Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

سَنِمٌ ذ A camel having a large سَنَام [or hump ]: (Lth, S, M, K:) fem. with ة. (Lth, TA.) ― -b2- Also A tall plant, of which the سَنَمَة, (S, K,) i. e. the head, resembling the ear of corn, (S,) or the blossom, (K,) has come forth. (S, K.) [And] سَنِمَةٌ signifies Any tree (شَجَرَة) that does not bear; its extremities having dried up, and become altered. (M. [In the TA, the word in this sense is said to be سَنَمَةٌ: but the former is app. the right reading.]) ― -b3- Also, (TA,) or سَنِمٌ عَلَى وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ, (S, in which it is only mentioned as said of water,) Water rising, or rising high, and appearing upon the surface of the earth. (TA.)

سَنَمَةٌ ذ The blossom (M, K) of a plant; (K;) i. e. (TA) the head thereof, resembling the ear of corn, (S, TA,) [or] it is of the طَرِيفَة [q. v.], not of the [herbs called] بَقْل: (M:) and signifies also the extremities [or an extremity ] of the صِلِّيَان, which are [or is ] shed thereby: (M, TA:) and the head of a tree [or plant] of the kind termed دِقّ [q. v.], in form like what is upon the head of the reed, or cane, except that it is soft, and the camels eat it in the manner termed خَضْمٌ [inf. n. of خَضَمَ, q. v.]: (TA:) [it is the n. un. of ↓ سَنَمٌ, the latter being a coll. gen. n., as is shown by what follows:] AHn says, some assert that the سَنَمَة is such of the produce of herbs as resembles the produce of the اـِذْخِر [q. v.] and the like; and such as the produce of the reed, or cane; and that the most excellent of the سَنَم are the سَنَم of a herb called the ↓ اـِسْنَامَة [n. un. of اـِسْنَامٌ]; and the camels eat it in the manner termed خَضْمٌ, because of its softness; or, as in some of the copies [of his work], the camels do not eat it. (M.)

سَنَامٌ ذ of the camel, (S,) of the he-camel and of the she-camel, [The hump; i. e.] the highest part of the back: (M, TA:) [ in substance, ] it is to the camel like the أَلْيَة [here meaning the fat of the tail ] to the sheep: (Msb:) pl. أَسْنِمَةٌ (S, M, Msb, K) [and app. أَسْنَامٌ also, as seems to be indicated by an explanation of this latter pl. in what follows]. Hence, in a trad., نِسَاآءٌ عَلَى رُؤُوسِهِنَّ كَأَسْنِمَةِ البُخْتِ [ Women upon whose heads are the like of the humps of the Bactrian camels ]; meaning such as wind the head-coverings as turbans upon their heads so as to enlarge them [in appearance] thereby. (TA.) [Hence, also, سَنَامُ النَّاقَةِ (assumed tropical:) The name of a star in the constellation of Cassiopea: mentioned by Freytag, with a reference to Ideler Untersuch. p. 84.] ― -b2- Also The highest, or highest part, of anything: (TA:) and the best, or choice part, (M, TA,) of anything; (TA;) because the سَنَام is the best, or the choice part, of what is in the camel. (M.) [Hence,] أَسْنِمَةُ الرِّمَالِ The protuberant, or elevated, parts of the sands; as being likened to the hump of the she-camel: (M, TA:) and أَسْنِمَةُ الرَّمْلِ the backs of the sands, that rise from the main portions thereof. (TA.) And سَنَامُ الأَرْضِ The بَحْر [q. v.] (S, TA [in some copies of the S نَحْر, perhaps correctly نَجْد, i. e. high, or elevated, part ]) of the land: (S, TA:) and the middle of the land. (S, K.) And سَنَامُ النَّعْلِ The rising part of the middle of the upper side of the sandal, which is in the place of the hollow of the foot. (Har p. 559.) And أَسْنَامُ نَارٍ The highest parts of a fire: (EM p. 156, and TA:) أَسْنَام being pl. of سَنَامٌ, which signifies the highest part of a thing. (EM ubi suprà.) And سَنَامُ المَجْدِ (assumed tropical:) The highest [of a people] in respect of glory. (TA.)

السُّنَّمُ ذ The ox, or cow; syn. البَقَرَةُ: (M, K:) or, as some say, the wild بَقَرَة. (TA.)

اـِسْنَامٌ ذ The fruit, or produce, of the حَلِىّ [q. v.]; (M, K, TA; [in the CK, of the حُلَيّا;]) mentioned by Seer on the authority of Aboo-Málik: (M:) n. un. with ة. (K.) And the latter signifies A certain herb: (see سَنَمَةٌ:) or a species of tree: pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] اـِسْنَامٌ. (M.)

تَسْنِيمٌ ذ [originally inf. n. of 2, q. v.,] A certain water in Paradise; so called because running above the elevated chambers (S, K *) and the pavilions: mentioned in the Kur lxxxiii. 27: (S:) or a certain fountain, or source, (عَيْنٌ,) in Paradise: so they assert; and this requires its being determinate, imperfectly decl.: or, accord. to Zj, a water coming upon them from above, from the elevated chambers: (M:) or a certain fountain, or source, coming upon them from above. (K [and in like manner Az explains it].)

أَرْضٌ مُسْنِمَةٌ ذ A land that gives growth to the اـِسْنَامَة, n. un. of اـِسْنَامٌ. (K, TA.)

مُسَنَّمٌ ذ A camel left unridden [ so that he is made to have a large hump ]. (K, * TA.) ― -b2- And قَبْرٌ مُسَنَّمٌ An elevated [or a gibbous ] grave: from السَّنَامُ. (Mgh.) ― -b3- And مَجْدٌ مُسَنَّمٌ (assumed tropical:) Great glory. (M, TA.)

1 سَنVهَ see 5, in two places.

