# صليب
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aramaic צְלִיבָא / ܨܠܻܝܒܳܐ (ṣəlīḇā), from Akkadian 𒁇 (/⁠ṣalāpu⁠/, “to cross out, to pervert; to give difficulty or be crooked, not be easy or straight”).

#### Noun

صَلِيب • (ṣalīb) m (plural صُلْبَان (ṣulbān) or صُلُب (ṣulub))
* cross (geometrical figure)
    اَلصَّلِيب اَلْجَنُوبِيّ ― aṣ-ṣalīb al-janūbiyy ― Southern Cross
* (also Christianity) cross, Cross, crucifix (post for crucifixion)
** 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 46:37:لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يَنْزِلَ فِيكُمُ ٱبْنُ مَرْيَمَ حَكَمًا مُقْسِطًا، فَيَكْسِرَ الصَّلِيبَ، وَيَقْتُلَ الْخِنْزِيرَ، وَيَضَعَ الْجِزْيَةَ، وَيَفِيضَ الْمَالُ حَتَّى لَا يَقْبَلَهُ أَحَدٌlā taqūmu s-sāʕatu ḥattā yanzila fīkumu bnu maryama ḥakaman muqsiṭan, fayaksira aṣ-ṣalība, wayaqtula l-ḵinzīra, wayaḍaʕa l-jizyata, wayafīḍa l-mālu ḥattā lā yaqbalahu ʔaḥadunThe hour will not arise until the son of Mary comes down upon you as a just ruler, and he will destroy the cross, and he will kill the swine, and abolish the jizya, and fortunes will overflow so that nobody will accept them as gifts.

##### Derived terms

* الصَّلِيب الأَحْمَر (aṣ-ṣalīb al-ʔaḥmar)
* صَلِيب مَعْقُوف (ṣalīb maʕqūf)

##### Related terms

* صَلَبَ (ṣalaba, “to crucify”)
* صَلَّبَ (ṣallaba, “to crucify; to make crossed”)
* صَلِيبِيّ (ṣalībiyy, “crusader”)
* صَلِيبِيَّة (ṣalībiyya, “crusade”)
* تَصَلَّبَ (taṣallaba, “to cross, to traverse”)
* اِسْتَصْلَبَ (istaṣlaba, “to demand to be crucified”)
* مَصْلَب (maṣlab, “place of crucifixion”)
* صَلِيبَة (ṣalība, “crossroads”)

##### Descendants

* Maltese: salib
* → Azerbaijani: səlib
* → Ge'ez: ሰሊብ (sälib)
* → Malay: salib
   * → Indonesian: salib
* → Persian: صلیب
   * Tajik: салиб (salib)
   * Punjabi: ਸਲੀਬ (salīb)
   * Hindi: सलीब (salīb)
   * Urdu: صلیب
   * Uzbek: salib
* → Ottoman Turkish: صلیب
** Turkish: salip
* → Swahili: msalaba
   * Kikuyu: mũtharaba

#### Adjective

صَلِيب • (ṣalīb) (feminine صَلِيبَة (ṣalība), masculine plural صَلْبَى (ṣalbā) or صَلِيبُونَ (ṣalībūna))
* crucified

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

صَلِيب • (ṣalīb) (masculine plural صُلْبَان (ṣulbān) or صُلُب (ṣulub), elative أَصْلَب (ʔaṣlab))
* hard, solid

##### Declension
#### Noun

صَلِيب • (ṣalīb) m (plural صُلُب (ṣulub))
* marrow, grease of bones

##### Declension
### References

* “ṣlyb”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* “ṣalāpu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎, volume 15, S, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1984, page 71
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “صليب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 840–841
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 276
* Freytag, Georg (1833) “صليب”, 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 511
* Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 197
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “صليب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1711–1713
* Vollers, Karl (1896) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 50, page 614
* Vollers, Karl (1896) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎ (in German), volume 50, page 614
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “صليب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 721

## Malay
### Noun

صليب (plural صليب-صليب or صليب٢, informal 1st possessive صليبکو, 2nd possessive صليبمو, 3rd possessive صليبڽ)
* Jawi spelling of salib‎

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic صَلِيب (ṣalīb).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sˤa.liːb/, [sˤɑˈliːb]
* Audio (Birzeit):(file)

### Noun

صليب • (ṣalīb) m (plural صلبان (ṣulbān))
* cross
* crucifix