سحل

1 سَحَلَهُ ذ , aor سَحَلَ , (K,) inf. n. سَحْلٌ, (S, TA,) He pared it; peeled it; or stripped off, scraped off, rubbed off, abraded, or otherwise removed, its outer covering or integument, or superficial part: or he pared, peeled, or stripped, it off: (S, K, TA:) this is the primary signification: (S:) and he filed it. (TA.) It is said in a trad., فَجَعَلَتْ تَسْحَلُهَا لَهُ, i. e. And she betook herself to paring off from it the flesh that was upon it for him: or, as some relate it, تَسْحَاهَا, which means the same. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] الرِّيَاحُ تَسْحَلُ الأَرْضَ (tropical:) The winds strip off what is upon the earth, (K, TA,) or the surface of the earth. (TA: and the like is said in the S.) ― -b3- And سَحَلَهُ مِائَةَ سَوْطٍ, (S, K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He struck him a hundred lashes, or strokes of a whip, (S, K, TA,) and pared off his skin, (TA,) or as though he pared off his skin. (S.) ― -b4- And سَحَلَ فُلَانٌ (assumed tropical:) Such a one reviled [another], and blamed [him: like as you say, قَشَرَ بِاللِّسَانِ]. (K. [See مِسْحَلٌ as meaning “ a tongue. ”]) One says, وَجَدَ النَّاسَ يَسْحَلُونَهُ (assumed tropical:) He found the people reviling him, (K, TA,) and blaming him, and speaking evil of him behind his back, or in his absence, or otherwise. (TA.) ― -b5- سَحَلْتُ الشَّىْءَ i. q. سَحَقْتُهُ [ I bruised, brayed, or pounded, the thing: or pulverized it: &c.]. (S.) ― -b6- سَحَلَ الثِّيَابَ He washed the clothes, [ beating them in doing so, ] and removed [or rubbed off ] from them the soils. (TA.) ― -b7- سَحَلْتُ الدَّرَاهِمَ I made the pieces of money smooth. (S.) Accord. to ISk, I poured out, or forth, the pieces of money; as though I rubbed them, one against another. (S.) [Or] سَحَلَ الدَّرَاهِمَ, aor. as above, (K,) and so the inf. n., (TA,) i. q. اِنْتَقَدَهَا [which signifies He picked the pieces of money, separating the good from the bad; or examined them to do so: and also he received the pieces of money ]. (K.) And سَحَلْتُهُ مِائَةَ دِرْهَمٍ I paid him a hundred dirhems in ready money. (S.) [Or] سَحَلَ الغَرِيمَ مِائَةَ دِرْهَمٍ He paid the creditor a hundred dirhems in ready money. (K.) -A2- سَحَلَ الثَّوْبَ, (K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) He wove the garment, or piece of cloth, of spun thread not formed of two twists: (K:) or he wove it without having twisted its warp [i. e. without having made its warp to consist of threads of two twists ]. (TA.) ― -b2- And سَحَلْتُ الحَبْلَ I formed the rope of a single twist; (S, TA;) and accord. to some, one says also ↓ أَسْحَلْتُهُ, but the former is the chaste expression. (TA.) [Hence,] سُحِلَتْ مَرِيرَةُ فُلَانٍ is said of one whose strength has become weakened; meaning (tropical:) His well-twisted rope, or rope of two twists, has become a rope of a single twist. (TA.) ― -b3- سَحَلَ القِرَاآءَةَ, inf. n. سَحْلٌ, He performed the reading, or recitation, in consecutive portions, continuously: and some relate it with ج [i. e. سَجَلَ]: سَحْلٌ is syn. with سَرْدٌ, signifying the making [a thing] to be consecutive in its parts, or portions. (TA.) ― -b4- بَاتَتِ السَّمَاآءُ تَسْحَلُ لَيْلَتَهَا (tropical:) The sky continued pouring forth water that night: (As, S, TA:) inf. n. as above. (TA.) ― -b5- And سَحَلَتِ العَيْنُ, (K,) aor. as above, (TA,) inf. n. سَحْلٌ and سُحُولٌ, (tropical:) The eye wept; (K;) poured forth tears. (TA.) -A3- سَحَلَ, aor. سَحِلَ (S, K) and سَحَلَ , (K,) inf. n. سَحِيلٌ and سُحَالٌ, (S, * K, [the latter inf. n. erroneously written in the CK سِحال,]) He (an ass) made a rolling sound in his chest; whence the ass of the desert is called ↓ مِسْحَلٌ: (S: [see also سَحِيلٌ below:]) he (a mule, K, and an ass, TA) brayed. (K, TA.)