3 سانههُ ذ , inf. n. مُسَانَهَةٌ and سِنَاهٌ; and سَاناهُ, inf. n. مُسَانَاةٌ; (K;) or عَامَلَهُ مُسُانَهَةً, and مُسَانَاةً; (Msb;) He made an engagement, or a contract, with him for work or the like, by the year: (K:) and اِسْتَأْجَرْتُهُ مُسَانَهَةً, and مُسَانَاةً, [ I hired him by the year: ] (S:) مُسَانَهَةٌ and مُسَانَاةٌ from السَّنَةُ are like مُعَاوَمَةٌ from العَامُ, and مُشَاهَرَةٌ from الشَّهْرُ, and مُرَابَعَةٌ from الرَّبِيعُ, &c. (TA in art. ربع.) ― -b2- سانهت النَّخْلَةُ The palm-tree bore one year and not another; (As, K;) as also عَاوَمَت. (As, TA.)

4 أَسْنَهَ In this form of the verb, the final radical letter is changed into ت, so that they say أَسْنَتُوا, meaning They experienced drought, or barrenness. (TA. [See also art. سنت.])

5 تَسَنَّهْتُ عِنْدَهُ ذ , (S,) and تَسَنَّيْتُ عنده, (S, Msb,) I remained, stayed, dwelt, or abode, with him, or at his abode, a year: (Msb:) both signify the same. (TA.) [See also 5 in art. سنو and سنى.] ― -b2- تسنّهت النَّخْلَةُ (assumed tropical:) The palm-tree underwent the lapse of years; (S, Msb;) as also ↓ سَنِهَت: (S:) and in like manner one says of other things. (Msb.) ― -b3- تسنّه said of food and of beverage, (Fr, S, TA,) (assumed tropical:) It became altered [ for the worse ]; as also ↓ سَنِهَ, aor. سَنَهَ , inf. n. سَنَهٌ: (TA:) or it became altered [ for the worse ] by the lapse of years: (Fr, S, TA:) and التَّسَنُّهُ in relation to bread and beverage &c. means the becoming mouldy, or musty, or spoiled. (S: and so in some copies of the K and in the TA: in other copies of the K, السَّنِهُ, like كَتِف, is put in the place of التَّسَنُّهُ; and المُتَكَرِّجُ in the place of the explanation التَّكَرُّجُ.) فَا@نْظُرْ اـِلَى طَعَامِكَ وَشَرَابِكَ لَمْ يَتَسَنَّهْ, in the Kur [ii. 261], means (assumed tropical:) [ But look at thy food and thy beverage, ] it has not become altered [ for the worse ] by the lapse of years: (Fr, S, TA:) Az says that this is the right way of reading, by pronouncing the ه in يتسنّه in pausing after it and in continuing without pausing: Ks used to suppress the ه in the latter case and to pronounce it in the former: and Aboo-'Amr EshSheybánee says that the original form [of يَتَسَنَّ] is يَتَسَنَّنْ; the like change being made in it as is made in تَظَنَّيْتُ [for تَظَنَّنْتُ] and in قَصَّيَتُ أَظْفَارِى [for قَصَّصْتُ اظفارى]. (TA. [See also 5 in art. سنو and سنى, last sentence.])

