saḥḥ

flowing, streaming

سَحّ

Word

Noun

Root

س ح ح

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وأما انقسام هذه الثلاثة على هذا فليكون فضاء العالم غاصّا بالطّرف والوسط والأفق وليكون سحّا بالغا من المصدر إلى المورد.

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • سَحَّ Form I He poured out, or forth
    , (S, A, TA,) aor. , (S, TA,) inf. n. سَحٌّ, (S, K, &c.,) He poured out, or forth, (S, A, K,) water, (S, A,) &c.: (S:) or, accord. to IDrd, سَحٌّ signifies the pouring out, or forth, in consecutive quantities: or, accord. to the Msb, [but this art. is not in my copy of that work,] the pouring forth much, or abundantly; and the like is said in the Jámi' of Kz. (TA.) You say also, سَحَّتِ السَّمَآءُ مَطَرَهَا [The sky poured forth its rain]. (A, TA.) See also an ex. of the inf. n. voce سَحَّآءُ, below. ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, اِسْتَنْشَدْتُهُ قَصِيدَةً فَسَحَّهَا عَلَىَّ (tropical:) [I asked him to recite an ode, and he poured it forth to me; lit., upon me], inf. n. as above. (A.) ― -b3- [Hence likewise,] سَحٌّ signifies also (assumed tropical:) The act of flogging. (K, TA.) One says, سَحَّهُ مِايأَةَ سَوْطٍ, (S, TA,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He inflicted upon him a hundred stripes of a whip. (S, TA.) ― -b4- And (assumed tropical:) The act of beating, striking, or smiting. (K.) ― -b5- And (assumed tropical:) The act of thrusting or piercing [with a spear or the like]. (TA.) -A2- سَحَّ, (S, A,) aor. , (S,) so says Fei, or, accord. to some, , agreeably with analogy, (TA,) inf. n. سَحٌّ (S, K) and سُحُوحٌ, (K,) or the former is the inf. n. of the trans. verb, and the latter is that of the intrans., (MF,) It flowed from above; (S, K;) [i. e. it flowed down;] said of water, (S,) and of rain, and of tears; (S, A;) as also ↓ تَسَحْسَحَ and ↓ تسحّح: (K:) or سَحَّ signifies, or signifies also, it poured out, or forth, vehemently: (TA:) and ↓ تسحسح, it flowed; said of water, (S, TA,) and of a thing. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] سَحَّتِ الشَّاةُ, (S, A, TA,) and البَقَرَةُ, (TA,) aor. تَسِحُّ, (S, TA,) or, accord. to Lh and Z, تَسُحُّ, (TA,) inf. n. سَحٌّ, (K,) or سُحُوحٌ, (S, A,) or both, (TA,) and سُحُوحَةٌ, (S, Ibn-Et-Teiyánee, TA,) (tropical:) The sheep or goat, and the animal of the ox-kind, became fat: (AZ, AHn, S, TA:) or became fat to the utmost degree: (K:) or became fat so as to flow with grease: (A:) or became fat, but not to the utmost degree. (TA.)
  • تَسَحَّ3َ Form V Open entry
    see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph.
  • انسحّ عَرَقًا Form VII It (a camel's arm-pit) poured with sweat
    It (a camel's arm-pit) poured with sweat. (TA.)
  • تَسَحْسَحَ Open entry
    : see 1, latter half, in two places.
  • سَحٌّ pouring abundantly and extensively
    Rain pouring abundantly and extensively: (K in art. سبط:) and ↓ سَحْسَاحٌ (S, K) and ↓ سَحْسَحٌ (K) rain pouring vehemently, (S, K, * TA,) paring the surface of the earth: (TA:) and ↓ سَحُوحٌ, applied to rain that falls in large drops, pouring much, or abundantly; and also applied to a thundering cloud, (حَنَّانَةٌ, i. e. سَحَابَةٌ فِيهَا رَعْدٌ, [or, accord. to the S and A, to any cloud, سَحَابَة,]) pouring forth much rain: (Ham p. 391: [in which it is said that in the latter case it may be proper; and in the former case, tropical:]) and ↓ عَيْنٌ سَحْسَاحَةٌ, so in a copy of the K, [and thus in my MS. copy of it,] in other copies ↓ سَحَّاحَةٌ, but the former is the right, (TA,) an eye pouring forth tears abundantly, or much: (K, TA:) and ↓ طَعْنَةٌ مُسَحْسِحَةٌ (S, TA) [a spear-wound, or the like,] flowing [with blood]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] حَلِفٌ سَحٌّ (assumed tropical:) A swearing in which oaths pour forth consecutively. (L.) -A2- Also (assumed tropical:) i. q. قَسْبٌ [i. e. Dry, or tough, dates, that crumble in the mouth and have hard stones]; (K:) Az relates his having heard the Bahránees thus term a certain kind of قَسْب: (TA:) or (tropical:) scattered dates: (A:) or (tropical:) dry, or tough, dates, (K, TA,) not sprinkled with water [in order that they may stick together, for thus they do for this purpose, or they sprinkle the palm-leaf-receptacle of the dates for this purpose], (TA,) scattered (K, TA) upon the ground, not collected in a receptacle, and not packed; (TA;) as also ↓ سُحٌّ, (IDrd, K,) which is of the dial. of El-Yemen. (IDrd.)
  • سُحٌّ Open entry
    : see what next precedes.
  • سَحَاحٌ air
    The air. (Fr, T, O, K.) [See also سُجَاحٌ, which is perhaps a mistranscription.]
  • سَحُوحٌ Open entry
    : see سَحٌّ.
  • سَحَّآءُ The right hand of God is continually pouring with gifts, nothing will render it deficient, night and day
    a fem. epithet, an instance of فَعْلَآءُ having no أَفْعَلُ, [i. e. not having أَسَحُّ for the masc. form], occurring in a trad., in which it is said, (TA,) يَمِينُ ٱللّٰهِ سَحَّآءُ لَا يَغِيضُهَا شَىْءٌ ٱللَّيْلَ وَ ٱلنَّهَارَ (A, TA) i. e. (tropical:) The right hand of God is continually pouring with gifts, nothing will render it deficient, night and day: or, as some relate it, the phrase is ↓ يَمِينُ ٱللّٰهِ مَلْأَى سَحًّا [the right hand of God is full, with pouring forth]; the last word being with tenween, as an inf. n.: it is thus likened to the abundant source that is not diminished by drawing from it, nor by descending into it and filling the bucket. (TA.) ― -b2- You say also غَارَةٌ سَحَّآءُ (A, TA) (tropical:) [An incursion into the territory of an enemy] that pours calamity upon people with sudden impetuosity. (TA.) ― -b3- [Golius explains سَحَّآءُ, on the authority of Meyd, as signifying (assumed tropical:) A hot wind: it is probably a mistranscription for سَخْنَآءُ.]
  • سَحَّاحَةٌ Open entry
    : see سَحٌّ.
  • سَحْسَحٌ Wide, or spacious
    : see سَحٌّ. ― -b2- Also, applied to land (أَرْضٌ), (assumed tropical:) Wide, or spacious: but IDrd says, I know not the truth of this. (TA.) -A2- Also, and ↓ سَحْسَحَةٌ, A court, or a spacious portion in which is no building or that is vacant, of a house, (S, K, TA,) and of a place of alighting, or of a settlement, or of a collection of houses or tents: the former expl. by IAar as meaning a man's quarter, or tract, in which he alights. (TA.)
  • سَحْسَحَةٌ Open entry
    : see what next precedes.

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