صَهْ
Root: صه
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صَهْ
, as also صَهٍ, and صَهِ, and صَهًا, a word used in chiding the person [or persons] to whom it is said, thus in the M, or rather it is a verbal noun, used in commanding silence, meaning Be silent, addressed to a single person, and to two persons, and to a pl. number, and to a male, and to a female: and one says also صَهٍ صَهْ: Mbr says, if you say, صَهٍ يَا رَجُلُ [Be silent, O man], it is to distinguish between that which is determinate and that which is indeterminate; صَهٍ being indeterminate: [i. e.,] as IJ says, the saying صَهٍ, with tenween, is as though you said سُكُوتًا; and when you pronounce it without tenween, it is as though you said السُّكُوتَ: or, as IAth says, when with tenween, it is as though you said, اُسْكُتْ سُكُوتًا; and when without tenween, as though you said, اُسْكُتِ السُّكُوتَ المَعْرُوفَ مِنْكَ.
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