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سقى

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

5 تسقّى ذ It (a thing) received, or admitted, moisture, (M, TA,) or irrigation; or became plentifully irrigated, or succulent, or sappy. (M, K, TA.) The Hudhalee (El-Mutanakhkhil, TA) says. مُجَدَّلٌ يَتَسَقَّى جِلْدُهُ دَمَهُ كَمَا تَقَطَّرَ جِذْعُ الدَّوْمَةِ القُطُلُ meaning [ Thrown down upon the ground, his skin ] becomes drenched with his blood (يَتَشَرَّبُهُ) [ like as drips the severed trunk of the Theban palm-tree ]: or, as some relate the verse, يَتَكَسَّى [ becomes overspread, here meaning suffused ], from الكِسْوَةُ. (S, TA.) ― -b2- تَسَقَّتِ الاـِبِلُ الحَوْذَانَ (assumed tropical:) The camels ate the حوذان (a certain plant, TA) in its fresh and moist state, and became fat upon it. (K.)

Derived headwords

تسقّىverb
  1. 1.
مُجَدَّلٌ يَتَسَقَّى جِلْدُهُ دَمَهُ
كَمَا تَقَطَّرَ جِذْعُ الدَّوْمَةِ القُطُلُ
تَسَقَّتِ الاـِبِلُ الحَوْذَانَ