سلس

Arabic

Root
س ل س (s-l-s)

Etymology

Compare سَلِسَ (salisa, to be obedient, to be docile, to be smooth (style)).

Adjective

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سَلِس • (salis) (feminine سَلِسَة (salisa), masculine plural سَلِسُونَ (salisūna), feminine plural سَلِسَات (salisāt), elative أَسْلَس (ʔaslas))

  1. docile, obedient, tame
  2. sociable, easygoing
  3. familiar
  4. flexible, smooth (style)
  5. ("modern") phlegmatic
  6. suffering from diabetes

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: səlis

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سلس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “سلس”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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