سَنَةٌ ذ a word of which the final radical letter is rejected, (S, Msb,) and of which there are two dial. vars., (Msb,) being, accord. to some, originally سَنْهَةٌ, (S, Msb,) like جَبْهَةٌ (S) or سَجْدَةٌ, (Msb,) and accord to others, سَنْوةٌ, (S, * Msb,) like شَهْوَةٌ, and upon each of these originals are founded modifications of the word, (Msb,) therefore it is mentioned in the K [and S and other lexicons] in the present art. and again in art. سنو, (TA,) A year; syn. حَوْلٌ; (Msb;) or عَامٌ: (M, K:) or, as Suh says, in the R, the سَنَة is longer than the عَام; the latter word being applied to the [twelve] Arabian months [collectively], and thus differing from the former word: (TA:) with the Arabs it consists of four seasons, mentioned before [in art. زمن, voce زَمَنٌ]: but sometimes it is tropically applied to (tropical:) a single فَصْل [or quarter ]; as in the saying, دَامَ المَطَرُ السَّنَةَ كُلَّهَا, meaning [ The rain continued ] during the فَصْل [or quarter, all of it ]: (Msb:) [see more in art. سنو and سنى:] the dim. is ↓ سُنَيْهَةُ (S, Msb) accord. to those who make the original of سَنَةٌ to be سَنْهَةٌ, (Msb,) and ↓ سُنَيَّةٌ (S, Msb) accord. to those who make the original of سَنَةٌ to be سَنْوَةٌ; (Msb;) and some say سُنَيْنَةٌ, but this is rare: (TA:) the pl. is سَنَهَاتٌ (Msb, K) accord. to those who make the original of سَنَةٌ to be سَنْهةٌ, (Msb,) and سَنَوَاتٌ (Msb, K) accord. to those who make the original of سَنَةٌ to be سَنْوَةٌ; (Msb;) and سِنُونَ also, (S, Msb, K,) like the masc. perfect pl., (Msb,) [agreeably with a rule applying to other cases of this kind,] with kesr, to the س, (S, TA,) and سِنِينَ [in the accus. and gen. cases], (Msb, TA,) so that one says, هٰذِهِ سِنُونَ [ These are years ], and رَأَيْتُ سِنِينَ [ I saw years ], (TA,) and the ن is elided when it is prefixed to another noun, governing the latter in the gen. case, (Msb,) and some say سُنُونَ, with damm to the س; (S, TA;) and in one dial., the ى is retained in all the cases, and the ن is made a letter of declinability, with tenween when the word is indeterminate, [so that one says سِنِينٌ,] and is not elided when the word is prefixed to another noun, governing the latter in the gen. case, because it is [regarded as] one of the radical letters of the word; and of this dial. is the saying of the Prophet, اَللّٰهُمَّ ا@جْعَلْهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سِنِينًا كَسِنِينِ يُوسُفَ [ O God, make them to be to them years like the years of Joseph ]; (Msb; [but in my copy of the Mgh, I find كَسِنِى يُوسُفَ;]) or with respect to سِنِينٌ, like مِئِينٌ, with refa [and tenween], there are two opinions; one is, that it is of the measure فِعْلِينٌ, like غِسْلِينٌ, with a rejection [of one letter], though this is an anomalous pl., for there sometimes occurs among pls. that which has no parallel, as عِدًى, and this is the opinion of Akh; the other is, that it is of the measure فَعِيلٌ, changed to فِعِيلٌ because of the kesreh of the second letter; the pl. being in some instances of the measure فَعِيلٌ, like كَلِيبٌ and عَبِيدٌ; but he who holds this opinion makes its final ن to be a substitute for و, and that of مِائَةٌ a substitute for ى: (S:) you may also suppress the tenween in سِنِينٌ; [in which case it seems that one says سِنِينَ in the nom. case (assimilating it to سِنُونَ) as well as in the accus. and the gen.; like as one does in the instances of بُرِين and بِرِين, pls. of بُرَةٌ, accord. to the K, though, as I have shown in art. برو, there is some doubt on this point;] but the suppression of the tenween in سِنِينٌ is more rare than its pronunciation: (I' Ak p. 18:) and another pl. is سُنِىٌّ, [originally سُنُوٌّ,] of the measure فُعُولٌ. (Er-Rághib, TA in art. سنو.) The phrase ثَلٰثَ مِائَةٍ سِنِينَ, in the Kur [xviii. 24], is said by Akh to be for ثَلٰثَمِائَةٍ مِنَ السِّنِينَ [ Three hundred of years ]: and he says that if the سِنُون be an explicative of the مِائَة, it is in the gen. case [to agree with مِائَةٍ]; and if an explicative of the ثَلٰث, it is in the accus. case [to agree with ثَلٰثَ]. (S. [See also Bd on this phrase; and see De Sacy's Ar. Gr., 2nd ed., i. 423.]) [لِسَنَةٍ, relating to an animal or a plant or the like, means To the completion of a year: and لِسَنَتِهِ, to the completion of his, or its, year; i. e. in his, or its, first year. ] And one says, ↓ لَقِيتُهُ مُنْذُ سُنَيَّاتٍ [ I met him some years ago; three or more, to ten, years ago ]: a phrase like لَقِيتُهُ ذَاتَ العُوَيْمِ. (Az, TA in art. عوم.) And ↓ سُنَيَّةٌ is a dim. of enhancement, of سَنَةٌ: one says سُنَيَّةٌ حَمْرَاآءُ A severe year of drought or barrenness or dearth: (TA:) and البِيضِ ↓ وَقَعُوا فِى السُّنَيَّاتِ [ They lapsed into the severe years of scantiness of herbage ]: these were years that pressed hard upon the people of ElMedeeneh. (K, TA.) ― -b2- سَنَةٌ [alone] also signifies (tropical:) Drought, or barrenness: (Msb, K, TA:) or vehement, or intense, drought: (TA in art. سنو:) an instance of a noun used especially in one of its senses, like دَابَّةٌ applied to “ a horse, ” and مَالٌ applied to “ camels: ” pl., in this, as in the former, sense, سَنَهَاتٌ [and سَنَوَاتٌ] and سِنُونَ and سِنِينٌ. (TA.) One says of a land (أَرْضٌ), أَصَابَتْهَا السَّنَةُ (tropical:) Drought, or barrenness, befell it. (Msb.) And in like manner one says of people, أَصَابَتْهُمُ السَّنَهُ (tropical:) [ Drought, &c., befell them ]. (TA.) A seeker of herbage and of a place in which to alight was sent to a tract, and found it dried up by want of rain, and when he returned, being asked respecting it, he said, السَّنَةُ, meaning (tropical:) Drought, &c. [has befallen it]. (TA.) And it is said in a trad., اَللّٰهُمَّ أَعِنِّى عَلَى مُضَرَبِالسَّنَةِ, i. e. (tropical:) [ O God, aid me against Mudar ] by drought &c. (TA.) -A2- It is also [used as an epithet,] applied to land (أَرْضٌ), as meaning (tropical:) Affected with drought, or barrenness; (As, S, K;) as also ↓ سَنْهَاآءُ and سَنْوَاآءُ. (Msb.) One says likewise, هٰذِهِ بِلَادٌ سِنِينٌ (tropical:) [...]

سَنَهْ سَنَهْ ذ , also pronounced with teshdeed to the ن: see سَنًا, in art. سنو and سنى, last sentence.

طَعَامٌ سَنِهٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) [ Food, or wheat, ] that has undergone the lapse of years; (AZ, K;) as also سَنٍ. (AZ, TA.) ― -b2- See also مُتَسَنِّهٌ.

نَخْلَةٌ سَنْهَاآءُ ذ (assumed tropical:) A palm-tree that bears one year and not another: (S, K:) or a palm-tree affected by a year of drought. (S.) And سَنَةٌ سَنْهَاآءُ A year in which is no herbage nor rain. (TA.) ― -b2- See also سَنَةٌ, last sentence but one.

سُنَيْهَةٌ ذ and سُنَيَّةٌ (dims. of سَنَةٌ), and the pl. سُنَيَّات: see سَنَةٌ, in five places: and see also سُنَيَّةٌ in art. سنو and سنى.

مُتَسَنِّهٌ ذ , applied to bread, (S, K,) and so ↓ سَنِهٌ applied to bread and to beverage &c., (CK, but see 5, third sentence,) (assumed tropical:) Mouldy, or musty, or spoiled. (S, K.)

