرد النفس عن المحنة في الدارين.

    Al-Salām (السلام): the soul's freedom from affliction in both abodes [this world and the next].

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 2437 ↗

  • السلامة في علم العروض

    بقاء الجزء على الحالة الأصلية.

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 2439 ↗

  • المسلمات

    قضايا تسلم من الخصم ويبنى عليها الكلام لدفعه؛ سواء كانت مسلمة بين الخصمين، أو بين أهل العلم، كتسليم الفقهاء مسائل أصول الفقه، كما يستدل الفقيه على وجوب الزكاة فيحلي المبالغة، بقوله صلى الله عليه وسلم، "في الحلي زكاة"، فلو قال الخصم، هذا خبر واحد ولا نسلم أنه حجة، فنقول له: قد ثبت هذا في علم أصول الفقه، ولا بد أن تأخذه هاهنا.

    al-Jurjānī, al-Taʿrīfāt, line 4303 ↗

The same three letters in all six orders. Choose one.

س ل م

السين واللام والميم معظم بابه من الصحة والعافية ويكون فيه ما يشذ والشاذ عنه قليل فالسلامة أن يسلم الإنسان من العاهة والأذى

s-l-m: most of its chapter is about soundness and well-being, and there is in it what deviates, and what deviates from it is little; al-salāma is for a person to be free from defect and harm.

Ibn Fāris ↗Lisān ↗Lane ↗al-Khalīl: used ↗Quran ×140

Do these six share one core meaning?

About thisal-Khalīl, Ibn Jinnī, Ibn Fāris; the counts across the dictionary

al-Khalīl (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn, as transmitted by al-Layth: a two-letter word “turns in two ways”, a three-letter word “in six ways” (masdūsa), four letters in 24, five in 120; “its used forms are written down and its unused ones dropped” (line 975 ↗). The dictionary is built on this: each chapter takes a set of letters and names which orders are used (mustaʿmal) and which unused (muhmal). The ring shows that verdict, from the chapter heading as edited (documented in the text; how much of the book is al-Khalīl's own is disputed).

A reported total. al-Suyūṭī transmits, from Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī, that al-Khalīl put the possible forms, used and unused, of two to five letters at 12,305,412 (al-Muzhir, line 1347 ↗). It is reported, not found in the ʿAyn. It equals exactly the arrangements of 2 to 5 different letters out of 28 (756 + 19,656 + 491,400 + 11,793,600); the breakdown printed beside it is corrupt, and al-Zubaydī's count, given next, differs (6,659,400).

Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, names the greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar): bind a three-letter root and its six orders to one meaning, and bring stray members back “by the subtlety of the craft and interpretation” (line 7536 ↗). He says himself that it does not hold for every root (line 167 ↗; line 7603 ↗).

Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) gives each root its own aṣl and treats a rearranged word as maqlūb, “turned round”, and so not a root of its own: “j-b-dh is not a root, because it is a single word, turned round” (Maqāyīs, line 6147 ↗). The ring sets his aṣl for each order side by side; whether they meet is the question.

Neighbours on the ring differ by one swap of two letters.

The critique. A source quoted by al-Suyūṭī calls the greater derivation Ibn Jinnī's innovation, “not relied on in the language” (al-Muzhir, line 6159 ↗).

The other axis. The root's letters also go into patterns that keep their order and change the frame: the patterns (awzān) and the verb Forms I–X.

Across Ibn Fāris's dictionary. Of the 2,300 possible sets of three different sound letters (no hamza, w or y), 1,021 have at least one order as an entry. How many of their six orders are entries:

Ibn Fāris, entries found (1,021 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6319
  2. 2 of 6218
  3. 3 of 6164
  4. 4 of 6155
  5. 5 of 6107
  6. 6 of 658
al-Khalīl, orders his headings call used (746 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6148
  2. 2 of 6108
  3. 3 of 6157
  4. 4 of 6179
  5. 5 of 6111
  6. 6 of 643

Of the orders al-Khalīl calls used, 2,097 are entries in Ibn Fāris and 267 are not; 17 that he calls unused are entries in Ibn Fāris.

