سهر
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaسَاهِرٌ ذ and ↓ سَهْرَانٌ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ سَهَّارٌ (K) and ↓ سُهَرَةٌ, (S, K,) the last of which is an intensive epithet, (S,) [and so is the third, and sometimes the second,] Waking, sitting up, sleepless, wakeful, or not sleeping, by night; (S, K;) [ abstaining from sleep by night; ] remaining awake all the night or a part thereof: (Msb:) and the last, [and third, and sometimes the second,] wakeful, or waking much, &c. (S.) You say, العَيْنِ ↓ رَجُلٌ سَهَّارُ A man whom sleep does not overcome. (Lh.) ― -b2- بَرْقٌ سَاهِرٌ (tropical:) Lightning gleaming, or glistening, during the night. (A.) ― -b3- لَيْلٌ سَاهرِ (tropical:) A night of waking or sleeplessness or wakefulness: (K:) like as one says لَيْلٌ نَائِمٌ. (TA.) ― -b4- سَاهِرَةُ العِرْقِ (assumed tropical:) A she-camel that yields milk long and abundantly. (TA.) ― -b5- عَيْنٌ سَاهِرَةٌ (tropical:) A running spring or fountain: (K:) a spring or fountain that runs night and day, unremittingly. (A, * TA.) It is said in a trad., خَيْرُ المَالِ عَيْنٌ سَاهِرَةٌ لِعَيْنٍ نَائِمَةٍ (tropical:) The best of property is a spring of water that runs night and day while its owner is sleeping; (TA;) its owner having his mind unoccupied by it. (A.) ― -b6- أَرْضٌ سَاهِرَةٌ (tropical:) Land that produces plants quickly: as though it passed the night doing so. (A.) ― -b7- Also سَاهِرَةٌ [alone], (tropical:) A wide, or an extensive, tract of land, the traverser of which remains awake during the night: (A:) or the earth, or land: (K:) or the surface of the earth: (Fr, Lth, S, K:) because it produces plants or herbage alike by night and day: (Ibn-Es-Seed:) so in the Kur lxxix. 14: (S:) or (TA, but in the K “ and ”) a desert, syn. فَلَاةٌ, (K,) the traverser of which remains awake during the night: (TA:) or (TA, but in the K “ and ”) an untrodden land: (K:) or (TA) a land which God will create anew on the day of resurrection: (K:) or a land on which none has disobeyed God: (Ibn-Es Seed:) or (TA) Hell: (Katádeh, K:) or (TA) [in the Kur ubi suprà] a certain mountain of Jerusalem: (Wahb Ibn-Munebbih, K:) or (TA) the land of Syria. (Mukátil, K.)
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