1 سَنَا ذ , [aor. يَسْنُو,] inf. n. سُنُوٌّ and سِنَايَةٌ and سِنَاوَةٌ, i. q. سَقَى [as meaning He watered, or irrigated, land]. (M.) [Hence,] one says أَرْضٌ ↓ مَسْنُوَّةٌ and ↓ مَسْنِيَّةٌ, (S, M, K,) meaning Watered, or irrigated, land: (M:) the و in مَسْنِيَّةٌ being changed into ى, (S, M,) in the opinion of Sb, (M,) like as it is in قِنْيَةٌ; (S;) for he knew not سَنَيْتُهَا [as meaning I watered it ], holding مَسْنِيَّةٌ to be from [سَنَاهَا having for its aor.] يَسْنُوهَا. (M.) One says [also], سَنَتِ النَّاقَةُ, aor. تَسْنُو, (S, K,) inf. n. [as above, or] سِنَاوَةٌ and سِنَايَةٌ, (TA,) The she-camel watered, or irrigated, land. (S, K, TA.) And السَّحَابَةُ تَسْنُو الأَرْضَ (S, Msb) The cloud waters the land. (Msb.) And سَنَاكَ الغَيْثُ (assumed tropical:) [ The rain gave thee water for thy land, or may the rain give thee water ], inf. n. سنو and سنى [app. سُنُوٌّ and سُنِىٌّ]. (TA.) And السَّحَابُ يَسْنُو المَطَرَ (assumed tropical:) [ The clouds send down rain ]. (TA.) And سَنَتِ السَّحَابَةُ بِالمَطَرِ (assumed tropical:) [ The cloud watered, or irrigated, with rain ], aor. تَسْنُو and تَسْنِى. (M, TA.) And سَنَتِ السَّمَاآءُ, aor. تَسْنُو, inf. n. سُنُوٌّ, (tropical:) The sky rained. (TA.) ― -b2- سَنَتِ الدَّابَّةُ, aor. تَسْنِى; (M in art. سنى;) or سَنِيَت, (K, * TA,) aor. تَسْنَى, like تَرْضَى; (K, TA;) The beast [by which is app. meant, in the M, the horse, for it is there added وَغَيْرُهَا, meaning that the verb is said in like manner of other animals, which is the case, for it is generally said of a camel,] was used for the drawing of water upon it [to irrigate land: see سَانِيَةٌ, below]. (M, K.) And سَنَا, aor. يَسْنُو, said of a beast [turning a water-wheel], He turned round about the well. (R, TA.) And القَوْمُ يَسْنُونَ لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ, (S, K,) inf. n. سِنَايَةٌ, and sometimes سانِيَةٌ, (TA,) The people, or party, draw water for themselves; (S, K; [in some copies of the former of which, اـِذَا أَسْقَوْا is erroneously put for اـِذَا ا@سْتَقَوْا, the reading in both of my copies;]) and so ↓ اِسْتَنَوْأَ لانفسهم. (M, * TA.) And سَنَا عَلَى البَعِيرِ, inf. n. سَنَايَةٌ [app. a mistranscription for سِنَايَةٌ], He drew water upon the camel; which camel is termed سَانِيَةٌ. (MA.) And بَعِيرٌ يُسْنَى عَلَيْهِ A camel upon which water is drawn. (Mgh and Msb in explanation of سَانِيَةٌ.) And بِئْرٌ يُسْنَى مِنْهَا [ A well from which water is drawn, app. by means of the camel called سَانِيَة]. (M.) And سَنَوْتُ الدَّلْوَ, inf. n. سِنَايَةٌ, I drew the bucket from the well. (TA.) -A2- سَنَتِ النَّارُ, (M, K,) aor. تَسْنُو, inf. n. سَنَاآءٌ, (M,) The fire became high in its light. (M, K.) And سَنَا البَرْقُ, (M, K,) aor. يَسْنُو, inf. n. سَنَاآءٌ, (TA,) The lightning shone, shone brightly, or gleamed: (M, K, TA:) [or gleamed upwards, or shot up: for, in the Kur xxiv. 43,] some read, يَكَادُ سَنَاآءُ بَرْقِهِ يَدْهَبُ بِا@لْأَبْصَارِ, meaning The rising and gleaming upwards of his lightning [ nearly taketh away the sight, lit. sights ]; others reading سَنَا, of which سَنَاآء is not a dial. var. (M.) And ↓ اسنى البَرْقُ signifies [in like manner] The lightning shone, or gleamed; or diffused itself, and rose. (M.) And سَنَا اـِلَى مَعَالِى الأُمُورِ (assumed tropical:) He rose [or aspired ] to the means of attaining eminence. (M.) And سَنُوَ فِى حَسَبِهِ, inf. n. سَنَاآءٌ, (assumed tropical:) He became high, or exalted, in his grounds of pretension to respect or honour. (M.) And سَنِىَ, like رَضِىَ, He (a man, TA) was, or became, high, or exalted, in rank. (K, * TA.) -A3- See also 2, in two places. -A4- And see 5.

2 سنّاهُ ذ , (M, TA,) inf. n. تَسْنِيَةٌ, (TA,) He ascended, rose, mounted, got, was, or became, upon it, namely, a thing; (M, TA;) as also ↓ تسنّاهُ. (M.) And البَعِيرُ النَّاقَةَ ↓ تسنّى The he-camel mounted the she-camel to compress her. (K.) -A2- And سنّاهُ, (S, K,) inf. n. as above, (K,) He opened it; (S, K, TA;) namely, a knot, and a lock: (TA:) and made it easy. (S, K, TA. [In the last of these, said to be tropical.]) A poet says, وَأَعْلَمُ عِلْمًا لَيْسَ بِالظَّنِّ أَنَّهُ اـِذَا ا@للّٰهُ سَنَّى عَقْدَ شَىْءٍ تَيَسَّرَا [ And I know with a knowledge that is not mere opinion, that, when God opens, and makes easy, the tying, or knotting, of a thing, it becomes easy ]. (S.) And one says, سَنَّيْتُ الشَّىْءَ, and الأَمْرَ, (assumed tropical:) I opened the way of doing the thing, and the affair. (TA.) And البَابَ ↓ سَنَيْتُ, (K,) inf. n. سنى [app. سَنْىٌ], (TA,) I opened the door; as also ↓ سَنَوْتُهُ; (K, TA;) the verb in this sense having ى and و for its last radical. (TA.) -A3- See also 5.

3 سَانَيْتُ الرَّجُلَ ذ , (S, M, * K, *) inf. n. مُسَانَاةٌ (TA) [and سِنَاآءٌ (see what I have said respecting a verse cited voce سِنٌّ)], (tropical:) I vied with the man in being pleased, well pleased, or content; or I agreed, consented, accorded, or was of one mind or opinion, with him: (S, M, * K: *) and I treated him with gentleness, or blandishment; soothed, or coaxed, him: and behaved well to him in my social intercourse with him: (S, K:) or مُسَانَاةٌ signifies the treating one with gentleness, or blandishment, in suing for a thing: (Az, TA:) or the endeavouring to conciliate one. (TA.) -A2- And ساناهُ, inf. n. مُسَانَاْةٌ and سِنَاآءٌ, He hired him for [or by ] the year; (M, K;) or he made an engagement, or a contract, with him for work or the like, by the year; like سَانَهَهُ: (K in art. سنه:) and عَامَلَهُ مُسَانَاةً and اِسْتَأْجَرَهُ مَسَانَاةً signify the same as مُسَانَهَةً [q. v.]. (M, TA.)

