سحن

سَحْنَةٌ ذ and ↓ سَحَنَةٌ, (L, K,) or the latter, and, as sometimes pronounced, سَحْنَةٌ, (S,) and ↓ سَحْنَاآءُ and ↓ سَحَنَاآءُ, (S, L, K,) pronounced سَحَنَاآءُ by Fr, the only person heard by A'Obeyd to pronounce it thus, and said by Ibn-Keysán to be thus pronounced because of the faucial letter, (S, L,) but ↓ سَحْنَاآءُ is better, (L,) Aspect, appearance, or external state or condition: (S, L, K:) and simply state, or condition: (L:) and colour: and softness, or smoothness, of the external skin: and i. q. نَعْمَةٌ [as meaning softness, or delicateness: in the CK. النِّعْمَةُ is erroneously put for النَّعْمَةُ]. (L, K.) You say, اـِنَّهُ لَحَسَنُ السَّحْنَةِ (L) and ↓ السَّحْنَاآءِ (S, L) [ Verily he is goodly in aspect, &c.]: and ↓ هٰؤُلَاآءِ قَوْمٌ حَسَنٌ سَحَنَتُهُمْ [ These are a people, or party, whose aspect, &c., is goodly ]. (S, L.) And سَحْنَةٌ is also expl. as signifying The beauty of the hair, and of the complexion, and of the external skin, of a man. (L.) And it occurs in a trad. as meaning The external skin of the face; and is sometimes pronounced ↓ سِحْنَةٌ, and is also called the ↓ سَحْنَاآء. (L.)