سَاهٍ
Root: سهو
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سَاهٍ
Unmindful, forgetful, neglectful, heedless, or inadvertent; as also
; whence the prov.,
2 See also سَهوٌ.
i. e. Only the unmindful [lit. the sons of the unmindful] are such as require to be enjoined: or, as some say, by بنو سهوان are meant all mankind; because all become unmindful: but the most correct explanation is, that those who are enjoined to do a thing are subject to unmindfulness: it is applied to him who is unmindful of pursuing that which he is commanded to do: and سهوان may be syn. with [the Verbal.Noun] سَهْوٌ; or it may be an epithet, syn. with سَاهٍ, and is applied to Adam, because he forgot his cove-إِنَّ المُوَصَّيْنَ بَنُو سَهْوَانْ
2 See also سَهوٌ.
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