4 اسناهُ ذ He raised, exalted, or elevated, him, or it. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- اسنى النَّارَ He raised the light of the fire. (M.) ― -b3- اسنى لَهُ الجَائِزَةَ He raised [ in value ], to him, the جائزة [i. e. gift, or present ]. (TA.) And أَسْنَيْنَا لَهُ الجَعَالَةَ We made much and high [ in amount ], to him, the pay. (Har p. 134.) ― -b4- And اسنى جِوَارَهُ i. q. أَحْسَنَهُ [app. meaning He made good his covenant of protection ]. (TA.) -A2- اسنى البَرْقُ The lightning sent its light into the house, or tent, or chamber: or fell upon the ground: or flew along in the clouds; (K, TA;) or, sometimes, elsewhere, not in the clouds: but it is only in the night. (TA.) See also another explanation near the end of the first paragraph. -A3- اسنى القَوْمُ, (S, M, K,) inf. n. اـِسْنَاآءٌ, (S) The people, or party, tarried a year (S, K) in a place: (S:) or it signifies أَتَى عَلَيْهِمُ العَامُ [ the year passed over them; meaning they remained to the end of the year ]. (M.) But أَسْنَتُوا signifies They were afflicted with drought, or barrenness: (S, M, * K: [Freytag has erroneously assigned this signification to اِسْتَنَوْا:]) the و, (S,) or the ى, which is originally و, (M,) being changed into ت, (S, M,) to distinguish between this verb and اسنى in the sense expl. above. (S. [See art. سنت.])

5 تسنّى ذ : see 2, in two places. ― -b2- Also i. q. رقى رقية [in the CK رَقٰى رُقْيَةً, and in my MS. copy of the K رَقَا رُقْيَةً, but correctly رَقِىَ, meaning He ascended: agreeably with this rendering, the inf. n. is expl. in the TK as meaning يوكسكه Jقمق:] said of a man. (K, * TA.) -A2- Also It opened, or became opened or open: said of a lock [&c.]. (TA.) ― -b2- It was, or became, facilitated, or easy; and ready, or prepared. (Har pp. 159 and 508.) ― -b3- And i. q. تَسَهَّلَ فِى أُمُورِهِ, said of a man, (K,) i. e. He found, or experienced, ease, or facility, in his affairs. (TK.) -A3- Also i. q. تَرَضَّى: so in the phrase تسنّى فُلَانًا [ He sought to please, content, or satisfy, such a one; or he pleased, contented, or satisfied, such a one, after striving, labouring, or toiling ]: (K:) but it is said in the M, [app. a mistake, perhaps for the T, for in the M I do not find it,] that سنيت فلانا [by which may be meant either ↓ سَنَيْتُ or ↓ سَنَّيْتُ] means ترضّيته. (TA.) -A4- تَسَنَّيْتُ عِنْدَهُ I remained, stayed, dwelt, or abode, with him, or at his abode, a year; like تَسَنَّهْتُ عِنْدَهُ: (Msb in art. سنه:) or it means ↓ أَقَمْتُ عِنْدَهُ سُنَيَّاتِ [ I remained &c., with him, or at his abode, some years; three or more, to ten, years ]. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) تسنّى signifies also It became altered [ for the worse ], (S, K, TA,) accord. to Er-Rághib, so that it lost its freshness, by the lapse of years: (TA: [see also تَسَنَّهَ:]) but accord. to AA, it is from the phrase in the Kur [xv. 26 and 28 and 33] مِنْ حَمَأٍ مَسْنُونٍ; one of the نs being changed into ى; and is similar to تَقَضَّى for تَقَضَّضَ. (S, TA.)

8 اِسْتَنَوْا لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ ذ : see 1. -A2- استنى النَّارَ He looked at the light of the fire. (IAar, M.)

سَنًا ذ Light: (Msb, MF:) or the light of lightning, (S, M, K,) and of fire: (M:) or the point, or extremity, of the light of lightning: (T, TA:) or light shining or gleaming, or diffusing itself and rising: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or a high light: and applied also to the shining, or gleaming, of weapons: (Ham p. 271:) MF says that the apparent particularization in the K [&c.] seems to have been taken from the verse of the Kur [xxiv. 43], and that the word is correctly a general term, meaning as expl. in the Msb: (TA:) [it is originally سَنَوٌ, though mentioned in the K as belonging to art. سنى; for] the dual is سَنَوَانِ: As knew not a verb belonging to it. (TA.) -A2- Also [The cassia senna of Linn.; the common senna of medicine; so called in the present day; and also called سَنَامَكَّة, and سَنَا حِجَازِىّ;] a certain plant, (S, M, Msb, K,) used as a medicine; (S, TA;) and recommended in a trad.; (TA;) an attenuant of the yellow bile and the black bile and the phlegm, (K, TA,) howsoever used; (TA;) [and] used as a collyrium; (M;) AHn describes it as a shrub, or small tree, of the [ class called ] أَغْلَاث [pl. of غَلَثٌ], which is mixed with حِنَّاآء, and improves and strengthens its colour, and blackens it; and which has a fruit of such kind that, when it dries up, and is put in motion by the wind, it causes to be heard a sound such as is termed زَجَل [q. v.]: (M in arts. سنو and سنى, and TA:) its name is as above and ↓ سَنَاآءٌ: (M, K:) and the n. un. is سَنَاةٌ and سَنَاآءَةٌ: (M in arts. سنو and سنى:) the dual of سَنًا is سَنَيَانِ, and some say سَنَوَانِ. (M in art. سنى.) [Accord. to a gloss. in a copy of the S, as stated by Golius, the dual سَنَوَانِ is applied to The leaves of cyprus (or حِنَّاآء) and senna mixed together, with which the hair is dyed black.] In the phrase سَنَا المِسْكِ, in a verse of El-Jaadee, the plant [above mentioned] may be meant, as though it were mixed with musk: or it may be from سَنًا signifying “ light; ” because the diffusion of odour is like that of light. (M.) -A3- سَنَا, (JM,) or سَنَا سَنَا, (TA,) without teshdeed, and also with tesh-deed, to the ن, is an Abyssinian expression, meaning حَسُنَ [q. v.], (JM, TA,) occurring in a trad. of Umm-Khálid; but it is differently related; some saying سَنَهْ سَنَهْ; and some, سَنَان; and pronouncing each with, as well as without, teshdeed: so in the Nh. (TA.)

