ف ص ل

An extension of ف ص ص (f-ṣ-ṣ) dating to Central Semitic. Compare later development of ح ص ل (ḥ-ṣ-l) from ح ص ص (ḥ-ṣ-ṣ) and even later قَصَلَ (qaṣala).

ف ص ل • (f-ṣ-l)

1. related to shedding, separation

Verbs

• Form I: فَصَلَ (faṣala, “to shed”)
  • Verbal noun: فَصْل (faṣl)
  • Active participle: فَاصِل (fāṣil)
  • Passive participle: مَفْصُول (mafṣūl)
• Form II: فَصَّلَ (faṣṣala, “to subdivide”)
  • Verbal noun: تَفْصِيل (tafṣīl)
  • Active participle: مُفَصِّل (mufaṣṣil)
  • Passive participle: مُفَصَّل (mufaṣṣal)
• Form III: فَاصَلَ (fāṣala, “to secede from”)
  • Verbal noun: مُفَاصَلَة (mufāṣala), فِصَال (fiṣāl)
  • Active participle: مُفَاصِل (mufāṣil)
  • Passive participle: مُفَاصَل (mufāṣal)
• Form VII: اِنْفَصَلَ (infaṣala, “to detach, to secede”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْفِصَال (infiṣāl)
  • Active participle: مُنْفَصِل (munfaṣil)
• Form VIII: اِفْتَصَلَ (iftaṣala, “to ablactate; to transplant”)
  • Verbal noun: اِفْتِصَال (iftiṣāl)
  • Active participle: مُفْتَصِل (muftaṣil)
  • Passive participle: مُفْتَصَل (muftaṣal)

Nouns

• فَصْلَة (faṣla, “a single act of separation”)
• فِصْلَة (fiṣla, “extract, offprint”)
• فَصِيل (faṣīl, “weaned camel”); pl. فِصَال (fiṣāl)
• فَصِيلَة (faṣīla, “offshoot, faction”); pl. فَصَائِل (faṣāʔil)
• مَفْصِل (mafṣil, “joint”); pl. مَفَاصِل (mafāṣil)
• اِنْفِصَالِيَّة (infiṣāliyya, “separatism”)
• فَصَّال (faṣṣāl, “always plauding”)
• فَاصِلَة (fāṣila, “mussel which parts into two; interval; a kind of metrical foot”)
• فَيْصَل (fayṣal), فَيْصَلِيّ (fayṣaliyy, “arbiter”)

Adjectives

• مَفْصِلِيّ (mafṣiliyy, “joint-related”)
• اِنْفِصَالِيّ (infiṣāliyy, “separatist”)

• "ف ص ل" in The Quranic Arabic Corpus
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 970
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ف ص ل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 352–353

ف ص ل • (transliteration needed)

1. Related to separation

Verbs and verb forms

• Form I: فصل (faṣal, “to separate; to dismiss”)
  • Noun Form: فصل (faṣl, “separation; dismissal; season, section”)
  • Active Participle: فاصل (fāṣel)
• Form II: فصّل (faṣṣal, “to detail”)
  • Noun Form: تفصيل (tafṣīl, “detail”)
  • Passive Participle: مفصّل (mfaṣṣal, “detailed”)
• Form III: فاصل (fāṣal, “to bargain”)
• Form VII: انفصل (infaṣal, “to be separated”)
  • Passive Participle: منفصل (minfaṣal, “separate”)

Nouns

• فاصلة (fāṣle, “comma”)
• فصّالة (faṣṣāle, “hinge”)
• مفصل (mafṣal, “joint”)