سهر

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Form 1سَهِرَ3 senses · 1 main

muḍāriʿـَيَفْعَلُmaṣdarسَهَرٌ

Core sense — he stayed awake at night, he did not sleepgenerated

1.1he remained awake during the night, or a part of the night—سَهِرَ اللَّيْلَ

He waked, was sleepless or wakeful by night; he kept himself from sleep by night; he remained awake all the night or a part of it..

[He passed the night, or a part of the night, without sleeping.]

he remained awake during the night, or a part of the night—بَعْضَ اللَّيْلِ

I remained awake last night—سَهِرْتُ البَارِحَةَ

1.1.1What is wrong with him? May he be sleepless by night, and may he grieve—مَالَهُ سَهِرَ وَعَهِرَ

An imprecation used by the Arabs. Abu Zeyd, in this article and in article عبر.

1.1.2figurative · مجازthe lightning gleamed during the night—سَهِرَ البَرْقُ

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, aor. سَهَرَ , inf. n. سَهَرٌ , He waked, was sleepless or wakeful, or did not sleep, by night; (S, K;) he abstained from sleep by night; (Lth;) he remained awake all the night or a part thereof: you say سَهِرَ اللَّيْلَ , or بَعْضَ اللَّيْلِ , He remained awake during the night, or a part of the night: (Msb:) [he passed the night, or a part of the night, sleepless, or without sleeping:] and سَهِرْتُ البَارِحَةَ I remained awake last night. (A.) مَالَهُ سَهِرَ وَعَهِرَ What aileth him? May he be sleepless by night, and may he grieve, or mourn, is an imprecation of the Arabs. (AZ, TA in this art. and art. عبر .) سَهِرَ البَرْقُ The lightning gleamed, or glistened, during the night. (A.)

Form 3مُسَاهَرَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — being sleepless, or awake, along with anothergenerated

3.1he passed the night sleepless, as the stars do—ساهر النُّجُومَ

Being sleepless, or awake, together with another; [and vying with another in remaining awake:] and [like إِسْهَارٌ, though I think this doubtful,] making someone sleepless or awake.

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signifies The being sleepless, or awake, with another: (KL, and Har p. 329:) [and the vying with another in remaining sleepless or awake:] and [like إِسْهَارٌ , but I think this doubtful,] the making [one] sleepless or awake. (KL.) ساهر النُّجُومَ means He passed the night sleepless like as do the stars. (Har ubi suprà.)

Form 4اسهرهُ1 sense

Core sense — it made him sleepless, it kept him awakegenerated

4.1

He, or it — such as anxiety, trouble of mind, or pain — made him wake, made him sleepless, or kept him awake.

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He, (S, Msb,) or it, (A,) as anxiety, or trouble of mind, and pain, (TA,) caused him to wake, to be sleepless, or wakeful, or to remain awake. (S, A, Msb, TA.)

Derived nouns 10

Nounسَهَرٌ1 sense

Core sense — sleeplessness, wakefulness by nightgenerated

See سَاهُورٌ.

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: see سَاهُورٌ .

Nounسُهَرَةٌ1 sense

Core sense — one who stays awake much by night, wakefulgenerated

See سَاهِرٌ.

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: see سَاهِرٌ .

Nounسَهْرَانٌ1 sense

Core sense — awake by night, sleeplessgenerated

See سَاهِرٌ.

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: see سَاهِرٌ .

Nounسُهَارٌ1 sense

Core sense — a state of waking, sleeplessness, wakefulnessgenerated

A state of waking; sleeplessness, or wakefulness; the same as سُهَادٌ, as is also سَاهُورٌ.

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A state of waking; sleeplessness, or wakefulness; (K;) i. q. سُهَادٌ ; (T;) as also سَاهُورٌ . (K.)

Nounسَهَّارٌ1 sense

Core sense — one who stays awake much by nightgenerated

See سَاهِرٌ, in two places.

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: see سَاهِرٌ , in two places.

