sleeplessness, vigil

, aor. , inf. n. سَهَرٌ, He waked, was sleepless or wakeful, or did not sleep, by night; (S, K;) he abstained from sleep by night; (Lth;) he remained awake all the night or a part thereof: you say سَهِرَ اللَّيْلَ, or بَعْضَ اللَّيْلِ, He remained awake during the night, or a part of the night: (Msb:) [he passed the night, or a part of the night, sleepless, or without sleeping:] and سَهِرْتُ البَارِحَةَ I remained awake last night. (A.) ― -b2- مَالَهُ سَهِرَ وَعَهِرَ What aileth him? May he be sleepless by night, and may he grieve, or mourn, is an imprecation of the Arabs. (AZ, TA in this art. and art. عبر.) ― -b3- سَهِرَ البَرْقُ (tropical:) The lightning gleamed, or glistened, during the night. (A.)

signifies The being sleepless, or awake, with another: (KL, and Har p. 329:) [and the vying with another in remaining sleepless or awake:] and [like إِسْهَارٌ, but I think this doubtful,] the making [one] sleepless or awake. (KL.) ساهر النُّجُومَ means He passed the night sleepless like as do the stars. (Har ubi suprà.)

He, (S, Msb,) or it, (A,) as anxiety, or trouble of mind, and pain, (TA,) caused him to wake, to be sleepless, or wakeful, or to remain awake. (S, A, Msb, TA.)

: see سَاهُورٌ.

: see سَاهِرٌ.

: see سَاهِرٌ.

A state of waking; sleeplessness, or wakefulness; (K;) i. q. سُهَادٌ; (T;) as also ↓ سَاهُورٌ. (K.)

: see سَاهِرٌ, in two places.

and ↓ سَهْرَانٌ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ سَهَّارٌ (K) and ↓ سُهَرَةٌ, (S, K,) the last of which is an intensive epithet, (S,) [and so is the third, and sometimes the second,] Waking, sitting up, sleepless, wakeful, or not sleeping, by night; (S, K;) [abstaining from sleep by night;] remaining awake all the night or a part thereof: (Msb:) and the last, [and third, and sometimes the second,] wakeful, or waking much, &c. (S.) You say, العَيْنِ ↓ رَجُلٌ سَهَّارُ A man whom sleep does not overcome. (Lh.) ― -b2- بَرْقٌ سَاهِرٌ (tropical:) Lightning gleaming, or glistening, during the night. (A.) ― -b3- لَيْلٌ سَاهرِ (tropical:) A night of waking or sleeplessness or wakefulness: (K:) like as one says لَيْلٌ نَايأِمٌ. (TA.) ― -b4- سَاهِرَةُ العِرْقِ (assumed tropical:) A she-camel that yields milk long and abundantly. (TA.) ― -b5- عَيْنٌ سَاهِرَةٌ (tropical:) A running spring or fountain: (K:) a spring or fountain that runs night and day, unremittingly. (A, * TA.) It is said in a trad., خَيْرُ المَالِ عَيْنٌ سَاهِرَةٌ لِعَيْنٍ نَايأِمَةٍ (tropical:) The best of property is a spring of water that runs night and day while its owner is sleeping; (TA;) its owner having his mind unoccupied by it. (A.) ― -b6- أَرْضٌ سَاهِرَةٌ (tropical:) Land that produces plants quickly: as though it passed the night doing so. (A.) ― -b7- Also سَاهِرَةٌ [alone], (tropical:) A wide, or an extensive, tract of land, the traverser of which remains awake during the night: (A:) or the earth, or land: (K:) or the surface of the earth: (Fr, Lth, S, K:) because it produces plants or herbage alike by night and day: (Ibn-Es-Seed:) so in the Kur lxxix. 14: (S:) or (TA, but in the K “ and ”) a desert, syn. فَلَاةٌ, (K,) the traverser of which remains awake during the night: (TA:) or (TA, but in the K “ and ”) an untrodden land: (K:) or (TA) a land which God will create anew on the day of resurrection: (K:) or a land on which none has disobeyed God: (Ibn-Es Seed:) or (TA) Hell: (Katádeh, K:) or (TA) [in the Kur ubi suprà] a certain mountain of Jerusalem: (Wahb Ibn-Munebbih, K:) or (TA) the land of Syria. (Mukátil, K.)

fem. of سَاهِرٌ [q. v.]. ― -b2- See also سَاهُورٌ.

A certain perfume: [so called] because one is caused to be sleepless in preparing it, and making it good. (Sgh, K.)

: see سَهَارٌ. -A2- Also The sheath of the moon, (S, K,) which it enters when it is eclipsed, (TA,) accord. to the assertion of the Arabs; (S, TA;) as also ↓ سَاهِرَةٌ. (K.) One says, of the moon, when it is eclipsed, دَخَلَ فِى سَاهُورِهِ It has entered into its sheath. (Kt.) [Or] The shade, or shadow, of the سَاهِرَة, i. e., of the surface of the earth. (S, K.) ― -b2- The moon (K, TA) itself; as also ↓ سَهَرٌ; of Syriac origin, accord to IDrd. (TA.) ― -b3- The halo (دَارَة) of the moon: (K:) a Syriac word. (TA.) ― -b4- And السَّاهُورُ, The last nine nights of the lunar month: (K:) or so لَيَالِى السَّاهُورِ: because the moon is absent in its first part. (ISk.) ― -b5- Also سَاهُورٌ, The source of a spring of water. (K, * TA.) ― -b6- And Multitude; abundance. (K.)