طَعَامٌ سَنٍ ذ [ Food, or wheat, ] that has undergone the lapse of years; as also سَنِهٌ. (AZ, TA in art. سنه.)

سَنَةٌ ذ , applied to a portion of time, (M,) signifying A year, syn. حَوْلٌ, (Mgh,) or عَامٌ, (K,) but a distinction is made between عَامٌ and سَنَةٌ, [as has been stated in art. سنه,] (TA,) belongs to arts. سنو and سنه [in both of which it is mentioned in many of the lexicons: see what has been said respecting it in art. سنه in the present work]: (M:) accord. to Suh, in the R, it is from سَنَا, aor. يَسْنُو, said of a beast [turning a water-wheel], meaning “ he turned round about the well; ” so that it signifies a single revolution of the sun; and it is sometimes termed دَارٌ: he says also that it is longer than the عَام, which is applied to the [twelve] Arabian months [collectively]: but سَنَةٌ is also applied to twelve revolutions of the moon: the سَنَة شَمْسِيَّة [or solar year ] is three hundred and sixty-five days and a quarter of a day: and the سَنَة قَمَرِيَّة [or lunar year ] is three hundred and fifty-four days and a third of a day: it is also said, on the authority of Er-Rághib, that سَنَةٌ is used as denoting a year in which is difficulty, and drought, or barrenness, or dearth; and عَامٌ, as denoting that in which is ampleness of the means, or circumstances, of life, and abundance of herbage or the like; and by this is explained the nice point in the words of the Kur [xxix. 13], أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ اـِلَّا خَمْسِينَ عَامًا [ a thousand years save fifty years ]; because the fifty years passed before the mission of the prophet [Noah], before which no harm happened to him from his people; but after his mission, the years were difficult to him. (TA.) [Respecting the dims., (which are سُنّيَّةٌ and سُنَيْهَةٌ, the former accord. to those who make the original of سَنَةٌ to be سَنْوَةٌ, and the latter accord. to those who make it to be سَنْهَةٌ,) and the pls., (which are سَنَوَاتٌ and سَنَهَاتٌ and سِنُونَ and سُنُونَ and سِنِينٌ and سِنِينَ, the last whereof is originally سِنِينٌ, and سُنِىٌّ also,) see سَنَةٌ in art. سنه ― -b2- Also respecting سَنَةٌ used alone as signifying (tropical:) Drought, or barrenness, or vehement or intense drought, see that word in art. سنه. -A2- Also respecting the same word used as an epithet, applied to land (أَرْضٌ), as meaning (tropical:) Affected with drought or barrenness, like سَنْوَاآءُ and سَنْهَاآءُ, see that same word in art. سنه.]

سَنَةٌ سَنْوَاآءُ ذ (assumed tropical:) A hard, rigorous, or distressing, year. (M, K.) And أَرْضٌ سَنْوَاآءٌ (assumed tropical:) A land affected with drought or barrenness [like أَرْضٌ سَنَةٌ]. (TA.) [See also سَنْهَاآءُ, in art. سنه.]

سَنَاآءٌ ذ inf. n. of سَنَت said of fire, (M,) and of سَنَا said of lightning, (TA,) and of سَنُوَ. (M.) ― -b2- [Used as a simple subst.,] High, or exalted, rank or condition. (S, * Msb, K, TA.) -A2- See also سَنًا.

سَنِىٌّ ذ High, or exalted, in rank or condition: (S, M:) as also ↓ سَنَايَا, applied to a man. (K, * TA.)

سُنَيَّةٌ ذ dim. of سَنَةٌ, (S and Msb in art. سنه,) accord. to those who make the latter word to be originally سَنْوَةٌ: (Msb in that art.:) pl. سُنَيَّاتٌ. (K and TA in that art., and TA in the present art.) See 5, last sentence but one; and see also سَنَةٌ, in art. سنه, in four places.

أَخَذَهُ بِسِنَايَتِهِ ذ (S, K) and بِصِنَايَتِهِ (S) He took it wholly. (S, K.)

سَنَايَا ذ : see سَنِىٌّ.

سَانٍ ذ Watering: [and drawing water: ] applied [as an epithet] to a man and to a camel: pl. سُنَاةٌ; which is applied by Lebeed to men [as meaning] drawing water by means of سَوَانٍ [pl. of سَانِيَةٌ, q. v.]. (TA.)

سَانِيَةٌ ذ [a subst. from سَانٍ, made so by the affix ة,] A she-camel, (S, * M, K,) or a camel, (Mgh, Msb,) a he-camel as well as a she-camel, (TA,) upon which water is drawn (S, * M, Mgh, Msb, K, TA) from a [ deep ] well (Mgh, Msb) [ by a man riding or leading it away from the well, it having the two extremities of a long rope tied to the saddle, and the upper end of the wellrope being tied to the middle of the former rope, as expl. voce ثِنَايَةٌ]; i. q. نَاضِحَةٌ: (S, TA:) [it seems also to signify, sometimes, a camel that carries water for irrigating seed-produce; a meaning likewise assigned to نَاضِحَةٌ and نَاضِحٌ:] and a beast (دابّة) that turns round about a well [ raising water from it by means of the machine called دُولَاب]: (R, TA:) pl. سَوَانٍ. (S, Mgh, TA.) Hence the prov., سَيْرُ السَّوَانِى سَفَرٌ لَا يَنْقَطِعْ [ The course of the beasts that draw water in either of the ways described above is a journey that does not end ]. (S, Mgh, TA.) ― -b2- Also the غَرْب [or large bucket with which water is drawn ] together with its gear, or apparatus. (M, Mgh, K.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) A cloud watering the earth. (Msb.)

أَرْضٌ مَسْنُوَّةٌ ذ and مَسْنِيَّةٌ: see 1, second sentence.

