ســهل
1 سَـ
ـهُلَ, said of a place, (
S,) or of a thing, and,
accord. to
IKtt, they said also سَـ
ـهَلَ and سَـ
ـهِلَ, (
Msb,) and سَـ
ـهُلَــتْ, said of land, (أَرْضٌ,)
aor. ـُ (
K,)
inf. n. سُهُولَةٌ, (
S,
Msb,
K,
KL,) It was, or became, smooth or soft, plain or level, or smooth and soft; (
S,
Msb,
K,
KL,
TA;) i. e.
contr. of حَزُنَ and حَزُنَتْ, (
S, *
K, *
TA,)
inf. n. حُزُونَةٌ. (
TA.)
b2: And سَـ
ـهُلَ, (
MA,
Msb,
K,)
inf. n. سُهُولَةٌ, (
MA,
KL,) or سَهَالَةٌ, (
K,) [but the former is the more common,] It (a thing,
Msb) was, or became, easy. (
MA,
Msb, *
K, *
KL.)
b3: One says كَلَامٌ فِيهِ سُهُولَةٌ (
tropical:) [Language, or speech, in which is smoothness, or easiness]. (
TA.) 2 سِـ
ـهّلــهُ, (
Msb,
K,)
inf. n. تَسْهِيلٌ, (
S,
K,)
i. q. صَيَّرَهُ سَـ
ـهْلًــا [which may mean He rendered it smooth or soft, plain or level, or smooth and soft; namely, a place &c.: or what next follows]. (
TA.)
b2: He made it easy; he facilitated it; (
S,
K;) namely, a thing; said of God (
Msb) [and of a man].
b3: One says, سَـ
ـهَّلَ سَبِيلَ المَآءِ [He smoothed, made easy, or prepared, the way, course, passage, or channel, of the water], (
S and
K in art. اتى,) in order that it might pass forth to a place. (
S in that art.) And سـ
ـهّل مَسِيلًا لِمَآءٍ [He smoothed, made easy, or prepared, a channel for water]. (
M in that art.)
b4: And سـ
ـهّل اللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ الأَمْرَ, and لَكَ, a form of prayer, meaning May God [make easy, or facilitate, to thee the affair; or] take upon Himself, for thee, the burden of the affair; and lighten [it] to thee. (
TA.) [And in like manner سـ
ـهّل اللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ is often said with الأَمْرَ or أَمْرَكَ understood.]
b5: [And أَـ
ـهَّلَ بِهِ وَسَـ
ـهَّلَ, or أَـ
ـهَّلَــهُ وَسَـ
ـهَّلَــهُ,
inf. ns. تَأْهِيلٌ and تَسْهِيلٌ, He said to him ↓ أَـ
ـهْلًــا وَسَـ
ـهْلًــا, meaning (as
expl. in the
Msb in art. ا
هل) أَتَيْتَ قَوْمًا أَـ
ـهْلًــا وَمَوْضِعًا سَـ
ـهْلًــا, i. e. Thou hast come to a people who are like kinsfolk, and to a place that is smooth, plain, or not rugged: see أَـ
ـهَّلَ and أَـ
ـهْلٌ: and see also
Ham p. 184.]
3 سا
هلــهُ, (
MA,
K,)
inf. n. مُسَا
هَلَــةٌ, (
TA,) He was easy, or facile, with him; (
MA,
K *) or gentle with him;
syn. يَاسَرَهُ: (
K:) and ↓ تسا
هل عَلَيْهِ [has a similar meaning, i. e. he acted, or affected to act, in an easy, or a facile, manner towards him; or gently]. (
S and
K in art. غمض: see 4 in that art.) [See also the paragraph here following.]