Our computation from the OpenITI texts; heading detection can miss entries

Attested here means found in our digital texts (Ibn Fāris, Lisān al-ʿArab, Lane, the Quranic Arabic Corpus), with w and y kept apart and hamza spellings merged; it is our data, not a classical verdict. English beside the Arabic is AI translation. Sources and grades: docs/research/root-permutations.md.

How each letter is made, in brief, from Sībawayh's and Ibn Jinnī's own sentences (linked); their words are under Reference.

How it is madeSībawayh and Ibn Jinnī · phonetics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

س

ومما بين طرف اللسان وفويق الثنايا مخرج الزاي، والسين، والصاد

From between the tip of the tongue and just above the front teeth is the place of the zāy, the sīn and the ṣād. Sībawayh, line 26560 ↗

ومما بين الثنايا وطرف اللسان، مخرج الصاد والزاي والسين

From between the front teeth and the tip of the tongue is the place of the ṣād, the zāy and the sīn. Ibn Jinnī, line 983 ↗

ل

ومن حافة اللسان من أدناها إلى منتهى طرف اللسان، من بينها وبين ما يليها من الحنك الأعلى، مما فويق الضاحك والناب والرباعية والثنية، مخرج اللام

From the edge of the tongue, from its nearest part to the end of its tip, between it and the upper palate next to it, just above the premolar, the canine, the lateral and the central incisor, is the place of the lām. Ibn Jinnī, lines 977–978 ↗

م

ومما بين الشفتين مخرج الباء، والميم، والواو

From between the two lips is the place of the bāʾ, the mīm and the wāw. Sībawayh, line 26563 ↗

ومما بين الشفتين مخرج الباء والميم والواو

From between the two lips is the place of the bāʾ, the mīm and the wāw. Ibn Jinnī, line 986 ↗

Sībawayh, al-Kitāb (ed. Hārūn) and Ibn Jinnī, Sirr ṣināʿat al-iʿrāb; OpenITI digital texts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Full credits on each letter's page.

In the Breath of the All-MercifulIbn ʿArabī · metaphysics

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س

Level of existence: ما ظهر في الماء · what appears in water

Divine Name: المحيي · al-Muḥyī, the Life-Giver

Lunar mansion: النعائم · al-Naʿāʾim

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 62110

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 9 line 2572 ↗

السين والشين فطبعهما الحرارة واليبوسة

Sīn and shīn: their nature is heat and dryness.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2581

ل

Level of existence: السماء الثالثة · the third heaven

Divine Name: القاهر · the Subduer (al-Qāhir)

Lunar mansion: العوا · al-ʿAwwā

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64654

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 7 line 2576 ↗

منها دون الألف فطبعها الحرارة واليبوسة

[Zāy and lām] of it, excluding alif: their nature is heat and dryness.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2577

م

Level of existence: الإنسان · the human being

Divine Name: الجامع · al-Jāmiʿ, the Gatherer

Lunar mansion: المؤخر · al-Muʾakhkhar

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 62119

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582
Meaning by vowelal-Dabbāgh · a visionary claim about a primordial “Syriac”, not historical Syriac

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س

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء المليح الذي من طبعه الرقة.

It is an indication of the comely thing whose nature is delicacy.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء القبيح الخشن، أو إشارة إلى سواد حسا ومعنى.

It is an indication of the ugly, rough thing, or of blackness, sensible and figurative.

وبالكسر إشارة إلى الشيء الطابع وتكون الإشارة منه.

With kasra it is an indication of the impressing/stamping thing, and the indication proceeds from it.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ل

فهي حصول المتكلم على شيء عظيم، وتكون إشارة إلى شيء عظيم.

It is the speaker's attaining of something great, and it serves as an indication of something great.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي لا نهاية له.

