صَارِخٌ
Root: صرخ
Full Definition
2 Also, and صَرِيخٌ , or the latter [only] of these, and مُصْرِخٌ , and صَارِخَةٌ , Aiding, or succouring; or an aider, or a succourer: Az says that he had not heard صَارِخٌ in this sense on the authority of any except As; but that all men agree that it has the second of the senses given above, and that مُصْرِخٌ has the last of those senses. عَبْدٌ أَمَةٌ, meaning [A male slave] whose aider [is a female slave], is a prov. applied in the case of a mean man who is aided by one meaner than he. And it is said in the Kur [xiv. 27], مَا أَنَا بِمُصْرِخِكُمْ وَمَا أَنْتُمْ I am not your aiders, nor are ye my aiders.
3 الصَّارِخُ is an appellation of The cock; because he cries much in the night: and it is said by some to be tropical.
4 And صَارِخٌ signifies also A voice, or cry, informing a man of an event on account of which his aid is invoked, or announcing to him a death.
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