سرى

سَارِيَةٌ ذ A party, or company of men, journeying by night. (Er-Rághib, TA.) ― -b2- And A cloud that comes by night: (S, Msb:) or clouds that travel by night: (K:) or a cloud that is between that which comes in the early morning and that which comes in the evening: [perhaps thus termed as having previously travelled in the night:] or, accord. to Lh, a rain that comes in the night: (M, TA:) pl. سَوَارِى [app. a mistranscription for سَوَارٍ, being indeterminate]. (K, TA.) ― -b3- One says, جَاآءَ صَبِيحَةَ سَارِيَةٍ He came in the morning of a night in which was rain. (TA.) ― -b4- And the pl. السَّارِيَاتُ signifies The asses: (M:) or the wild asses: (TA:) because they rest not by night: (M:) or because they pasture by night. (TA.) -A2- Also A column, syn. أُسْطُوَانَةٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) of stone, or of baked bricks; so in the “ Bári': ” (TA:) pl. سَوَارٍ. (Mgh.) ― -b2- [And A mast: see حَنَّ and صَرَّ: and see also صَارِيَةٌ.]