سَرَاحٌ

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سَرَاحٌ a subst. from تَسْرِيحُ المَرْأَةِ; [i. e., a subst.] signifying The dismissal of a wife by divorcement: like طَلَاقٌ and فِرَاقٌ, it signifies divorcement explicitly.
2 [And Dismissal in a general sense. Hence,] it is said in a prov., السَّرَاحُ مِنَ النَّجَاحِ [i. e. Dismissal is a part of the accomplishment of one's want]; meaning, when thou canst not accomplish a man's want, make him to despair; for thy doing so will be in his estimation an act that will stand him in lieu of thy helping him to accomplish it: (S, L: [in some copies of the former, for فَأَيْئِسْهُ, we find فَآيَسْتَهُ:]) or it is applied to a man who does not desire to accomplish the want [of another]; and means, it behooves thee to make him to despair if thou accomplish not his want. (Meyd. [See a similar prov. voce شَرَاحٌ.])
3 Also Haste, ex- pedition, or promptness.
4 And Ease: so in the saying, اِفْعَلْ ذٰلِكَ فِى سَرَاحٍ وَرَوَاحٍ i. e. Do thou that in a state of ease (S and A and K in art. روح) and rest.

def.2 سَرَاحِ [indecl.] like قَطَامِ, [app. as meaning The quick, or quick and easy in pace, like السُّرُحُ,] the name of a certain horse.

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