سرح

سَرْحٌ ذ Cattle, or camels &c., pasturing, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) or pasturing where they please, by themselves: (S, A, K:) or only such as are sent, or driven, forth [ to pasture ] in the morning, and brought, or driven, back in the evening to their nightly resting-place: (L:) an inf. n. used as a subst. (Mgh, Msb.) A'Obeyd says that سَرْحٌ and ↓ سَارِحٌ and ↓ سَارِحَةٌ signify Cattle, or camels &c.: and Khálid Ibn-Jembeh says that ↓ سَارِحَةٌ means camels and sheep or goats: and a single beast; as well as a collection [ of beasts ]. (TA.) -A2- Also A certain kind of trees, of great size, (S, K, TA,) and tall, (S, TA,) not depastured, or seldom eaten by the camels &c., but used for their shade: they grow in Nejd, in plain, or soft, and in rugged ground, but not in sand nor upon a mountain; and have a yellow fruit: (TA:) n. un. with ة: and it is said to be the same as the اآء: (S:) but this is a mistake; the fact being that it bears a kind of berry termed اآء, (K, TA,) resembling the olive: (TA:) or any trees without thorns: (K:) n. un. in this sense with ة: (Fr, Ham p. 603, TA:) or any tall trees: (K:) or [ trees ] of the kind called عِضَاه, great, with spreading branches, beneath which men alight in the صَيْف [or summer ]: (Ham ubi suprà:) accord. to AHn, the سَرْحَة is a great tree with spreading branches, beneath which people often alight, widely extending; men alight beneath it in the صَيْف [or summer ], and pitch tents, or build houses, beneath it; and its shade is good: accord. to information given to Az by an Arab of the desert not known by him to have uttered a lie, it has a dusty colour, is not so tall as the أَثْل [a species of tamarisk], has small leaves, and lank branches, or twigs, and always grows slanting, its inclination among all the trees being towards the south (اليَمِين): Lth says that the سَرْح are a kind of trees that have a fruit, and they are the أَلَاآء (الالاآء [app. a mistranscription for الاآء, i. e. the اآء,]); but Az says that this is a mistake: Lth cites the saying of' Antarah, بَطَلٌ كَأَنَّ ثِيَابَهُ فِى سَرْحَةٍ تُحْذَى نِعَالُ السِّبْتِ لَيْسَ بِتَوْءَمِ (L,) i. e. He is a man of valour, tall of stature, as though his clothes were upon a great tree such as is called سرحة; sandals of سبت [q. v.] are cut and made for him, such as are worn by the kings; and he is not a twin; so that he has been well suckled: (EM p. 245:) thus he describes this person as tall of stature, showing that the سرحة is a large tree: but the الاآء [or اآء] has no trunk nor tallness: IAar says that the سَرْح are ذَكْوَان that have become large; and the ذكوان are certain trees having beautiful [shoots such as are termed] عَسَالِيج: the pl. is سِرَاحٌ. (L.) ― -b2- The n. un., سَرْحَةٌ, is applied to signify (tropical:) A man's wife, (S, A,) by a metonymy. (S.) The Arabs are said by Az to term a woman, or wife, a سَرْحة growing over water, because in this case it is in the most beautiful condition. (TA.) ― -b3- [Accord. to Forskål, (Flora Aegypt. Arab. pp. cvi. and 68,) the name of سرح is applied to a plant of the class pentandria, which he terms Cadaba farinosa, (described by him in p. 68,) growing in the lower region of the mountains of Wádee-Surdud, in Tihámeh.] -A3- Also The exterior court or yard of a house, (K,) or, as in the L, of a gate, or door. (TA.)