4 اسـ
ـهلــوا They descended to the سَـ
ـهْل [i. e. smooth or soft, or plain or level, or smooth and soft, tract]: (
JK,
Msb:) or they betook themselves to the سَـ
ـهْل: (
S:) or they became in the سَـ
ـهْل: (
K:) and they alighted and abode in the سَـ
ـهْل, after they had been alighting and abiding in the حَزْن [i. e. rugged, or rugged and hard, or rugged and high, ground]. (
TA.) Hence, in a
trad. respecting the throwing of the pebbles [at Minè], يُسْـ
ـهِلُ occurs as meaning He betakes himself to the interior of the valley. (
TA.)
b2: Also They used smoothness, or easiness, (سُهُولَة,) with men: opposed to أَحْزَنُوا. (
TA.) [See also 3.]
A2: اسـ
ـهل is also
trans., signifying He found [a thing, a place, &c.,] to be smooth or soft, plain or level, or smooth and soft. (
Ham p. 675.)
b2: اسـ
ـهل الطَّبِيعَةَ (
S) or البَطْنَ, (
Msb,
K,) said of medicine, (
S,
Msb,
K,) It relaxed, or loosened, the bowels;
syn. أَلَانَ, (
K,) or أَطْلَقَ. (
Msb.) And أُسْـ
ـهِلَ الرَّجُلُ [The man was relaxed in his bowels]: and أُسْـ
ـهِلَ بَطْنُهُ [His bowels were relaxed]. (
K.) [Hence the
inf. n. إِسْهَالٌ signifies A diarrhœa. And اسـ
ـهل, likewise said of medicine, signifies also It attenuated a humour of the body.]
b3: اسـ
ـهلــت بِهِ She brought it forth (i. e. her fœtus, or offspring,) prematurely;
i. q. أَمْلَصَتْ بِهِ [
q. v.]
&c. (Abu-l-'Abbás [i. e.
Th],
TA in art. ملص.) 5 تسـ
ـهّل [It was, or became, rendered easy, or facilitated;] quasi-
pass. of 2: (
Msb:) or [like سَـ
ـهُلَ] it was, or became, easy. (
KL.) You say, تسـ
ـهّل لَهُ الأَمْرُ [The affair was, or became, rendered easy to him]. (
Msb in art. اتى.) and تسـ
ـهّلــت طَرِيقُ الأَمْرِ [The way of accomplishing the affair was, or became, rendered easy]. (
TA in that art.)
b2: And تسـ
ـهّل فِى أُمُورِهِ, said of a man, (
K in art سنى,) He found, or experienced, ease, or facility, in his affairs. (
TK in that art.) 6 تَسَا
هُلٌ is
syn. with تَسَامُحٌ. (
S,
K.) Yousay تسا
هلــوا meaning They acted in an easy, or a facile, manner, one with another; (
MA,
TA in art. يسر;) or gently;
syn. تَيَاسَرُوا. (
TA in that art.)
b2: See also 3.
b3: [In the present day it is used as meaning The being negligent, or careless, فِى أَمْرٍ in an affair.]
b4: [
As a conventional term in lexicology, or in relation to language, it means A careless mode of expression occasioning] a deficiency in the language of a [writer or] speaker without reliance upon the understanding of [the reader or] the person addressed: (
KT: [in one of my copies of that work, this explanation is omitted in the text, but written in the margin; and it is there added that it is what commonly obtains:]) or it means [sometimes such a mode of expression] that a phrase is not correct if held to be used according to the proper meaning, but is correct if held to be used according to a
tropical meaning: or the mention of the whole when meaning a part. (Marginal notes in the copy of the
KT above mentioned.) [See also تَسَامُحٌ, for which it is often used.]
8 استـ
ـهل, of the measure اِفْتَعَلَ from السَّـ
ـهْلُ, occurs in a
trad., where it is said, مَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَىَّ فَقَدِ اسْتَـ
ـهَلَ مَكَانَهُ فِى جَهَنَّمَ, meaning [He who lies against me] takes for himself easily his place of abode in Hell. (
TA.) 10 استسـ
ـهلــهُ He reckoned it سَـ
ـهْل, (
S,
K,) i. e. easy, or facile. (
TK.) [See an
ex. in a verse cited
voce أَوْ, p. 123.]
