سَارِيَةٌ
Root: سرى
Full Definition
2 And A cloud that comes by night: or clouds that travel by night: or a cloud that is between that which comes in the early morning and that which comes in the evening: [perhaps thus termed as having previously travelled in the night:] or, accord. to Lh, a rain that comes in the night: pl. سَوَارِى [app. a mistranscription for سَوَارٍ, being indeterminate].
3 One says, جَآءَ صَبِيحَةَ سَارِيَةٍ He came in the morning of a night in which was rain.
4 And the pl. السَّارِيَاتُ signifies The asses: or the wild asses: because they rest not by night: or because they pasture by night.
def.2 Also A column, syn. أُسْطُوَانَةٌ, of stone, or of baked bricks; so in the “ Bári': ” pl. سَوَارٍ.
2 [And A mast: see حَنَّ and صَرَّ: and see also صَارِيَةٌ.]
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