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سَحَلَهُ

Root: سحل

Form: 1

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سَحَلَهُI , aor ـَ Verbal.Noun سَحْلٌ, He pared it; peeled it; or stripped off, scraped off, rubbed off, abraded, or otherwise removed, its outer covering or integument, or superficial part: or he pared, peeled, or stripped, it off: this is the primary signification: and he filed it. It is said in a trad., فَجَعَلَتْ تَسْحَلُهَا لَهُ, i. e. And she betook herself to paring off from it the flesh that was upon it for him: or, as some relate it, تَسْحَاهَا, which means the same.
2 [Hence,] الرِّيَاحُ تَسْحَلُ الأَرْضَ The winds strip off what is upon the earth, or the surface of the earth.
3 And سَحَلَهُ مِائَةَ سَوْطٍ, Verbal.Noun as above, He struck him a hundred lashes, or strokes of a whip, and pared off his skin, or as though he pared off his skin.
4 And سَحَلَ فُلَانٌ Such a one reviled [another], and blamed [him: like as you say, قَشَرَ بِاللِّسَانِ]. (K. [See مِسْحَلٌ as meaning “ a tongue. ”]) One says, وَجَدَ النَّاسَ يَسْحَلُونَهُ He found the people reviling him, and blaming him, and speaking evil of him behind his back, or in his absence, or otherwise.
5 سَحَلْتُ الشَّىْءَ i. q. سَحَقْتُهُ [I bruised, brayed, or pounded, the thing: or pulverized it: &c.].
6 سَحَلَ الثِّيَابَ He washed the clothes, [beating them in doing so,] and removed [or rubbed off] from them the soils.
7 سَحَلْتُ الدَّرَاهِمَ I made the pieces of money smooth. Accord. to ISk, I poured out, or forth, the pieces of money; as though I rubbed them, one against another. [Or] سَحَلَ الدَّرَاهِمَ, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun, i. q. اِنْتَقَدَهَا [which signifies He picked the pieces of money, separating the good from the bad; or examined them to do so: and also he received the pieces of money]. And سَحَلْتُهُ مِائَةَ دِرْهَمٍ I paid him a hundred dirhems in ready money. [Or] سَحَلَ الغَرِيمَ مِائَةَ دِرْهَمٍ He paid the creditor a hundred dirhems in ready money.

def.2 سَحَلَ الثَّوْبَ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He wove the garment, or piece of cloth, of spun thread not formed of two twists: or he wove it without having twisted its warp [i. e. without having made its warp to consist of threads of two twists].
2 And سَحَلْتُ الحَبْلَ I formed the rope of a single twist; and accord. to some, one says also , but the former is the chaste expression. [Hence,] سُحِلَتْ مَرِيرَةُ فُلَانٍ is said of one whose strength has become weakened; meaning His well-twisted rope, or rope of two twists, has become a rope of a single twist.
3 سَحَلَ القِرَآءَةَ, Verbal.Noun سَحْلٌ, He performed the reading, or recitation, in consecutive portions, continuously: and some relate it with ج [i. e. سَجَلَ]: سَحْلٌ is syn. with سَرْدٌ, signifying the making [a thing] to be consecutive in its parts, or portions.
4 بَاتَتِ السَّمَآءُ تَسْحَلُ لَيْلَتَهَا The sky continued pouring forth water that night: Verbal.Noun as above.
5 And سَحَلَتِ العَيْنُ, Present.T as above, Verbal.Noun سَحْلٌ and سُحُولٌ, The eye wept; poured forth tears.

def.3 سَحَلَ, Present.T ـِ and ـَ Verbal.Noun سَحِيلٌ and سُحَالٌ, (S, * K, [the latter Verbal.Noun erroneously written in the CK سِحال,]) He made a rolling sound in his chest; whence the ass of the desert is called مِسْحَلٌ : (S: [see also سَحِيلٌ below:]) he brayed.
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