سحح

Root entry · 21 derived lemmas

This root primarily denotes continuous, abundant pouring or flowing, often of liquids like water, rain, or tears. It extends to concepts of intense action, rapid movement, and extreme fatness, particularly in animals.

Derived headwords

السحّnoun

1.
continuous pouringboth
Continuous, abundant pouring or flowing, especially of liquids.
2.
dried datesclassical
Dried dates that have not been moistened with water, scattered on the ground.
3.
strikingclassical
Striking, stabbing, or flogging.

سحّverb

1.
to pour continuouslyboth
To pour or flow continuously and abundantly, like rain or tears.
2.
to strikeclassical
To strike, stab, or flog someone, for example, with a hundred lashes.

وسح الدمع والمطر والماء يسح سحا وسحوحا: أي سال من فوق، واشتد انصبابه. — And tears, rain, and water pour, pouring abundantly: meaning they flowed from above, and their pouring intensified.

السحوحnoun

1.
abundant pouringboth
The act of pouring abundantly, used as a masdar for the intransitive verb.
2.
extreme fatnessclassical
Extreme fatness, especially of sheep or cows.

ساحverb

1.
to flow on the groundboth
To flow or run on the surface of the earth.

وساح يسيح سيحا: إذا جرى على وجه الأرض — And to flow, flowing on the ground: if it ran on the face of the earth.

التسحسحverb

1.
to flowboth
To flow, especially of water or a thing.

تسحسح الماء والشيء: سال. — Water and a thing flow: it flowed.

السحسحnoun

1.
courtyardboth
The courtyard of a house or settlement.
2.
heavy rainclassical
Intense rain that severely affects the earth's surface.

السحسحةnoun

1.
courtyardboth
The courtyard of a house or settlement.

السحاحadjective

1.
fat (sheep)both
Fat, especially referring to sheep.

وغنم سحاح، بالكسر، وسحاح بالضم، أي سمان، الأخيرة (نادرة) — And sheep that are fat, with kasra, and fat, with damma, meaning plump, the latter (is rare).

ساحةadjective

1.
fat (animal)both
Fat, especially referring to an animal like a sheep or cow.

والدنيا أهون علي من منحة ساحة — And the world is easier for me than a gift of a fat (sheep).

مررت على جزور ساح — I passed by a fat camel.

ساحadjective

1.
fat (animal)both
Fat, especially referring to an animal like a sheep or cow.

وبصرتني بعد خبط الغشو م هاذي العجاف وهاذي السحاحا — And you showed me after the confusion of ignorance these lean ones and these fat ones.

مسحadjective

1.
swift (horse)classical
Swift and excellent, referring to a horse, as if pouring its speed.

السحسحadjective

1.
heavy rainclassical
Intense rain that severely affects the earth's surface.

السحسح (: الشديد من المطر) يسح جدا، يقشر وجه الأرض، (كالسحساح)، بالفتح أيضا. — The heavy rain: (the intense rain) pours very much, stripping the face of the earth, (like the heavy rain), also with fatha.

السحساحadjective

1.
heavy rainclassical
Intense rain that severely affects the earth's surface.

سحاحةnoun

1.
tearfulnessclassical
Abundant flow of tears from the eyes.

وعين سحاحة، وفي نسخة: سحساحة، وهو الصواب: (صبابة للدمع) أي كثيرة الصب له. — And an eye with abundant tears, and in a copy: with abundant tears, which is correct: (fondness for tears) meaning abundant pouring of it.

سحساحةadjective

1.
very fatclassical
Extremely fat, used to describe an animal.

ويروى: (سحساحة)، وهو بمعناه. — And it is narrated: (very fat), and it means the same.

السحاحnoun

1.
airclassical
The air, atmosphere, or open space.

انسحverb

1.
to pour (sweat)classical
To pour out, especially referring to sweat from a camel's armpit.

انسح إبط البعير عرقا فهو منسح أي انصب. — The camel's armpit poured sweat, so it is pouring, meaning it flowed.

منسحadjective

1.
pouringclassical
Pouring out, flowing, used to describe sweat.

سحاءadjective

1.
abundant (oath)classical
Abundant and continuous, used to describe an oath or divine promise, implying constant giving.
2.
pouring (calamity)classical
Pouring down suddenly and intensely, like a calamity.

يمين الله سحاء، لا يغيضها شيء الليل والنهار — The oath of God is pouring, nothing diminishes it, night and day.

أغر عليهم غارة سحاء — Make a sudden raid upon them.

مسحسحةadjective

1.
flowing (wound)classical
Flowing or oozing, used to describe a wound or injury.

وطعنة مسحسحة: سائلة، وأنشد: مسحسحة تعلو ظهور الأنال — And a flowing stab: flowing, and he recited: flowing, it rises on the backs of the spears.