مُسَنَّاةٌ ذ i. q. عَرِمٌ [q. v.]: (S, K:) [or rather] A dam; i. e. a thing constructed [or raised ] to keep back the water of a torrent; (Mgh;) a [ kind of ] wall built in the face of water: (Msb in art. سن:) so called because there are in it sluices, or openings for the water, according to what may be required; from سَنَّيْتُ الشَّىْءَ, and الأَمْرَ, expl. above: so in the T: (TA:) pl. مُسَنَّيَاتٌ. (MA.)

مَسْنَوِيَّةٌ ذ , (M, TA,) or بِئْرٌ مَسْنَوِيَّةٌ, (Az, TA,) A well (Az, M, TA) of which the rope is long, (Az, TA,) from which one draws water only by means of the camel called سَانِيَة. (Az, M, * TA.)

سَهٌ ذ and سُهٌ: see اِسْتٌ, in art. سته, in four places.

1 سَهْبٌ ذ The act of taking. (JK, K.) You say, سَهَبَ الشَّىْءَ, aor. سَهَبَ , inf. n. سَهْبٌ, He took the thing. (TK.)

2 تَسْهِيبٌ ذ The departure of reason, or intellect: its verb [which was probably سُهِّبَ, like أُسْهِبَ, q. v.,] is obsolete. (TA.)

4 اسهب ذ He went far, or to a great or an extraordinary length, in a thing; for instance, in journeying; as in a trad., in which it is said of horses, or horsemen, أَسْبَهَتْ شَهْرًا They went far for a month; and in eating and drinking; as in another trad.: (TA:) it is from سُهْبٌ, signifying “ a plain and far-extending land; ” as though meaning He traversed a plain and far-extending tract of land; like as one says أَسْهَلَ and أَحْزَنَ. (Har p. 572.) He (a horse) ran with wide steps, and preceded, or outstripped. (S, TA. [See also سَهْبٌ, below.]) And [hence,] He was, or became, loquacious, or profuse of speech; (IAar, S, K;) like اسهم; (K * and TA in art. سهم;) [and] so اسهب فِى المَنْطِقِ : (JK:) or he doted; or was disordered in his intellect; but when a man makes many mistakes in his speech, you say of him أَفْنَدَ: (As, TA:) or he doted much, or often; or was much, or often, disordered in his intellect: (AO, TA:) [and it seems from an explanation of the part. n. مُسْهِبٌ that it probably signifies also he was eloquent, or profuse of correct speech: ] or he was very greedy, and (in some copies of the K “ or ”) covetous, so as to refrain from nothing: (K, TA:) and you say also اسهب كَلَامَهُ He prolonged, or was prolix in, his speech: and فى كَلَامِهِ اـِسْهَابٌ In his speech is prolixity. (A, TA.) Also He (a man) gave much, or largely; and so ↓ استهب: (Lth, K:) [or, in this sense,] you say, اسهب فِى العَطَاآء. (A.) ― -b2- اسهبوا They reached sand, in digging [a well], and water came not forth: (S:) or they dug, and came upon sand or a current of air: (K:) or they dug, and came upon a current of air, and the water disappointed them of its coming: (Az, TA:) or they dug without attaining any good: (K:) or اسهب signifies he dug until he reached sand: and, accord. to Th, he dug a well and reached water. (TA.) ― -b3- اسهبوا الدَّابَّةَ They left the beast alone, or by itself, (K, TA,) to pasture [ where it would ]. (TA.) -A2- اسهب الشَّاةَ وَلَدُهَا Her young one sucked, (K,) or licked, (TA,) the ewe, or she-goat. (K.) -A3- أُسْهِبَ He (a man, S) lost his reason, (S, K, TA,) as some say, (TA,) from the bite of a serpent, (S, K, TA,) or the sting of a scorpion: (TA:) or his colour became altered in consequence of love or fright or disease: (K:) or, accord. to AHát, اسهب, [so in the TA, in which it seems to be implied that أَسْهَبَ, not أُسْهِبَ, is meant,] inf. n. اـِسْهَابٌ, signifies he (a man bitten by a serpent, or stung by a scorpion,) lost his reason and lived. (TA. [See also the part. n., مُسْهَبٌ, below.]) اـِسْهَابُ اللُّبِّ [in which the former word is probably the inf. n. of أُسْهِبَ, not of أَسْهَبَ,] means The mind's being confounded, or perplexed, by [ love of ] a woman. (JK.)

8 اـِسْتَهَبَ see 4, in the middle of the paragraph.

سَهْبٌ ذ A desert, or waterless desert; syn. فَلَاةٌ: (S, K:) pl. سُهُبٌ. (TA.) [See also سُهْبٌ.] -A2- A horse wide of step in running, (S, K, TA,) and (TA) vehement therein, (JK, K, * TA,) slow to sweat; (JK, TA;) and ↓ مُسْهَبٌ and ↓ مُسْهِبٌ, (K,) but the latter of these is said to be peculiarly the chaste form in this sense, (TA,) signify the same. (K.) ― -b2- بِئْرٌ سَهْبَةٌ A deep well; (S, A, O, K;) as also ↓ بِئْرٌ مُسْهَبَةٌ: (S * O:) or the former, a deep well (JK, TA) from which sand comes forth (JK) or from which wind, or a current of air, comes forth: (TA:) and ↓ the latter, a well of which the coarse sand baffles one so that he cannot reach the water [ in digging it ]; (K;) or a well that people dig until they reach pouring earth, which baffles them by its pouring down, so that they leave it; (Sh, TA;) or a well of which the bottom and the water are not reached; (Ks, TA;) or a well that is dug until one reaches the water upon which is the earth. (Az, TA. [See 4.]) -A3- A portion of time; as in the saying, مَضَى سَهْبٌ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ [ A portion of the night passed ]. (TA.)

سُهْبٌ ذ A plain and smooth, or plain and smooth and soft, tract of land: pl. سُهُوبٌ: (K:) or the pl. signifies plain and far-extending tracts of land: (JK, A, TA:) or wide land [or lands (for the sing. is expl. in the TA in one place as signifying a wide land )]: (AA, TA:) or سُهُوبُ الفَلَاةِ signifies, (K,) or signifies also, (JK,) tracts, or regions, of the فلاة [i. e. desert, or waterless desert, ] in which there is no way. (JK, K.) [See an ex. in a verse cited in art. رقل, conj. 4: and see also سَهْبٌ, above, first sentence.]