It is an indication of the thing that has no end.

فهي إشارة من المتكلم إلى وجود ذاته أو إلى ذاته.

It is an indication by the speaker of the existence of his self, or of his self.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

م

فهي جميع المكونات.

It is all created beings.

فهي العزيز القليل كماء العين، ومنه قيل مومو.

It is the precious, scarce thing, like the water of the eye; from it comes the expression 'mūmū'.

فهي نور الذات ظاهرا كما في العين، وباطنا كما في القلب.

It is the light of the self, outwardly as in the eye and inwardly as in the heart.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī
Two-letter nucleus11 roots in Ibn Fāris’s chapterس ل

Ibn Fāris groups his roots under two-letter chapters (“the X and the Y and what makes them three”). These are the roots of this root's chapter with the core sense he gives each. Setting them side by side is our juxtaposition; he does not himself draw a shared meaning. His chapter heading, line 13962 ↗

  • سلمالسين واللام والميم معظم بابه من الصحة والعافية ويكون فيه ما يشذ والشاذ عنه قليل فالسلامة أن يسلم الإنسان من العاهة والأذىQ 140 · L13963
  • سلوىالسين واللام والحرف المعتل أصل واحد يدل على خفض وطيب عيشL13981
  • سلتالسين واللام والتاء أصل واحد وهو جلف الشيء عن الشيء وقشرهL14011
  • سلجالسين واللام والجيم أصل يدل على الابتلاعL14015
  • سلحالسين واللام والحاء السلاح وهو ما يقاتل به وكان أبو عبيدة يفرق بين السلاح والجنة فيقول السلاح ما قوتل به والجنة ما اتقى به ويحتج بقوله — حيث ترى الخيلQ 4 · L14018
  • سلخالسين واللام والخاء أصل واحد وهو إخراج الشيء عن جلده ثم يحمل عليه والأصل سلخت جلدة الشاة سلخا والسلخ جلد الحية تنسلخ ويقال أسود سالخ لأنه يسلخ جلده كلQ 3 · L14023
  • سلسالسين واللام والسين يدل على سهولة في الشيءL14028
  • سلعالسين واللام والعين أصل يدل على انصداع الشيء وانفتاحهL14035
  • سلغالسين واللام والغين ليس بأصل لكنه من باب الإبدال فسينه مبدلة من صادL14039
  • سلفالسين واللام والفاء أصل يدل على تقدم وسبقQ 8 · L14041
  • سلكالسين واللام والكاف أصل يدل على نفوذ شيء في شيءQ 12 · L14060
In the sister scriptsHebrew ס/ש ל מSyriac ܣ/ܫ ܠ ܡ
Arabicس ل م
Hebrewס/ש ל מ
Syriacܣ/ܫ ܠ ܡ
Ancient South Arabian (musnad)𐩯/𐩦 𐩡 𐩣
Phoenician𐤎/𐤔 𐤋 𐤌

Letter for letter, by the regular sound correspondences of the Semitic languages (Arabic keeps several sounds the others merged). This shows how the root would be spelled; whether a related word exists is a separate question, answered in the Semitic lens. Where an Arabic sibilant (s, sh) continues two older sounds, both spellings are shown.

  • Classical lexiconAl-Khalīl records concrete and quasi-taboo uses: silm, a bucket with one handle;well attested

    The lexicographers in chronological order, from al-Khalīl to Lane.

