slla

Tashelhit

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ăslǝʔ (“to hear, to listen”)[1].

Cognate with Ghomara and Senhaja de Srair sell (“to listen, to hear”), Kabyle sel (“to listen”), Tarifit seř (“to hear”), Tuareg əsə́l (“to listen, to hear”), Tetserret ešla (“to hear”), Awjila əsə́l, àsəl (“to hear”), and Ghadames ăsl (“to listen”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slːa/

Verb

slla (intensive aorist slla or ttslla, verbal noun aslla, Tifinagh spelling ⵙⵍⵍⴰ, Arabic spelling سلّا)

  1. (intransitive) to hear, to listen
    Synonym: ssfld
    ايس تسلّات ي ووشّن؟ ― is tsllat i wuccn ― Did you hear the wolf?
    سلّايات ي الحَديث ― sllayat i lḥadit ― Listen (pl) carefully to the hadith.

Derived terms

  • aslla (“listening, hearing”)
  • wad isllan (“listener”)

References

  1. ^ Marijn van Putten (2016) The origin of front vowel nominal prefixes in Berber" Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft page 24 [[1]]
  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 3 m—š (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/3) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1997b
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