سَـ
ـهْلٌ Smooth or soft, plain or level, or smooth and soft: (
Msb:) or anything inclining to smoothness or softness, plainness or levelness, or smoothness and softness; (
JK,
M,
K;) inclining to have little roughness, or ruggedness and hardness; (
JK,
M,
TA;) and ↓ سَـ
ـهِلٌ signifies the same. (
K.) You say أَرْضٌ سَـ
ـهْلَــةٌ, [meaning the same as سَـ
ـهْلٌ used as a
subst.,
expl. in what follows,] (
S,
Msb,)
contr. of حَزْنَةٌ. (
TA.) See also 2, last sentence.
b2: Also Easy, or facile; (
MA,
Mgh,
KL;)
contr. of صَعْبٌ. (
Mgh.) You say رَجُلٌ سَـ
ـهْلُ الخُلُقِ [A man easy of disposition]: (
S,
Msb, *
TA:) [and] سَـ
ـهْلُ المَقَادَةِ [easy to be led]. (
TA.) and كَلَامٌ سَـ
ـهْلُ المَأْخَذِ (
tropical:) [Language easy in respect of the source of derivation]. (
TA.) رَجُلٌ سَـ
ـهْلُ الوَجْهِ, (
K,
TA,) a phrase mentioned, but not explained, by
Lh, (
TA,) means A man having little flesh in the face, (
K,
TA,) in the opinion of
ISd: and [it is said that] سَـ
ـهْلُ الخَدَّيْنِ, in a description of the approved characteristics of the Prophet, means having expanded cheeks, not elevated in the balls thereof. (
TA.)
A2: [
As a
subst.,] A smooth or soft, plain or level, or smooth and soft, tract of land; [generally meaning a soft tract, or a plain;] (
IF,
S,
MA,
Mgh,
Msb,
K,
TA;) i. e.
contr. of جَبَلٌ, (
S,
Msb,) or of حَزْنٌ: (
IF,
Mgh,
Msb,
K,
TA:) it is one of the nouns that are used as adv. ns. [of place]: (
TA:) [for
ex. you say, نَزَلُوا سَـ
ـهْلًــا, (a phrase occurring in the
TA,) meaning They alighted and abode in a سـ
ـهل:]
pl. سُهُولٌ (
MA,
Msb,
K) and سُهُولَةٌ [of which latter an
ex. occurs in a verse cited
voce رَأْسٌ.] (
MA.)
A3: Also The crow; i. e. raven, carrion-crow, rook, &c.;
syn. غُرَابٌ. (
K.) سَـ
ـهِلٌ: see سَـ
ـهْلٌ, first sentence.
b2: نَهْرٌ سَـ
ـهِلٌ, (
S,
K,) and أَرْضٌ سَـ
ـهِلَــةٌ, (
K,) [A river, and a land,] having, (
S,) or abounding with, (
K,) what is termed سِـ
ـهْلَــةٌ [
q. v.]. (
S,
K.) سِـ
ـهْلَــةٌ Sea-sand: (
IAar,
TA:) or sand such as is not fine: (
S:) or coarse sand, such as is not fine and soft: (
IAth,
TA:) or a sort of earth like sand, (
JK,
K,) brought by water: (
K:) or sand of a conduit in which water runs: (
S in art. رض:) سِـ
ـهْلَــةُ الزُّجَاجِ is sea-sand that is made an ingredient in the substance of glass: (
Mgh:)
Az says that he had not heard the word سِـ
ـهْلَــة except on the authority of
Lth. (
TA.) [And Coarse sand that comes forth from the bladder; (Golius on the authority of
Meyd;) what we commonly term gravel.]
