صحو

1 صَحَا, said of a day, [aor. ـْ inf. n. صَحْوٌ, It was, or became, cloudless: (TA:) and so ↓ أَصْحَى: (Msb, K, TA, but not in the CK:) [it is said that] صَحْوٌ signifies the departing of the clouds: (S, Mgh, K:) [but] Es-Sijistánee says that the vulgar think it to have this meaning, whereas it only means the dispersing of the clouds with the departing of the cold. (Msb, TA.) and السَّمَآءُ ↓ أَصْحَتِ The sky became cloudless. (Ks, S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA, but not in the CK.) b2: and صَحَا مِنْ سُكْرِهِ, (S, Msb,) aor. ـْ (Msb,) inf. n. صَحْوٌ (S, Msb, K) and صُحُوٌّ, (Msb,) [He recovered, or became free, from his intoxication; or] his intoxication ceased; as also ↓ اصحى: (Msb:) and صَحِىَ, (K, TA,) inf. n. صَحًا; (TA;) as also ↓ اصحى; (IKtt, K, TA;) is [likewise] said of one intoxicated; (K, TA;) both meaning he recovered from his state of insensibility; (TA;) and in like manner both are said of one affected with desire, or yearning or longing in the soul; (K, TA;) [and also of one sleeping, meaning he awoke: see an ex. of the former of these two verbs in this last sense in the latter part of the second paragraph of art. فرط.] b3: صَحْوٌ signifies also (tropical:) The relinquishing of youthful folly, and amorous dalliance, and of what is vain, or futile. (K, TA.) Hence the saying of a poet, صَحَا القَلْبُ عَنْ سَلْمَى وَأَقْصَرَ بَاطِلُهْ (tropical:) [The heart relinquished, or has relinquished, youthful folly and amorousness by becoming rid of Selmà, and its vain, or futile, occupation ceased, or has ceased]. (TA.) b4: And one says, صَحَتِ العَاذِلَةُ (assumed tropical:) The censuring female relinquished censuring. (TA.) 4 اصحى: see 1, in four places. b2: أَصْحَيْنَا We became in a case of cloudlessness [of the sky or day]; (Msb, TA;) the sky became cloudless to us. (S.) A2: أَصْحَيْتُهُ مِنْ سُكْرِهِ [I recovered him, or roused him, from his intoxication], and مِنْ نَوْمِهِ [from his sleep]. (TA.) b2: And sometimes إِصْحَآءٌ is used as meaning The act of rousing, and recalling to mindfulness, from a state of heedlessness, or inadvertence. (TA.) صَحْوٌ [an inf. n. used as an epithet, and therefore applicable to a fem. as well as a masc. noun, and to a dual and a pl. as well as a sing.], applied to a day, Cloudless; (K, TA;) as also ↓ صَاحٍ; (S, TA;) and ↓ مُصْحٍ: (Mgh, Msb:) and (K) in the same sense applied to a sky; (Ks, S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ مُصْحِيَةٌ, or, accord. to Ks, this is not allowable, but only صَحْوٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) though one says of the sky أَصْحَت. (Msb.) صَحْوَةٌ A state [of freedom from intoxication, or] of sensibility, or mental perception. (TA voce سَكْرَةٌ.) يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَأْخُذَهَا بَيْنَ الصَّحْوَةِ وَالسَّكْرَةِ [He desires to take it being in a state between that of sensibility and that of insensibility, or mental perception and inability thereof,] is a prov., applied to him who seeks a thing feigning ignorance while possessing knowledge. (TA.) [See also another ex. voce سَكْرَةٌ.]

صَاحٍ: see صَحْوٌ. b2: It is also said of one intoxicated [as meaning Recovering, or becoming free, from his intoxication; or ceasing to be intoxicated: see 1]. (S, TA.) مُصْحٍ; and its fem. مُصْحِيَةٌ: see صَحْوٌ.

مَصْحَاةٌ is like مَسْلَاةٌ in meaning as well as in measure, [signifying A cause of freedom,] except that the former is from the intoxication of grief and the latter is from distress of mind and anxiety. (TA.) مِصْحَاةٌ A sort of vessel, (S, K,) well known, (K,) used for drinking; (TA;) a طَاس [q. v.], or a جَام [q. v.]: (K:) As says, “I know not of what it is: ” (S, TA:) it is said to be of silver. (TA.) El-Aashà speaks of wine being poured into it. (S, TA.) And one says وَجْهٌ كَمِصْحَاةِ اللُّجَيْنِ [A face like the مصحاة of silver.] (TA.)