سح

See also: سچ and سَجْ

Arabic

Noun

سَحّ • (saḥḥ) m

  1. rain pouring abundantly and extensively
Declension
Alternative forms
  • سَحْسَاح (saḥsāḥ), سَحُوح (saḥūḥ)

Verb

سَحَّ • (saḥḥa) I, non-past يَسُحُّ‎ (yasuḥḥu)

  1. to pour abundantly or flow forth vehemently and in consecutive quantities (upon)
  2. to flog, to inflict whips on
Conjugation

Verb

سَحَّ • (saḥḥa) I, non-past يَسِحُّ‎ (yasiḥḥu)

  1. to be fat to the utmost degree (said of bovids)
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps borrowed from Iranian. Compare Old Armenian ազոխ (azox, “unripe grapes”), Persian ازخ (azox, “rotten and empty nut”).

Noun

سُحّ • (suḥḥ) m

  1. (Oman, United Arab Emirates, Yemen) dates or in particular dates that are dry in such a manner that they dissolve well in the mouth
    • 2013 November 21, “جراب السح" خزانة التمر”, in Al-Ḵalīj‎:
Declension

Verb

سِحْ • (siḥ) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of سَاحَ (sāḥa)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سح”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 288b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سح”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1057a
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1313
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1895) “Über einen arabischen Dialect”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎ (in German), volume 9, page 21
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