سيل

1 سَالَ ذ , (S, M, Msb, K,) said of water, (S, Msb, TA,) or of a thing, (M,) aor. يَسِيلُ, (Msb, K,) inf. n. سَيْلٌ and سَيَلَانٌ (S, M, Msb, K, TA) and مَسِيلٌ and مَسَالٌ, (TA,) It flowed, or ran: (M, K, TA:) or, said of water, it rose so as to become excessively copious, and flowed, or ran: and سال said of thing, it was, or became, fluid, or liquid; contr. of جَمَدَ. (Msb.) ― -b2- The Arabs say, سَالَ بِهِمُ السَّيْلُ وَجَاشَ بِنَا البَحْرُ [ The torrent flowed with them, and the sea estuated with us so as to be unnavigable; ] meaning, (assumed tropical:) they fell into a hard case, and we fell into one that was harder than it: (M, Meyd:) a proverb. (Meyd.) ― -b3- And سَالَتْ عَلَيْهِ الخَيْلُ (tropical:) [ The horsemen poured upon him ]. (TA. [See also 6.]) ― -b4- And سالت الغُرَّةُ (assumed tropical:) [ The blaze upon the face of a horse ] extended, or spread, long and wide: (S:) [or, simply, extended down the face; as appears from an explanation of the word شِمْرَاخٌ in the S and K &c.: see also سَائِلَةٌ, below. And in like manner سال is often said of flowing, or defluent, hair.] -A2- سِيلَ &c. for سُئِلَ, pass, of سَأَلَ: see this last word, in art. سأل.