سلق

From the root س ل ق‎ (s-l-q). Cognate with Aramaic שְׁלַק‎ /‎ ܫܠܰܩ‎ (‍šlaq, “to boil”), whereas Ge'ez ተሳለቀ (täsaläḳä, “to scoff at”) is unrelated but the source of the Qurʾānic use for verbal “bashing” and related by metathesis to the Ugaritic 𐎖𐎍𐎕 (qlṣ, “to scorn”), Hebrew קִלֵּס‎ (qilles, “to mock”) > Arabic قَلَّسَ‎ (qallasa, “to mock”).

سَلَقَ • (salaqa) I, non-past يَسْلُقُ‎‎ (yasluqu)

1. to thrust, to prostrate, to pierce, to push, to repel
2. to hurt, to gall, to flay, to lash, to assault
   1. to hurt verbally, to taunt
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 33:19:

        ‏فَإِذَا جَاءَ الْخَوْفُ رَأَيْتَهُمْ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيْكَ تَدُورُ أَعْيُنُهُمْ كَالَّذِي يُغْشَىٰ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الْمَوْت فَإِذَا ذَهَبَ الْخَوْفُ سَلَقُوكُم بِأَلْسِنَةٍ حِدَادٍ‎

        faʾiḏā jāʾa l-ḵawfu raʾaytahum yanẓurūna ʾilayka tadūru ʾaʿyunuhum kāllaḏī yuḡšā ʿalayhi mina l-mawt faʾiḏā ḏahaba l-ḵawfu salaqūkum biʾalsinatin ḥidādin

        And when fear comes, you see them looking at you, their eyes revolving of he who to whom death comes. But when fear departs, they lash you with sharp tongues

3. to boil without adding any seasoning
4. to remove animal's feathers (by boiling it)
5. to enkindle, to ignite
6. to climb (a wall, etc)

From Classical Syriac ܣܠܩܐ‎ (silqā, selqā), from Aramaic סילקא‎, ultimately from Ancient Greek σικελικον (sikelikon, literally “the Sicilian one”); cognate with Neo-Babylonian 𒌑𒋛𒅋𒋡 (/silqu/) itself a loan word from Aramaic, also a doublet of شَلْجَم‎ (šaljam) through an Iranian loan.

سِلْق • (silq) m

1. chard (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris)

   Hypernyms: بَنْجَر‎ (banjar), شَمَنْدَر‎ (šamandar)

• → Middle Armenian: սիլխ (silx)
• → Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: silq, silk

  Central Kurdish: سڵق‎ (sillq)

  Southern Kurdish: سڵق‎ (sillq), زڵق‎ (zillq)

• “سلق” in Almaany
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 143
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “سلق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 344
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “سلق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1409–1410
• Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 346–352
• Margoliouth, David Samuel (1939), “Some Additions to Professor Jeffery’s Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾan”, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, issue 1, DOI:10.2307/25201836, pages 60–61
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “سلق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 589
• Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 58