حث

حَثَاثٌ حثاث and ↓ حِثَاثٌ Sleep; as also ↓ حَثْحَاثٌ and ↓ حُثْحُوثٌ. (TA.) You say, مَا ذُقْتُ حثاثًا I tasted not sleep. (TA.) And مَا ا@كْتَحَلْتُ حَثَاثًا and حِثَاثًا I slept not: (S, K:) As says the latter; but A 'Obeyd asserts the former to be the more correct: (S:) Th mentions both. (TA.) And مَا كَحَلْتُ عَيْنِى بِحثاثٍ I have not anointed my eye with sleep. (TA.) And مَا جَعَلْتُ فِى عَيْنِى حثاثًا [ I have not put any sleep into my eye ]; (A, TA;) meaning I have been very wakeful. (TA.) Or حثاث signifies Light, or little, sleep. (IDrst, TA.) It is related on the authority of an Arab of the desert that it signifies A little collyrium: and on the authority of El-Fihree, that it is syn. with بَرُودٌ, i. e. كُحْلٌ [ collyrium ]. (TA.) ― -b2- نَوْمٌ حَثَاثٌ or حِثَاثٌ Little sleep. (TA.) [See also حَثِيثٌ.]