سُرًى
Root: سرى
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سُرًى
, [said by some to be an Verbal.Noun, by some to be a simple subst., and by some to be pl. of سُرْيَةٌ, or supposed to be so, and therefore made fem., as mentioned in the first sentence of this art.,] meaning A journeying, or travelling, by night, or in the night, in a general sense, is masc. and fem., by some of the Arabs made fem., and not known to Lh but as a fem. noun. It is said in a prov.,
[At daybreak, the party commend night-journeying]: applied to the man who endures difficulty, or distress, or fatigue, hoping for rest, or ease: and in inciting to labour for the accomplishment of an affair with patience, and to dispose and subject the mind, until one commends the result thereof.عِنْدَ الصَّبَاحِ يَحْمَدُ القَوْمُ السُّرَى
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