صيح

صَاحَ

To raise one's voice, cry aloud, shout, exclaim, or vociferate.

It may be done vehemently or with utmost force. The expression is used of a person and also, more broadly, of other things; it is especially associated with animals and often crow-like birds, and occasionally with a spear by comparison.

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صَاحَ

To call out to, hail, or summon someone or something.

Common constructions include صَاحَ بِهِ and صَاحَ لِفُلَانٍ, as well as the imperative صِحْ لِي بِفُلَانٍ.

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صِيحَ بِهِمْ

To be frightened or terrified.

This is the passive construction صِيحَ بِهِمْ.

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صِيحَ فِيهِمْ

To perish.

This meaning is associated with the passive construction صِيحَ فِيهِمْ.

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صَيْحٍ وَنَفْرٍ

Before daybreak, or before everything else.

An idiomatic expression used with meeting or coming before the time of general activity.

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مِنْ غَيْرِ صَيْحٍ وَلَا نَفْرٍ

For neither little nor much; for nothing.

An idiomatic expression describing anger or another reaction without any appreciable cause.

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صَاحَتِ الشَّجَرَةُ

To become tall or extend upward; of a tree or palm, to grow tall, and of a raceme, to emerge fully and lengthen.

The expression is also used of a palm spathe putting forth its spadix or raceme to its full length.

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صَيَّحَ

To break, split, cleave, or slit a thing extensively.

This is a causative Form II use applied to an object that is broken or divided much.

• Lane · entry 26981

تَصَيَّحَ

To become much broken, cloven, split, or slit.

The use is intransitive and describes the resulting condition of a thing.

• Lane · entry 26983

تَصَايَحَ

Of a sword scabbard or sheath, to become much split or slit.

A figurative extension describing extensive splitting, compared with a structure coming apart.

• Lane · entry 26984

انْصَاحَ

Of a garment or piece of cloth, to become slit or rent; of a staff, to become cracked or split.

This is a Form VII intransitive use describing an object becoming cleft or damaged.

• Lane · entry 26985

انْصَاحَ

Of dawn or lightning, to show its light or break forth.

This is a figurative extension associated with cleaving or opening apart.

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صَيْحَةُ الْحُبْلَى

Sudden evil or mischief arriving unexpectedly.

In the expression صَيْحَةُ الْحُبْلَى, the pregnant woman's cry is used figuratively for trouble that comes suddenly.

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صَيْحَة

Punishment, chastisement, or castigation.

This is a conventional extended meaning of the noun rather than its basic sense of a loud cry.

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صَيْحَة

A hostile or predatory incursion that surprises a tribe.

The meaning describes a sudden raid or attack.

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مُصَايَحَة

The calling, crying, or calling out of people to one another.

The corresponding Form III usage describes reciprocal vocal calling among people or a group.

• Lane · entry 26982

صَيْحَانِيّ

A kind of date from Medina, described as black and hard to chew.

The name is explained as a relational form associated with a ram called صَيْحَان or الصَّيَّاح.

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صَيَّاح

A clamorous person; anything noisy or making much sound.

The form may describe either a person characterized by clamour or a noisy thing.

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الصَّيَّاح

A name for the constellation Bootes.

This is a conventional astronomical name.

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صَيَّاح

A perfume or fragrant substance; also a wash for the head.

The preparation may consist of خَلُوق and similar materials.

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صَائِحَة

The crying or clamour at a place where women are wailing.

The noun denotes the sound or commotion associated with such a place of mourning.

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