سُـ
ـهْلِــىٌّ, with damm, [Of, or relating to, and growing in, and pasturing in, the kind of tract termed سَـ
ـهْل;] a rel.
n. from سَـ
ـهْلٌ, (
S,
Msb,
K,) or from أَرْضٌ سَـ
ـهْلَــةٌ, (Aboo-'Amr Ibn-El-'Alà,
TA,) irregularly formed. (
S,
Msb.) You say نَبْتٌ سُـ
ـهْلِــىٌّ [A plant growing in the سَـ
ـهْل]. (The Lexicons passim.) And بَعِيرٌ سُـ
ـهِلــىٌّ A camel that pastures in the سَـ
ـهْل. (
K.) سَهُولٌ Laxative to the bowels;
syn. مَشُوٌّ; (
O,
K; in the
CK [erroneously] مُشُوّ;) as also ↓ مُسْـ
ـهِلٌ; applied to a medicine. (
Msb,
TA.) سُهَيْلٌ A certain star [well known; namely, Canopus]; (
T,
S,
K;) not seen in Khurásán, but seen in El-'Irák; (
T,
TA;) as Ibn-Kunáseh says, seen in El-Hijáz and in all the land of the Arabs, but not seen in the land of Armenia; and between the sight thereof by the people of ElHijáz and the sight thereof by the people of El-'Irák are twenty days: (
TA:) it is said that سهيل was a tyrannical collector of the tithes on the road to El-Yemen, and God transformed him into a star: (
Lth,
TA:) [it rose aurorally, in Central Arabia, about the commencement of the ear of the Flight, on the 4th of August, O.
S.: the place where it rises, in that latitude, is
S. 29 degrees E.; and the place where it sets, in the same latitude,
S. 29 degrees
W.: (see 10 in art. حب: and see جَنُوبٌ:)] at the time of its [auroral] rising, the fruits ripen, and the قَيْظ [
q. v., here meaning the greatest heat,] ends. (
K.) [بَالَ سُهَيْلٌ, which is a
prov., and the saying of a poet, بَالَ سُهَيْلٌ فِى الفَضِيخِ فَفَسَدْ have been
expl. in art. بول.] 'Omar Ibn-'AbdAllah Ibn-Abee-Rabeea says respecting Suheyl Ibn-'Abd-Er-Rahmán Ibn-'Owf, and his taking in marriage Eth-Thureiyà El-'Ableeyeh of the Benoo-Umeiyeh, deeming their coming together to be a strange thing by likening them to the stars named Eth-Thureiyà and Suheyl, أَيُّهَا المُنْكِحُ الثُّرَيَّا سُهَيْلًا عَمْرَكَ اللّٰهَ كَيْفَ يَلْتَقِيَانِ
هِىَ شَامِيَّةٌ إِذَا مَا اسْتَقَلَّتْ وَسُهَيْلٌ إِذَا اسْتَقَلَّ يَمَانِى
[O thou marrier of Eth-Thureiyà to Suheyl, by thine acknowledgment of the everlasting existence of God, (or, as it sometimes means, I ask God to prolong thy life,) tell me, how can they meet together? She is of the northern region when she rises, and Suheyl, when he rises, is of the southern region]. (
Har p. 276. [But I have substituted اللّٰهَ for اللّٰهُ, and يَمَانِى for يَمَانٍ. See also the notice of the poet above named in the work of Ibn-Khillikán: (I have the express authority of the
TA for thus writing this name:) and De Sacy's Anthol. Gramm. Arabe, p. 139.]) [Freytag states that قَدَمَا سُهَيْلٍ is the name of Two stars which are behind Canopus; on the authority of
Meyd: and also mentions the name of سهيل الشام, and سهيل الفرد, as given to Certain stars in the constellation Anguis; adding that Canopus is distinguished from سهيل الشام by the name of سهيل اليمن.] The name of أُخْتَاسُهَيْلٍ
[The two sisters of Canopus] is applied to الشِّعْرَى
العَبُورُ [or Sirius] and الشِّعْرَى الغُمَيْصَآءُ [or Procyon], together. (
S and
K in art. شعر.) [See also حَضَارِ and الوَزْنُ.]
أَكْذَبُ مِنْ سُهَيْلَةَ is a
prov., (
O,
K,) said to mean [More lying than] the wind: (
O:) or سهيلة was a certain liar. (
K.) مُسْـ
ـهَلٌ Relaxed, or loosened, by medicine; applied to the belly: no credit is to be given to people's saying مَسْهُولٌ, unless an express authority be found for it. (
Msb.) مُسْـ
ـهِلٌ: see سَهُولٌ. [Also an attenuant medicine.]
