Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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سير سيع سيغ


1. ⇒ سيعساع

سَاعَ, aor. يَسِيعُ, inf. n. سَيْعٌ and سُيُوعٌ, It (water, and the سَرَاب [or mirage],) ran, and was in a state of commotion, upon the surface of the ground; (Ṣ, O, Ḳ;) as alsoانساع↓: (Ṣ:) or the latter, said of water, it ran upon the surface of the ground; as alsoتسيّع↓: andانساع↓, said of a thing in a congealed or solid state, signifies also it melted; became fluid, or liquid. (TA.)

Root: سيع - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

سَاعَتِ الإِبِلُ, (Sh, Ḳ,) aor. as above, inf. n. سَيْعٌ, (Sh,) The camels were left to themselves, without a pastor; (Sh, Ḳ;) as also ساعت having تَسُوعُ for its aor. and سَوْعٌ for its inf. n. (Sh, Ṣ * and Ḳ * in art. سوع.)

Root: سيع - Entry: 1. Signification: A3

And سَاعَ الشَّىْءَ, aor. as above, The thing became left, or neglected, or lost; or it perished. (TA.)


2. ⇒ سيّع

تَسْيِيعٌ The act of plastering with mud [or with سَيَاع]. (Ḳ.) You say, سَيَّعْتُ الحَائِطَ I plastered the wall with mud and chopped straw. (Ṣ.)

Root: سيع - Entry: 2. Signification: A2

And The act of anointing with fat and the like. (Ḳ.) You say, سَيَّعَتِ المَرْأَةُ مَزَادَتَهَا The woman anointed [with fat, or the like, her leathern water-bag]. (TA.)


4. ⇒ اسيعاساع

اساعهُ He left it, neglected it, lost it, or destroyed it. (TA.) [See also art. سوع.]


5. ⇒ تسيّع

Root: سيع - Entry: 5. Dissociation: B

تسيّع البَقْلُ The herbs, or leguminous plants, dried up; or became yellow. (TA.)


7. ⇒ انسيعانساع

see 1, in two places.


سَيْعٌ

سَيْعٌ Water running upon the surface of the ground. (Lth, Ḳ.)


سَيَاعٌ

سَيَاعٌ, (Ḳ,) or سِيَاعٌ, (Ṣ,) or both, (MF, TA,) Mud: (TA:) or mud [mixed] with chopped straw, with which one plasters. (Kr, Ṣ, Ḳ.) The saying of the poet, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) namely El-Kutámee, (Ḳ,) describing his she-camel, (TA,)

* فَلَمَّا أَنْ جَرَى سِمَنٌ عَلَيْهَا *
* كَمَا طَيَّنْتَ بِالفَدَنِ السَّيَاعَا *

presents an inversion, the meaning being كما طيّنت بِالسِيَّاعِ الفَدَنِ [i. e. And when fatness extended upon her, as when thou plasterest with mud and chopped straw the pavilion]; الفَدَن signifying القَصْر. (Ṣ, Ḳ: [but in the former, only the latter hemistich is cited; and in some copies of the former, and in the O, we find بَطَّنْتَ in the place of طَيَّنْتَ.])

Root: سيع - Entry: سَيَاعٌ Signification: A2

Also Fat with which a مَزَادَة [or leathern water-bag] is anointed. (Ḳ.)

Root: سيع - Entry: سَيَاعٌ Signification: A3

And ‡ Pitch, or tar; syn. زِفْتٌ; as being likened to mud, because of its blackness. (TA.)


سَائِعٌ

ضَائِعٌ سَائِعٌ, mentioned in this art. in the TA: see art. سوع.


أَسْيَعُ

سَرَابٌ أَسْيَعُ A mirage [running upon the surface of the ground, (see 1,) and] in a state of commotion: (Ṣ,* TA:) or, as some say, [in a state of exceeding commotion; for] the form of the epithet in this case denotes مُفَاضَلَة. (TA.)


مِسْيَعَةٌ

مِسْيَعَةٌ A plasterer's trowel; syn. مَالَجَةٌ: (Ṣ:) a piece of wood made smooth, used by skilful plasterers with mud. (Lth, Ḳ.)


مِسْيَاعٌ

مِسْيَاعٌ A she-camel that goes away in the place of pasturing: (Ḳ:) mentioned by J in art. سوع, q. v.: (TA:) or that bears, or suffers, neglect, or being left alone, (اَلَّتِى تَحْمِلُ الضَّيْعَةَ, [for the last of which words we find in some copies of the Ḳ الضَّيْعَةَ, but it is said in the TA that the former is the right reading, as is shown by its being added,]) and bad superintendence or management; (Ḳ, TA;) thus expl. by Aṣ: (TA:) or upon which one journeys and returns; (Ḳ;) thus expl. by Ṣgh, but this is the explanation of مِرْبَاعٌ, with which it is coupled. (TA.)


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