سَاهِرٌ

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سَاهِرٌ and سَهْرَانٌ and سَهَّارٌ and سُهَرَةٌ , the last of which is an intensive epithet, [and so is the third, and sometimes the second,] Waking, sitting up, sleepless, wakeful, or not sleeping, by night; [abstaining from sleep by night;] remaining awake all the night or a part thereof: and the last, [and third, and sometimes the second,] wakeful, or waking much, &c. You say, رَجُلٌ العَيْنِ A man whom sleep does not overcome.
2 بَرْقٌ سَاهِرٌ Lightning gleaming, or glistening, during the night.
3 لَيْلٌ سَاهرِ A night of waking or sleeplessness or wakefulness: like as one says لَيْلٌ نَائِمٌ.
4 سَاهِرَةُ العِرْقِ A she-camel that yields milk long and abundantly.
5 عَيْنٌ سَاهِرَةٌ A running spring or fountain: a spring or fountain that runs night and day, unremittingly. 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; its owner having his mind unoccupied by it.
6 أَرْضٌ سَاهِرَةٌ Land that produces plants quickly: as though it passed the night doing so.
7 Also سَاهِرَةٌ [alone], A wide, or an extensive, tract of land, the traverser of which remains awake during the night: or the earth, or land: or the surface of the earth: because it produces plants or herbage alike by night and day: so in the Kur lxxix. 14: or a desert, syn. فَلَاةٌ, the traverser 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 none has disobeyed God: or Hell: or [in the Kur ubi suprà] a certain mountain of Jerusalem: or the land of Syria.

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