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سَيْحٌ ذ Running water; (S, Msb;) an inf. n. used as a subst.: (Msb:) or running external water: (K:) or external water running upon the surface of the earth: (T, TA:) the water of rivers and valleys: (Mgh:) pl. سُيُوحٌ. (T, TA.) [And it is used as an epithet:] you say also (TA) مَآءٌ سَيْحٌ (A, TA) and ↓ سَائِحٌ (A) Water running upon the surface of the earth: (A, TA:) pl. of the former أَسْيَاحٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) A striped [garment of the kind called] كِسَآء, (K, TA,) with which one covers himself, and which one spreads: (TA:) or a striped [garment such as is called] عَبَآءَة: and a sort of [the garments called] بُرُود: (S:) pl. سُيُوحٌ. (TA.) See also مُسَيَّحٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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