Nounسَاهِرٌ7 senses · 1 main

Core sense — awake by night, sleepless; a running spring; a wide tract of landgenerated

1awake by night, sitting up, sleepless, not sleeping—سَهْرَانٌ

awake by night, sleepless, remaining awake all the night or a part of it—سَهَّارٌ

wakeful, waking much by night—سُهَرَةٌ

The last of these is an intensive adjective, [and so is the third, and sometimes the second].

a man whom sleep does not overcome—رَجُلٌ سَهَّارُ العَيْنِ

1.1figurative · مجازlightning gleaming during the night—بَرْقٌ سَاهِرٌ

1.2figurative · مجازa night of waking, or of sleeplessness—لَيْلٌ سَاهرِ

As one also says لَيْلٌ نَائِمٌ.

1.3figurative · مجاز — inferreda she-camel that yields milk long and abundantly—سَاهِرَةُ العِرْقِ

1.4figurative · مجازa running spring; a spring that runs night and day without stopping—عَيْنٌ سَاهِرَةٌ

the best of property is a spring of water that runs night and day while its owner is sleeping—خَيْرُ المَالِ عَيْنٌ سَاهِرَةٌ لِعَيْنٍ نَائِمَةٍ

Said in a tradition; the owner has his mind unoccupied by it.

1.5figurative · مجازland that produces plants quickly—أَرْضٌ سَاهِرَةٌ

As though it passed the night doing so.

1.6figurative · مجازa wide tract of land, the traveller of which remains awake during the night—سَاهِرَةٌ

Also used alone in this sense.

Or the earth, or land; or the surface of the earth, because it produces plants alike by night and by day: Ibn-Es-Seed. So in the Kur 79:14.

Or Hell: Katádeh. Or a certain mountain of Jerusalem: Wahb Ibn-Munebbih. Or the land of Syria: Mukátil.

Or a desert, the same as فَلَاةٌ, the traveller of which remains awake during the night; or an untrodden land; or a land which God will create anew on the day of resurrection; or a land on which no one has disobeyed God: Ibn-Es-Seed.

Qur’ān 79:14 approximate — somewhere between 79:1 and 79:28 Lane cites “Kur lxxix. 14”

Qur’ān 79:14 the verse Lane’s citation points to, and it uses this root

فَإِذَا هُم بِٱلسَّاهِرَةِ

When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment).Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’ān (1934)

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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, رَجُلٌ سَهَّارُ العَيْنِ A man whom sleep does not overcome. (Lh.) بَرْقٌ سَاهِرٌ Lightning gleaming, or glistening, during the night. (A.) لَيْلٌ سَاهرِ A night of waking or sleeplessness or wakefulness: (K:) like as one says لَيْلٌ نَائِمٌ . (TA.) سَاهِرَةُ العِرْقِ A she-camel that yields milk long and abundantly. (TA.) عَيْنٌ سَاهِرَةٌ 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 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.) أَرْضٌ سَاهِرَةٌ Land that produces plants quickly: as though it passed the night doing so. (A.) Also سَاهِرَةٌ [alone], 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.)

Nounسَاهِرَةٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — awake by night; a wide tract of land, the surface of the earthgenerated

Feminine of سَاهِرٌ.

1.1

See also سَاهُورٌ.

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fem. of سَاهِرٌ [q. v.]. See also سَاهُورٌ .

Nounسَاهِرِيَّةٌ1 sense

Core sense — a certain perfumegenerated

A certain perfume; so called because one is kept sleepless in preparing it and making it good.

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A certain perfume: [so called] because one is caused to be sleepless in preparing it, and making it good. (Sgh, K.)

Nounسَاهُورٌ7 senses · 2 main

Core sense — the sheath of the moon; the moon itself; the last nine nights of the monthgenerated

See سَهَارٌ.

2it has entered into its sheath—دَخَلَ فِى سَاهُورِهِ

Also the sheath of the moon, which it enters when it is eclipsed, as the Arabs assert; also سَاهِرَةٌ.

