Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سَالٌّ

Root: سل

Full Definition

سَالٌّ [act. part. n. of سَلَّ, Drawing out, or forth: &c.
2 Stealing: or stealing covertly, secretly, or clandestinely:] a thief; as also سَلَّالٌ [which is commonly applied in the present day to a horse-stealer and the like] and أَسَلُّ .

def.2 See also سَلِيلٌ.


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