# فصل
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* faṣl:(file)

#### Noun

فَصْل • (faṣl) m (plural فُصُول (fuṣūl))
* verbal noun of فَصَلَ (faṣala) (form I)
* separation, division, partition
* decision
* incision
* season
* chapter, paragraph, division
* class (group of students)
* joint
* interstice, gap
* point
* difference
* sagacity

##### Derived terms

* ضَمِير الْفَصْل (ḍamīr al-faṣl, “third-person pronoun used as a copula”)

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: fəsil
* → Malay: fasal
** Indonesian: pasal
* → Persian: فصل
** → Hindi: फ़सल (fasal)
** → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਫ਼ਸਲ (fasal)
    Shahmukhi script: فصل (fasl)
* → Tajik: фасл (fasl)
* → Ottoman Turkish: فصل
** → Turkish: fasıl
* → Turkmen: pasyl
* → Uyghur: پەسىل (pesil)
* → Uzbek: fasl

##### See also

Seasons in Arabic · فُصُول (fuṣūl) (layout · text) · category :
| رَبِيع (rabīʕ, “spring”) | صَيْف (ṣayf, “summer”) | خَرِيف (ḵarīf, “autumn”) | شِتَاء (šitāʔ, “winter”) |

#### Adjective

فَصْل • (faṣl) (invariable)
* conclusive, decisive (speech)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Verb

فَصَلَ • (faṣala) I (non-past يَفْصِلُ (yafṣilu), verbal noun فَصْل (faṣl))
* to separate, to divide
* to judge between (+بَيْنَ (bayna))
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 32:25:إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ يَفْصِلُ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فِيمَا كَانُوا فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَʔinna rabbaka huwa yafṣilu baynahum yawma l-qiyāmati fīmā kānū fīhi yaḵtalifūna(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* to fire (from a job)

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

فَصَلَ • (faṣala) I (non-past يَفْصِلُ (yafṣilu), verbal noun فِصَال (fiṣāl))
* to wean

##### Conjugation
#### Verb

فَصَلَ • (faṣala) I (non-past يَفْصُلُ (yafṣulu), verbal noun فُصُول (fuṣūl))
* to go away, to leave

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

فَصَّلَ • (faṣṣala) II (non-past يُفَصِّلُ (yufaṣṣilu), verbal noun تَفْصِيل (tafṣīl))
* (transitive) to detail

##### Conjugation
### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “فصل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “فصل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “فصل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَصْل (faṣl). Displaced native هنگام (hangâm, “season”) and فرگرد (fargard, “chapter”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [fasl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [fäsl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [fäsl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [fäsl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [fäsl̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [fæsl̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [fäsl]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

فصل • (fasl) (plural فصول (fosul) or فصل‌ها (fasl-hâ))
* season
    فصل بهار ― fasl-e bahâr ― season of spring
* chapter
    فصل چهارم ― fasl-e čahârom ― fourth chapter
* settling, resolving (a problem, a question)
    حل و فصل مشکلات منطقه‌ایhall o fasl-e moškelât-e mantaqe'isolving and resolving regional issues
* (scholastic logic) differentia

#### Descendants

* → Hindi: फ़सल (fasal)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਫ਼ਸਲ (fasal)
    Shahmukhi script: فصل (fasl)

#### See also

Seasons in Persian · فَصْل (fasl) (layout · text) · category :
| بَهار (bahâr, “spring”) | تابِسْتان (tâbestân, “summer”) | پاییز (pâyiz, “autumn”) | زِمِسْتان (zemestân, “winter”) |

### See also

* seasons: صل‌ها (fasl-hâ): بهار (bahâr) · تابستان (tâbestân) · پاییز (pâyiz) · زمستان (zemestân)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Pronunciation 1

* IPA: /fa.sˤal/, [ˈfɑ.sˤɑl]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Etymology

From Arabic فَصَلَ (faṣala).

#### Verb

فصل • (faṣal) I (present بفصل (bifṣil))
* to separate, to disconnect
    بعرف إنّه مزعج إنّه فصلو الأصحاب عن بعض بالمدرسة.baʕref ʔinno muzʕej ʔinno faṣalu il-ʔaṣḥāb ʕan baʕḍ bil-madraseI know it's upsetting that they've separated friends from each other at school.
* to dismiss, to fire (from work)
    Synonyms: عزل (ʕazal), صرف (ṣaraf), وقّف شغله (waʔʔaf šuḡlo)

##### Conjugation
### Pronunciation 2

* IPA: /fasˤ.sˤal/, [ˈfɑsˤ.sˤɑl]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Etymology

From Arabic فَصَّلَ (faṣṣala).

#### Verb

فصّل • (faṣṣal) II (present بفصّل (bifaṣṣel))
* to detail

##### Conjugation
### Pronunciation 3

* IPA: /fasˤl/, [ˈfɑ.sˤ(ɪ)l]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

#### Etymology 1

From Arabic فَصْل (faṣl). Equivalent to the verbal noun of فصل (faṣal, “to dismiss; to separate”) .

##### Noun

فصل • (faṣl) m
* dismissal, expulsion
* separation

#### Etymology 2

From Arabic فَصْل (faṣl).

##### Noun

فصل • (faṣl) m (plural فصول (fṣūl))
* season
* chapter, section
* act (of a play)

##### See also

Seasons in South Levantine Arabic · فصول (fṣūl) (layout · text) · category :
| ربيع (rabīʕ, “spring”) | صيف (ṣēf, “summer”) | خريف (ḵarīf, “autumn”) | شتا (šita, “winter”) |