    Al-Khalīl records concrete and quasi-taboo uses: silm, a bucket with one handle; salm, a snakebite, with the bitten man euphemistically called maslūm or salīm — the euphemism itself ('may God keep him safe,' sallamahu Allāh) already presupposing the core sense of safety. Al-Jawharī's entry is dominated by onomastics (Salm, Salmā, the tribe Sulaym), showing the root's high productivity in proper names without adding new core sense. Al-Rāghib crystallizes the semantic center: salāma is freedom from apparent and hidden ills — qalb salīm (Q 26:89) for the inward heart free of corruption, and 'musallama lā shiyata fīhā' (Q 2:71) for an outwardly unblemished animal — and cites God 'keeping safe' (sallama, Q 8:43) and entry 'in safety, secure' (bi-salāmin āminīn, Q 15:46). Ibn Manẓūr extends the root to a social-legal sense: tasallama minhu, 'he disassociated himself from him,' and reads Q 25:63's 'qālū salāman' — via Sībawayh — not as the greeting but as tasallum, a disclaiming formula of peaceable non-engagement, since the verse predates the command to greet polytheists; Ibn ʿArafa glosses it as 'words entailing neither wrong nor sin.' Lane's summary — 'to be or become safe, secure, or free from evils, from trial, from affliction' — confirms this as the stable semantic base beneath the onomastic, theological, and social extensions.

    Draws on: al-Khalīl · al-Jawharī · Ibn Fāris · al-Rāghib · Ibn Manẓūr · Lane

    • al-ʿAyn, s.v. s-l-m
    • al-Ṣiḥāḥ, s.v. s-l-m
    • Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, s.v. s-l-m
    • al-Rāghib, al-Mufradāt, s.v. s-l-m
    • Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, s.v. s-l-m
    • Lane, Lexicon, s.v. salima
  • Letters & soundIn the given celestial correspondences, sīn is linked to 'what appears in water,' lām to the third heaven, and mīm to the human being.speculative

    What the theorists of sound symbolism would say of these letters. Speculative by nature.

    In the given celestial correspondences, sīn is linked to 'what appears in water,' lām to the third heaven, and mīm to the human being. Al-Dabbāgh's letter-meanings read sīn as indicating the comely thing whose nature is delicacy, lām as the speaker's attainment of something great (and an indication of greatness generally), and mīm as all created beings. A speculative reading of s-l-m as 'the delicate thing (sīn), attaining greatness (lām), for all created beings (mīm)' is available on this scheme, resonant with salām as a state granted to creatures, but this is mnemonic resonance, not linguistic evidence; mainstream historical linguistics does not recognize sound-symbolic value at the single-letter level as explanatory.

    Draws on: Ibn ʿArabī celestial correspondences · al-Dabbāgh letter-meanings

    • Ibn ʿArabī, celestial letter correspondences (as supplied)
    • al-Dabbāgh, letter-meanings on fatḥa (as supplied)
  • Root structureIbn Fāris's s-l-* chapter siblings scatter across unrelated senses — slw (ease of life), slt (scraping/peeling), slj (swallowing), slḥ (weapon), slkh (skinning), sls (smoothness/ease), slʿ (splitting open), slgh (irregular, by substitution of ṣ), slf (precedence) — so the bare s-l nucleus carries no demonstrable shared charge;uncertain

    The two-letter nucleus (Ibn Fāris's own chapters) and the permutations of the letters (Ibn Jinnī).

    Ibn Fāris's s-l-* chapter siblings scatter across unrelated senses — slw (ease of life), slt (scraping/peeling), slj (swallowing), slḥ (weapon), slkh (skinning), sls (smoothness/ease), slʿ (splitting open), slgh (irregular, by substitution of ṣ), slf (precedence) — so the bare s-l nucleus carries no demonstrable shared charge; the chapter is an alphabetic grouping, not a semantic family. Among the six permutations, slm itself dominates by frequency (140 occurrences), while sml is attested but rare and means 'weakness, paucity' — a near-antonym reached by a mere letter-swap; lms (5 occurrences) means 'to seek by touch,' and its metathesis mls means 'smoothness, that to which nothing clings' — an intriguing opposition (grasping/touching versus nothing sticking) that Ibn Jinnī's greater-derivation method would flag as suggestive. lsm and msl survive only as irregular or augmented forms (ibdāl, or masīl with an augmented mīm). All of this is offered as juxtaposition of attested forms, not as an asserted etymological chain.

