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سَيَّحَ

Root: سيح

Form: 2

Full Definition

سَيَّحَII [سيّح is said by Golius, as on the authority of the K, to signify He made water to flow: and this is probably its primary and proper signification, whence other meanings, which are tropical: but it is not in the K.]
2 See 4.
3 سيّح فُلَانٌ, [app. for سيّح كَلَامَهُ,] Verbal.Noun تَسْيِيحٌ, Such a one talked much.
4 And سُيِّحَ, Verbal.Noun as above, It had in it [or was diversified with] various stripes. [And in like manner it is said of other things: see its part. n., مُسَيَّحٌ.]
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