سحّهاverb

1.
to pour itboth
To pour it, referring to liquids like rain or tears.

Parallel reading

الصبر المتتابع؛ قاله ابن دريد.

Continuous patience; said Ibn Duraid.

وفي (المصباح) : الصب الكثير.

And in (Al-Misbah): abundant pouring.

وفي العين: هو شدة الانصباب.

And in Al-Ain: it is the intensity of pouring.

السح: هو (السيلان من فوق)، والفعل كنصر، سواء كان متعديا أو لازما، كما هو ظاهر الصحاح، وصرح به الفيومي وبعضهم قال: يجري على القياس، فالمتعدي مضموم، واللازم مكسور.

Al-Sah: it is (flowing from above), and the verb is like nasara, whether transitive or intransitive, as is apparent from Al-Sihah, and Al-Fayyumi stated it, and some said: it follows the analogy, so the transitive is with damma, and the intransitive is with kasra.

وسحت السماء مطرها.

And the sky poured its rain.

وسح الدمع والمطر والماء يسح سحا وسحوحا: أي سال من فوق، واشتد انصبابه.

And tears, rain, and water pour, pouring abundantly: meaning they flowed from above, and their pouring intensified.

وساح يسيح سيحا: إذا جرى على وجه الأرض

And to flow, flowing on the ground: if it ran on the face of the earth.

تسحسح الماء والشيء: سال.

Water and a thing flow: it flowed.

يقال: تسحسح الماء والشيء: سال.

It is said: Water and a thing flow: it flowed.

قال شيخنا: ظاهر كلامه كالجوهري أن السح والسحوح مصدران للمتعدي واللازم، والصواب أنه إذا كان متعديا فمصدره السح كالنصر من نصر، وإذا كان من اللازم فمصدره السحوح بالضم كالخروج من خرج، ونحوه.

Our Sheikh said: The apparent meaning of his words, like Al-Jauhari, is that Al-Sah and Al-Sahuh are masdars for the transitive and intransitive, and the correct view is that if it is transitive, its masdar is Al-Sah like Al-Nasr from Nasara, and if it is intransitive, its masdar is Al-Sahuh with damma like Al-Khurooj from Kharaja, and the like.

سمعت البحرانيين يقولون لجنس من (القسب) : السح.

I heard the people of Bahrain say about a type of (palm spathe): Al-Sah.

ويقال لتمرها: سح عريفجان.

And its dates are called: Suh Uraifijan.

أو السح: تمر يابس لم ينضح بماء متفرق منثور على وجه الأرض، لم يجمع في وعاء، ولم يكنز؛ وهو مجاز، كالسح، بالضم، قال ابن دريد: لغة يمانية.

Or Al-Sah: dried dates that have not been moistened with water, scattered on the ground, not gathered in a container, and not stored; and this is metaphorical, like Al-Sah, with damma, said Ibn Duraid: a Yemeni dialect.

السح: الضرب والطعن (والجلد).

Al-Sah: striking, stabbing, and flogging.

يقال: سحه مائة سوط يسحه سحا، أي جلده.

It is said: He struck him with a hundred lashes, he strikes him abundantly, meaning he flogged him.

السح والسحوح: أن يسمن غاية السمن، أو يسمن ولم ينته الغاية.

Al-Sah and Al-Sahuh: to become extremely fat, or to become fat without reaching the extreme.

وقد سحت الشاة والبقرة تسح، بالكسر، سحا وسحوحا وسحوحة: إذا سمنت؛ حكاها أبو حنيفة عن أبي زيد، وزاد ابن التياني: سحوحة.

And the sheep and cow became fat, they become fat, with kasra, abundantly and very abundantly and very abundantly: if they became fat; Abu Hanifa narrated it from Abu Zayd, and Ibn Al-Tiyani added: Sahuhah.

وقال اللحياني: سحت تسح، بضم السين، ونقله الزمخشري.

And Al-Lihyani said: Sahat, it becomes fat, with damma of the sin, and Al-Zamakhshari narrated it.

وقال أبو معد الكلابي: مهزول، ثم منق إذا سمن قليلا، ثم شنون، ثم سمين، ثم ساح، ثم مترطم: وهو الذي انتهى سمنا.

And Abu Ma'add Al-Kilabi said: emaciated, then slightly plump if it gains a little weight, then lean, then fat, then very fat, then extremely fat: which is the one that has reached the peak of fatness.

وشاة ساحة وساح بغير هاء، الأخيرة على النسب.

And a sheep that is fat and a very fat one without ha, the latter is by attribution.

وغنم سحاح، بالكسر، وسحاح بالضم، أي سمان، الأخيرة (نادرة)

And sheep that are fat, with kasra, and fat, with damma, meaning plump, the latter (is rare).