    Draws on: Ibn Fāris nucleus siblings · permutations · Ibn Jinnī greater derivation

  • Semitic kin & loanwordsThis is a pan-Semitic root with strong, confident cognates: Hebrew shālōm, Aramaic/Syriac shlāmā, Akkadian šalāmu/šulmu, and Geʿez salām all carry the core sense of wholeness, well-being, and peace.well attested

    Cognates in the sister languages, and whether the word was borrowed.

    This is a pan-Semitic root with strong, confident cognates: Hebrew shālōm, Aramaic/Syriac shlāmā, Akkadian šalāmu/šulmu, and Geʿez salām all carry the core sense of wholeness, well-being, and peace. This is inherited common Semitic vocabulary rather than a case of borrowing in either direction; Arabic salām/silm/islām sit squarely within this shared inheritance rather than as a loanword from any one of these languages.

    Draws on: Hebrew · Aramaic/Syriac · Akkadian · Geʿez

    • Brown–Driver–Briggs, s.v. שָׁלוֹם
    • Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon, s.v. shlm (root)
  • Quranic exegesisAt Q 2:112, 'man aslama wajhahu li-llāh' is read by al-Ṭabarī and al-Zamakhsharī as sincere, exclusive submission of the whole self to God, aslama here carrying full theological weight rather than mere linguistic 'safety.' At Q 2:128–132, in Abraham's prayer ('waj'alnā muslimayni laka';well attested

    How the classical exegetes read the word in the Quran.

    At Q 2:112, 'man aslama wajhahu li-llāh' is read by al-Ṭabarī and al-Zamakhsharī as sincere, exclusive submission of the whole self to God, aslama here carrying full theological weight rather than mere linguistic 'safety.' At Q 2:128–132, in Abraham's prayer ('waj'alnā muslimayni laka'; 'aslamtu li-Rabbi l-ʿālamīn'), islām is read by al-Rāzī and others as submission to the one Lord specifically, tying the term to the pure Abrahamic ḥanīfiyya prior to any later communal label. At Q 4:94, the phrase 'liman alqā ilaykum al-salām/al-salam' generates a recorded exegetical dispute — al-Ṭabarī preserves both readings — over whether al-salām denotes simply the greeting of peace or, on the variant vocalization al-salam, the profession of islām itself, i.e. that the person has already submitted; the ambiguity is treated as consequential for the ruling on whether such a person may be attacked in battle.

    Draws on: al-Ṭabarī · al-Zamakhsharī · al-Rāzī · sample verses

  • Philosophy & kalāmIslām/īmān is a central kalām distinction: the mutakallimūn (early Ashʿarīs and others) generally treat islām as outward submission and adherence to the legal/ritual obligations, and īmān as inward assent (taṣdīq) of the heart, debating whether the two coincide or diverge — a debate with real stakes for the status of the nominal Muslim who lacks inner conviction.well attested

    The word as a technical term in falsafa and theology.

    Islām/īmān is a central kalām distinction: the mutakallimūn (early Ashʿarīs and others) generally treat islām as outward submission and adherence to the legal/ritual obligations, and īmān as inward assent (taṣdīq) of the heart, debating whether the two coincide or diverge — a debate with real stakes for the status of the nominal Muslim who lacks inner conviction. Al-Ghazālī, drawing on the ḥadīth of Jibrīl, arranges islām, īmān, and iḥsān as ascending grades of religious commitment rather than synonyms. Separately, al-Salām as one of the divine names is explained via Ibn Fāris's etymology: God is al-Salām because He is free (sālim) from the defect, deficiency, and perishing that attach to created things, and 'the abode of al-salām' (dār al-salām) is Paradise, itself free from such defects — a theological extension of the root's basic sense of freedom from harm.

    Draws on: kalām · islām/īmān distinction · divine names

    • Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, s.v. s-l-m (on al-Salām as divine name)
    • al-Ghazālī on islām/īmān/iḥsān, general kalām discussion
Neighbouring rootsThe roots that share letters with this one, as a map you can open out