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سلك

سلك

Arabic

Verb

سَلَكَ (salaka) I, non-past يَسْلُكُ‎ (yasluku)

  1. to follow a road, to wend, to travel along
  2. to enter upon a course
  3. to behave, to comport oneself
  4. to proceed, to act
  5. to set foot, to enter
Conjugation

Verb

سَلَكَ (salaka) I, non-past يَسْلُكُ‎ (yasluku)

  1. to insert
  2. to pass (through the eye of a needle), to thread
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Verb

سَلَّكَ (sallaka) II, non-past يُسَلِّكُ‎ (yusalliku)

  1. to clean, to clear
  2. to unreel, to unwind, reel off (thread or silk)
  3. to wind (thread) upon a reel or skein
  4. to clarify, to unravel, to disentangle
  5. to put money into currency
  6. to introduce a custom
Conjugation
References
  • سلك” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), سلك”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), سلك”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

سِلْك (silk) m (plural اَسْلَاك (aslāk))

  1. thread
  2. string (also of a musical instrument)
  3. line
  4. wire
  5. rail
  6. organization, body, profession, corps, cadre
Declension

Etymology 4

Noun

سَلْك (salk) m

  1. verbal noun of سَلَكَ (salaka) (form I)
Declension