مُسْهَبٌ ذ , with fet-h to the ه, [contr. to rule, being of the measure مُفْعَلٌ in the sense of the measure مُفْعِلٌ,] Going far, or to a great or an extraordinary length, in a thing: and prolonging. (TA.) ― -b2- See also سَهْبٌ: and its fem., with ة, see in two places in the same paragraph. ― -b3- Also Long, or tall: (JK:) applied [in the latter sense] as an epithet to a man: and طَوِيلٌ مُسْهَبٌ excessively tall. (A.) ― -b4- Also, and ↓ مُسْهِبٌ, (K,) both said to have been mentioned by ISk, (TA,) or the former, but not ↓ the latter, (AZ, IAar, IKt, Zbd, S, TA,) though the former is extr. [with respect to rule], (S, TA,) Loquacious, or profuse of speech: (AZ, IAar, ISk, IKt, Zbd, S, K, TA:) or, accord. to Aboo-'Alee El-Baghdádee, as is stated by IB, the former signifies profuse and erroneous in speech: and the ↓ latter, eloquent, or profuse and correct in speech: and in like manner says El-Aalam, adding that ↓ the latter is shown to have this meaning by its being applied to a horse that is fleet, or swift, and excellent: (TA:) or the former signifies doting; or disordered in his intellect: (As, TA:) or doting much, or often; or much, or often, disordered in his intellect: (AO, TA:) [and similar explanations of it will be found below:] other instances of verbs of the measure أَفْعَلَ having مُفْعَلٌ as the measure of the part. n. used in the sense of the measure مُفْعِلٌ are أَلْفَجَ and أَحْصَنَ and أَجْرَشَتِ الاـِبِلُ and أَهْتَرَ: as used in the first of the senses expl. in this sentence, مُسْهَبٌ is from سُهْبٌ signifying “ a wide land: ” or, as some say, it is from أَسْهَبُوا الدَّابَّةَ, expl. above; as though the person to whom it is applied were left to speak what he would, or made to have ample scope to say what he would. (TA.) ― -b5- Both مُسْهَبٌ and ↓ مُسْهِبٌ signify also Very greedy, and covetous, so as to refrain from nothing. (TA.) ― -b6- And the former, One who has lost his reason; as some say, from the bite of a serpent, or the sting of a scorpion: or one who talks irrationally, or foolishly, or deliriously, in consequence of doting, or disorder of his intellect: or whose colour has become altered in consequence of love or fright or disease. (TA.) And مُسْهَبُ الجِسْمِ A man whose body is wasting away in consequence of love: so says Yaakoob: and Lh mentions the phrases العَقْلِ ↓ مُسْهِبُ, with kesr, and الجِسْمِ, and مُسْهِم, which is formed by substitution [of م for ب], as meaning a man whose reason is departing, and whose body is wasting away, in consequence of love: and accord, to AHát, مسهب, [app. ↓ مُسْهِبٌ, as the context seems to imply,] applied to one bitten by a serpent or stung by a scorpion, signifies who has lost his reason, and lives. (TA.) ― -b7- Also Land farextending, and plain, with depression, consisting of low tracts, the depression whereof is little, extending for the space of a day and a night [ of journeying ], and thereabout: the بُطُون [or low tracts ] of land of which it consists are in [ deserts such as are termed ] صَحَارَى, and in elevated and plain, or hard and elevated, tracts of ground, and sometimes they flow [ with torrents ], and sometimes they do not flow, for they comprise parts that are rugged, and parts that are plain, or soft, producing much herbage, and in them are places wherein are trees [or shrubs ], and places wherein are none. (L, TA.) ― -b8- Also A place that does not obstruct nor retain water. (TA.)

مُسْهِبٌ ذ : see سَهْبٌ, second signification: ― -b2- and see مُسْهَبٌ, in seven places. ― -b3- Also A man who overcomes, or surpasses, and is bountiful, in his gifts. (TA.)

1 سَهَجَتِ الرِّيحُ ذ , (S, A, K,) aor. سَهَجَ , (JK,) inf. n. سَهْجٌ, (TA,) The wind blew violently: (S, A, K, TA: [like سَهَكَت:]) or continually and violently. (TA.) ― -b2- سَهَجَتِ الاـِبِلُ The camels journeyed, or went, quickly, or hastily. (JK.) ― -b3- سَهَجَ القَوْمُ لَيْلَتَهُمْ, (S, K,) inf. n. as above, (S,) The people, or party, passed their night journeying (S, K) continually. (TA.) -A2- سَهَجَتِ الرِّيحُ الأَرْضَ [like سَحَجَت] The wind pared the ground: (S, K:) or pared its surface. (TA.) ― -b2- And سَهَجَ الطِّيبَ, (S, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) He bruised, brayed, or pounded, or he pounded small, powdered, or pulverized, the perfume: (S, K:) or سَهْجٌ signifies any bruising, braying, or pounding. (TA.)

رِيحٌ سَهُوجٌ ذ and سَهْوَجٌ (O, K) and ↓ سَيْهَجٌ (S, O, K) and ↓ سَيْهُوجٌ, (S, A, O, K,) in the last two of which the ج is asserted by Yaakoob to be a substitute for ك, (Az, TA,) and ↓ سَيْهَجَةٌ, (TA,) A violent wind. (S, A, O, K.) And you say also رِيَاحٌ سُهَّجٌ (JK, S, O) and سَاهِجَاتٌ (JK) [both pls. of ↓ رِيحٌ سَاهِجَةٌ, and signifying, accord. to the context in the JK and O, Violent winds: or, accord. to the context in the S, winds that pare the ground: the sing. like رِيحٌ سَهُوكٌ and سَاهِكَةٌ &c.].

رِيحٌ سَاهِجَةٌ ذ ; pl. رِيَاحٌ سُهَّجٌ and سَاهِجَاتٌ: see the next preceding paragraph. ― -b2- غُبَارٌ سَاهِجٌ Dust rising high. (JK.)