# سلاح
## Arabic
### Etymology

Cognate with Biblical Hebrew שֶׁלַח (šɛlaḥ, “dagger, short sword”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /si.laːħ/
** (Moroccan) IPA: /slaːħ/

### Noun

سِلَاح • (silāḥ) m (plural أَسْلِحَة (ʔasliḥa))
* weapon, arm
** 2020 December 10, Al Jazeera‎, archived from the original on 4 January 2021:مَدَّدَتِ ٱلْحُكُومَةُ ٱلْأَلْمَانِيَّةُ […] ٱلْحَظْرَ ٱلْمَفْرُوضَ عَلَى تَصْدِيرِ ٱلْأَسْلِحَةِ لِلْمَمْلَكَةِ ٱلْعَرَبِيَّةِ ٱلسَّعُودِيَّةِ حَتَّى نِهَايَةِ عَامِ 2021، وَذَٰلِكَ لِلْخَوْفِ مِنِ ٱسْتِخْدَامِ ٱلسِّلَاحِ فِي ٱلْحَرْبِ ٱلَّتِي تَقُودُهَا ٱلْمَمْلَكَةُ فِي ٱلْيَمَنِ.maddadati l-ḥukūmatu l-ʔalmāniyyatu […] l-ḥaẓra l-mafrūḍa ʕalā taṣdīri l-ʔasliḥati lilmamlakati l-ʕarabiyyati s-saʕūdiyyati ḥattā nihāyati ʕāmi 2021, waḏālika lilḵawfi mini stiḵdāmi s-silāḥi fī l-ḥarbi llatī taqūduhā l-mamlakatu fī l-yamani.The German government has decided to extend the ban on exporting weapons to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia till the end of 2021, fearing the weapons’ use in the war the Kingdom wages in Yemen.
* branch of the armed forces
* armor
* steel claw
* plowshare

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: սիլահ (silah)
* → Azerbaijani: silah
* → Classical Persian: سِلَاح (silāh), سلیح (selêh) (archaic)
** Tajik: силоҳ (siloh)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: सिला (silā)
    Urdu: سِلَاح (silāh)
** → Uzbek: siloh
* → Ottoman Turkish: سلاح (silah)
** Turkish: silah
** → Crimean Tatar: silâ
** → Albanian: silah
** → Aromanian: sileahe, sileafe, șileahe, cileahe
** → Bulgarian: силя́х (siljáh)
** → Greek: σιλάχι (siláchi)
** → Romanian: sileah, sileaf, seleaf
** → Serbo-Croatian: sìlāh / сѝла̄х
* → Swahili: silaha

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سِلَاح (silāḥ).

### Noun

سلاح • (silah) (plural اسلحه)
* weapon, arms
    سفربرلك وار عسكر اولانلر سلاح آلتنه سفربرلكك برنجی گنی [...]درseferberlik var asker olanlar silah altına seferberliğin birinci günü [...]dırThere is mobilization! Soldiers under the arms! First day of mobilization is [...]

#### Derived terms

* سلاحدار (silahdar)
* سلاحشور (silahşor)
* سلاحلی (silahlı)
* مسلح (musallah)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: silah
* → Crimean Tatar: silâ
* → Albanian: silah
* → Aromanian: sileahe, sileafe, șileahe, cileahe
* → Bulgarian: силя́х (siljáh)
* → Greek: σιλάχι (siláchi)
* → Romanian: sileah, sileaf, seleaf
* → Serbo-Croatian: sìlāh / сѝла̄х

### References

* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سلاح”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2647
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سلاح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1069
* Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “sileáhe”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 174

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* سلیح (selêh) (archaic)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سِلَاح (silāḥ).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [si.lɑːh]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sɪ.lɑːʱ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sɪ.lɑːʱ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sɪ.lɑː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [si.lɔː]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [se.lɒːʱ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [si.lɔʱ]

### Noun

سِلاح • (selâh) (plural سلاح‌ها (selâh-hâ) or اسلحه (aslahe))
* weapon
    Synonyms: جنگ‌افزار (jang-afzâr), یراق (yarâq)

#### Descendants

* Tajik: силоҳ (siloh)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: सिला (silā)
    Urdu: سِلَاح (silāh)
* → Uzbek: siloh

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سِلَاح (silāh), borrowed from Arabic سِلَاح (silāḥ).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /sɪ.lɑː/

### Noun

سِلاح • (silāh) f (formal plural اسلحہ, Hindi spelling सिला)
* weapon
* arms
* armor