سَابِحٌ

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سَابِحٌ and سَبَّاحٌ and سَبُوحٌ are part. ns., or epithets, from سَبَحَ in the first of the senses assigned to it above: [the first signifies Swimming, or a swimmer:] the second has an intensive signification [i. e. one who swims much, or a great swimmer; as also the third]: the pl. of the first, accord. to IAar, not of the first and last as it appears to be accord. to the K, is سُبَحَآءُ: that of the second is سَبَّاحُونَ: and that of the third is سُبُحٌ or سِبَاحٌ, the former reg., and the latter irreg.
2 السَّابِحَات, in the Kur [lxxix. 3], accord. to Az, means The ships: or the souls of the believers أَرْوَاحُ المُؤْمِنِينَ [for which Golius seems to have found in a copy of the K أَزْوَاجُ المُؤْمِنِينَ, for he gives as an explanation piæ et fidelium uxores,,]) which go forth with ease: or the angels that swim, or glide, (تَسْبَحُ,) from (من [app. a mistranscription for بَيْنَ between]) the heaven and the earth: or the stars, which swim, or glide along, (تَسْبَحُ,) in the firmament, like the سَابِح in water. [The meanings fœminæ jejunantes and veloces equi and planetæ, assigned to this word by Golius as on the authority of the KL, are in that work assigned to سَائِحَات; the first of them as the meaning of this word in the Kur lxvi. 5.] And you say نُجُومٌ سَوَابِحُ [Stars gliding along in the firmament: سوابح being a pl. of سَابِحٌ applied to an irrational thing, and of سَابِحَةٌ].
3 سَابِحٌ is also applied as an epithet to a horse, meaning That stretches forth his fore legs well in running [like as one does the arms in swimming]; and in like manner سَبُوحٌ [but in an intensive sense]: the pl. [of the former] is سَوَابِحُ and سُبَّحٌ. And سَوَابِحُ also signified Horses; as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant; because they thus stretch forth their fore legs in running. Hence, is the name of A horse of Rabeea Ibn-Jusham. And in like manner, is the name of A celebrated courser: and of A certain camel.

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