وزاد أبو مسحل في (نوادره) أنه يقال: شياه سحاح، بالضم مع تشديد الحاء، على القياس في جمع فاعل أنثى على فعال، بتشديد العين، وهاذا غريب لم يتعرض له أكثر أهل اللغة.

And Abu Musahhil added in (his rare books) that it is said: sheep that are fat, with damma and shadda on the ha, according to the analogy for the feminine plural of fa'il to f'aal, with shadda on the ain, and this is strange, most linguists did not address it.

وفي حديث الزبير: (والدنيا أهون علي من منحة ساحة)

And in the hadith of Al-Zubair: (And the world is easier for me than a gift of a fat (sheep)).

ويروى: (سحساحة)، وهو بمعناه.

And it is narrated: (very fat), and it means the same.

ولحم ساح: قال الأصمعي: كأنه من سمنه يصب الودك.

And fat meat: Al-Asma'i said: It is as if its fatness pours out the grease.

وفي حديث ابن عباس: (مررت على جزور ساح)، أي سمينة.

And in the hadith of Ibn Abbas: (I passed by a fat camel), meaning plump.

وفي حديث ابن مسعود: (يلقى شيطان الكافر شيطان المؤمن شاحبا أغبر مهزولا، وهاذا ساح)، أي سمين، يعني شيطان الكافر.

And in the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud: (The devil of the disbeliever meets the devil of the believer, pale, dusty, emaciated, and this one is fat), meaning the devil of the disbeliever.

فرس مسح، بالكسر، أي جواد سريع،، كأنه يصب الجري صبا، شبه بالمطر في سرعة انصبابه، كذا في (جامع القزاز).

A swift horse, with kasra, meaning an excellent, fast horse, as if it pours its speed, likened to rain in its speed of pouring, thus in (Jami' Al-Qazzaz).

والسحسح: عرصة الدار وعرصة المحلة، كالسحسحة.

And Al-Suhsuh: the courtyard of the house and the courtyard of the settlement, like Al-Suhsuhah.

قال الأحمر: اذهب فلا أرينك بسحسحي وسحاي.

Al-Ahmar said: Go, and I do not want to see you in my courtyard and my open space.

وقال ابن الأعرابي: يقال: نزل فلان بسحسحه، أي بناحيته وساحته.

And Ibn Al-A'rabi said: It is said: So-and-so descended in his courtyard, meaning in his vicinity and his open space.

السحسح (: الشديد من المطر) يسح جدا، يقشر وجه الأرض، (كالسحساح)، بالفتح أيضا.

The heavy rain: (the intense rain) pours very much, stripping the face of the earth, (like the heavy rain), also with fatha.

وعين سحاحة، وفي نسخة: سحساحة، وهو الصواب: (صبابة للدمع) أي كثيرة الصب له.

And an eye with abundant tears, and in a copy: with abundant tears, which is correct: (fondness for tears) meaning abundant pouring of it.

عن الفراء قال: هو السحاح (كسحاب: الهواء)

From Al-Farra' he said: It is Al-Sihah (like Sahab: the air).

انسح إبط البعير عرقا فهو منسح أي انصب.

The camel's armpit poured sweat, so it is pouring, meaning it flowed.

يمين الله سحاء، لا يغيضها شيء الليل والنهار

The oath of God is pouring, nothing diminishes it, night and day.

وفي رواية: (يمين الله ملأى سحا)، بالتنوين على المصدر.

And in another narration: (The oath of God is full, pouring), with tanwin on the masdar.

وفي حديث أبي بكر أنه قال لأسامة حين أنفذ جيشه إلى الشام: (أغر عليهم غارة سحاء)، أي تسح عليهم البلاء دفعة من غير تلبث.

And in the hadith of Abu Bakr that he said to Usama when he sent his army to Sham: (Make a sudden raid upon them), meaning calamity pours down on them suddenly without delay.

وربت غارة أوضعت فيها كسح الخزرجي جريم تمر معناه أي صببت على أعدائي كصب الخزرجي جريم التمر، وهو النوى.

And perhaps a raid in which I charged, like the Khazraji's pouring of date pits, meaning I poured upon my enemies like the Khazraji's pouring of date pits, which are the date stones.

وحلف سح، أي منصب متتابع

And an oath that is pouring, meaning continuous.

وطعنة مسحسحة: سائلة، وأنشد: مسحسحة تعلو ظهور الأنال

And a flowing stab: flowing, and he recited: flowing, it rises on the backs of the spears.

وأرض سحسح: واسعة.

And a wide land: vast.

استنشدته قصيدة فسحها علي! سحا.

I asked him to recite a poem, and he poured it out to me! Abundantly.