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سرح

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

2 سَرَّحَ see above, in four places. ― -b2- تَسْرِيحٌ also signifies The dismissing a wife by divorcement. (S, K.) You say, سَرَّحَهَا He dismissed her by divorcement: (A, Msb:) from سَرَّحَ الاـِبِلَ [expl. above]. (Msb.) And He sent her forth from his abode; (Bd in xxxiii. 48;) or let her go free; (Jel ibid.;) meaning one to whom he had not gone in. (Bd and Jel ibid.) [See also سَرَاحٌ, below; a subst. used as a quasi-inf. n. of this verb.] ― -b3- [Also The putting, or sending, another away, far away, or far off; removing him far away; or alienating, or estranging, him: see Har p. 44.] ― -b4- And The act of removing, or clearing away: you say, سرّح عَنْهُ He removed, or cleared away, from him [grief or sorrow]; syn. فَرَّجَ. (L, TA.) ― -b5- [And The causing water to flow; or letting it flow. ] You say, سَرَّحُوا المَاآءَ فِى الخَنْدَقِ [ They caused the water to flow, or let it flow, into the moat ]; from سَرَّحَ الاـِبِلَ. (Mgh.) ― -b6- And The letting down, and loosing, the hair, (S, K,) before the combing: (S:) or the disentangling the hair: or the separating it with the comb: or the combing it: (Mgh:) or the combing down the hair; and disentangling it with the comb. (Az, TA.) You say, سَرَّحَتْ شَعْرَهَا (A) or الشَّعْرَ, inf. n. as above, (Msb,) She combed [&c.] her hair (A) [or the hair ]. ― -b7- [And it is used also in relation to poetry, or verses.] You say also, سرّح الشَّاعِرُ الشِّعْرَ [app. meaning The poet trimmed the poetry, or verses; as seems to be indicated by the context; for it is mentioned by Z immediately after what here precedes it]. (A.) ― -b8- And The act of facilitating, or rendering easy. (S, K.)

Derived headwords

سَرَّحَverb
  1. 1.
سَرَّحَ الاـِبِلَ
سرّح عَنْهُ
سَرَّحُوا المَاآءَ
فِى الخَنْدَقِ
سَرَّحَتْ شَعْرَهَا
سرّح الشَّاعِرُ الشِّعْرَ