سَرْحٌ
Root: سرح
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سَرْحٌ
Cattle, or camels &c., pasturing, or pasturing where they please, by themselves: or only such as are sent, or driven, forth [to pasture] in the morning, and brought, or driven, back in the evening to their nightly resting-place: an Verbal.Noun used as a subst. A'Obeyd says that سَرْحٌ and
سَارِحٌ and
signify Cattle, or camels &c.: and Khálid Ibn-Jembeh says that
means camels and sheep or goats: and a single beast; as well as a collection [of beasts].
def.2 Also A certain kind of trees, of great size, and tall, not depastured, or seldom eaten by the camels &c., but used for their shade: they grow in Nejd, in plain, or soft, and in rugged ground, but not in sand nor upon a mountain; and have a yellow fruit: n. un. with ة: and it is said to be the same as the آء: but this is a mistake; the fact being that it bears a kind of berry termed آء, resembling the olive: or any trees without thorns: n. un. in this sense with ة: or any tall trees: or [trees] of the kind called عِضَاه, great, with spreading branches, beneath which men alight in the صَيْف [or summer]: accord. to AHn, the سَرْحَة is a great tree with spreading branches, beneath which people often alight, widely extending; men alight beneath it in the صَيْف [or summer], and pitch tents, or build houses, beneath it; and its shade is good: accord. to information given to Az by an Arab of the desert not known by him to have uttered a lie, it has a dusty colour, is not so tall as the أَثْل [a species of tamarisk], has small leaves, and lank branches, or twigs, and always grows slanting, its inclination among all the trees being towards the south (اليَمِين): Lth says that the سَرْح are a kind of trees that have a fruit, and they are the أَلَآء (الالآء [app. a mistranscription for الآء, i. e. the آء,]); but Az says that this is a mistake: Lth cites the saying of' Antarah,
2 The n. un., سَرْحَةٌ, is applied to signify
3 [Accord. to Forskål, the name of سرح is applied to a plant of the class pentandria, which he terms Cadaba farinosa, growing in the lower region of the mountains of Wádee-Surdud, in Tihámeh.]
def.3 Also The exterior court or yard of a house, or, as in the L, of a gate, or door.
def.2 Also A certain kind of trees, of great size, and tall, not depastured, or seldom eaten by the camels &c., but used for their shade: they grow in Nejd, in plain, or soft, and in rugged ground, but not in sand nor upon a mountain; and have a yellow fruit: n. un. with ة: and it is said to be the same as the آء: but this is a mistake; the fact being that it bears a kind of berry termed آء, resembling the olive: or any trees without thorns: n. un. in this sense with ة: or any tall trees: or [trees] of the kind called عِضَاه, great, with spreading branches, beneath which men alight in the صَيْف [or summer]: accord. to AHn, the سَرْحَة is a great tree with spreading branches, beneath which people often alight, widely extending; men alight beneath it in the صَيْف [or summer], and pitch tents, or build houses, beneath it; and its shade is good: accord. to information given to Az by an Arab of the desert not known by him to have uttered a lie, it has a dusty colour, is not so tall as the أَثْل [a species of tamarisk], has small leaves, and lank branches, or twigs, and always grows slanting, its inclination among all the trees being towards the south (اليَمِين): Lth says that the سَرْح are a kind of trees that have a fruit, and they are the أَلَآء (الالآء [app. a mistranscription for الآء, i. e. the آء,]); but Az says that this is a mistake: Lth cites the saying of' Antarah,
i. e. He is a man of valour, tall of stature, as though his clothes were upon a great tree such as is called سرحة; sandals of سبت [q. v.] are cut and made for him, such as are worn by the kings; and he is not a twin; so that he has been well suckled: thus he describes this person as tall of stature, showing that the سرحة is a large tree: but the الآء [or آء] has no trunk nor tallness: IAar says that the سَرْح are ذَكْوَان that have become large; and the ذكوان are certain trees having beautiful [shoots such as are termed] عَسَالِيج: the pl. is سِرَاحٌ.بَطَلٌ كَأَنَّ ثِيَابَهُ فِى سَرْحَةٍ تُحْذَى نِعَالُ السِّبْتِ لَيْسَ بِتَوْءَمِ
2 The n. un., سَرْحَةٌ, is applied to signify
3 [Accord. to Forskål, the name of سرح is applied to a plant of the class pentandria, which he terms Cadaba farinosa, growing in the lower region of the mountains of Wádee-Surdud, in Tihámeh.]
def.3 Also The exterior court or yard of a house, or, as in the L, of a gate, or door.
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