سَرِيعٌ
Root: سرع
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سَرِيعٌ
Quick, expeditious, hasty, speedy, rapid, swift, or fleet; [in course, tendency, action, speech, &c.;] as also
سَرِعٌ [and
سَرْعٌ ] and
سُرَاعٌ , of which the fem. is with ة, and
, of which the fem. is سَرْعَى; i. q.
مُسْرِعٌ , which signifies as above; [and which also signifies hastening, making haste, or speeding;] and
مِسْرَعٌ , also, signifies quick, &c., (سَرِيع,) to [do] good or evil: the pl. of سريع is سُرْعَانٌ, and سِرَاعٌ is [also a pl. of the same,] syn. with مُسْرِعُونَ. You say, فَرَسٌ سَرِيعٌ and
سُرَاعٌ [A quick, swift, or fleet, horse]: and
حِجْرٌ meaning سَرِيعَةٌ [a quick, swift, or fleet, mare]. And
اِسْعَ عَلَى رِجْلِكَ [Go thou quickly; lit. go thou, or walk thou, or run thou, upon thy quick, or swift, leg]. And
جَآءَ meaning سَرِيعًا [He, or it, came quickly, hastily, speedily, &c.]. And God is said [in the Kur ii. 198, &c.] to be سَرِيعُ الحِسَابِ [Quick in reckoning], meaning that his reckoning will inevitably come to pass; or that one reckoning will not divert Him from another reckoning, nor one thing from another thing; or that his actions are quick, none of them being later than He desireth, because it is done without manual operation and without effort, so that He will reckon with mankind, after raising them from death and congregating them, in the twinkling of an eye, without numbering, or calculating: and [in like manner He is said in the same, chap. vi., last verse, to be] سَرِيعُ العِقَابِ [quick in punishing].
2 Also A certain kind of going, or pace; coupled with سُنْبُكٌ, which signifies another kind thereof.
3 [السَّرِيعُ The ninth metre (بَحْر) in prosody, in which each hemistich originally consisted of مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ مَفْعُولَاتُ.]
4 And أَبُو سَرِيعٍ The [shrub called] عَرْفَج: or the fire that is therein. (K. [See زَحْفَةٌ.])
def.2 Also A shoot, or twig, that falls from the بَشَام [or tree of the balsam of Mekkeh]: pl. سِرْعَانٌ and سُرْعَانٌ.
2 Also A certain kind of going, or pace; coupled with سُنْبُكٌ, which signifies another kind thereof.
3 [السَّرِيعُ The ninth metre (بَحْر) in prosody, in which each hemistich originally consisted of مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ مَفْعُولَاتُ.]
4 And أَبُو سَرِيعٍ The [shrub called] عَرْفَج: or the fire that is therein. (K. [See زَحْفَةٌ.])
def.2 Also A shoot, or twig, that falls from the بَشَام [or tree of the balsam of Mekkeh]: pl. سِرْعَانٌ and سُرْعَانٌ.
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