Said of the moon when it is eclipsed.

[Or] the shade, or shadow, of the سَاهِرَة, that is, of the surface of the earth.

2.1

The moon itself; also سَهَرٌ, which is of Syriac origin, according to IDrd.

2.2

The halo of the moon; a Syriac word.

2.3the last nine nights of the lunar month—السَّاهُورُ

Or it is لَيَالِى السَّاهُورِ that has this meaning, because the moon is absent in the first part of them.

2.4the source of a spring of water—سَاهُورٌ

2.5

Also multitude, abundance.

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: see سَهَارٌ . Also The sheath of the moon, (S, K,) which it enters when it is eclipsed, (TA,) accord. to the assertion of the Arabs; (S, TA;) as also سَاهِرَةٌ . (K.) One says, of the moon, when it is eclipsed, دَخَلَ فِى سَاهُورِهِ It has entered into its sheath. (Kt.) [Or] The shade, or shadow, of the سَاهِرَة , i. e., of the surface of the earth. (S, K.) The moon (K, TA) itself; as also سَهَرٌ ; of Syriac origin, accord to IDrd. (TA.) The halo ( دَارَة ) of the moon: (K:) a Syriac word. (TA.) And السَّاهُورُ , The last nine nights of the lunar month: (K:) or so لَيَالِى السَّاهُورِ : because the moon is absent in its first part. (ISk.) Also سَاهُورٌ , The source of a spring of water. (K, * TA.) And Multitude; abundance. (K.)

Nounالأَسْهَرَانِ1 sense

Core sense — two ducts in the nostrils; two ducts through which the seminal fluid runsgenerated

1figurative · مجاز

Two ducts inside the two nostrils, which flow with water, or with blood, when an ass is excited by lust.

So in the verse of Esh-Shemmákh: [She seeks to escape from a strong he-ass whom the ducts of his two nostrils, flowing with mucus, have wearied]

shāhid

تُوَائِلُ مِنْ مِصَكٍّ أَنْصَبَتْهُحَوَالِبُ أَسْهَرَيْهِ بِالذَّنِينِ

Or the nose and the penis; or two ducts in the flesh and sinew next the back-bone, through which the seminal fluid runs into the penis; or two ducts rising from the two testicles and meeting together in the interior of the penis, or of the فَيْشَلَة [or glans of the penis], these being the ducts of the seminal fluid; or the two veins of the penis that become prominent when it is erect; and two veins, or ducts, in the eye.

But As disallows اسهريه, and says that the true reading in the verse of Esh-Shemmákh is أَسْهَرَتْهُ, meaning that they have not let him sleep. [See also حَالِبٌ.]

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Two ducts ( عِرْقَانِ ) in the two nostrils, (S, K, *) in the inside, (TA,) which, when an ass is excited by lust, flow with water, (S, TA,) or with blood: (TA:) so in the verse of Esh-Shemmákh, 1 [She seeks to escape from a strong (he-ass) whom the ducts of his two nostrils flowing with mucus have fatigued]: (S:) or the nose and the penis: (Sh, K:) or (TA, but in the K “ and ”) two ducts in the flesh and sinew next the back-bone, through which runs the seminal fluid into the penis: (K:) or (TA) two ducts rising from the two testicles, and meeting together in the interior of the penis, (K,) or of the فَيْشَلَة [or glans of the penis]; which are the ducts of the seminal fluid: (TA:) or the two veins or ducts of the penis which become prominent when it is in a state of erection: (TA:) and two veins or ducts in the eye: (K:) but As disallows اسهريه , and says that the true reading, in the verse of Esh-Shemmákh, is أَسْهَرَتْهُ , meaning, [that] have not suffered him to sleep. (TA.) [See also حَالِبٌ .] تُوَائِلُ مِنْ مِصَكٍّ أَنْصَبَتْهُ | حَوَالِبُ أَسْهَرَيْهِ بِالذَّنِينِ