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سجو

1 سَجَا ذ , (S, Msb, K, &c.,) aor. يَسْجُو, (S, Msb,) inf. n. سُجُوٌّ (S, K, TA) and سَجْوٌ, (TA,) said of the night, (Fr, IAar, Msb, TA,) &c., (TA,) It was, or became, silent, quiet, or still: (Fr, IAar, S, K, TA:) and dark: (Fr, TA:) or its darkness became extended: (IAar, TA:) or it covered, or concealed, by its darkness. (Msb, TA.) وَ ا@للَّيْلِ إِِذَا سَجَا, in the Kur [xciii. 2], means And the night when it becomes still, silent, or quiet: (IAar, Zj, S, Jel:) or when it covers with its darkness: (Jel:) or when its people become silent: or when its darkness becomes still: from سَجَا البَحْرُ, inf. n. سُجُوٌّ, The sea became calm. (Bd.) And one says, سَجَتِ الرِّيحُ The wind became still. (TA.) ― -b2- سَجَتِ النَّاقَةُ The she-camel prolonged her حَنِين [or cry of yearning towards her young one]. (K.) ― -b3- See also 2. 2 سجّى ذ He covered anything; as also ↓ اسجى , and ↓ سَجَا . (IAar, TA.) You say, سجّى المَيِّتَ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. تَسْجَيةٌ, (S, Mgh, K,) He covered the dead person (Mgh, Msb, K) with a garment, or piece of cloth, (Mgh, Msb,) and the like. (Msb.) 3 ساجاهُ ذ , (K,) inf. n. مُسَاجَاةٌ, (TA,) He touched it. (K.) One says, أَتَانَا بِطَعَامٍ فَمَا سَاجَيْنَاهُ i. e. [He brought us food, and] we did not touch it. (AZ, TA.) ― -b2- And i. q. عَالَجَهُ [meaning He worked, or laboured, upon it, or at it; &c.]. (K.) One says, هَلْ تُسَاجِى ضَيْعَةً i. e. تُعَالِجُهَا [meaning Dost thou work, or labour, upon a landed estate? or, probably, dost thou cultivate a landed estate by the work, or labour, of others?]. (Aboo-Málik, TA.) 4 أَسْجَوَ see 2. -A2- اسجت النَّاقَةُ The she-camel had much milk. (Sgh, K.) [ سَجِىٌّ ذ A sincere companion and friend. (Golius, from Meyd.)] سَجِيَّةٌ ذ A nature; or a natural, a native, or an innate, disposition or temper or the like; syn. خُلُقٌ, and طَبِيعَةٌ, (S,) or غَرِيزَةٌ: (Msb:) or a faculty, or quality, firmly rooted in the mind, not easy of removal: (MF:) pl. سَجَايَا. (Msb.) نَاقَةٌ سَجْوَآءُ ذ A she-camel still, or quiet, when being milked. (M, K.) ― -b2- And A she-camel whose fur is unruffled: and شَاةٌ سَجْوَآءُ a sheep whose wool is unruffled. (TA.) ― -b3- And رِيحٌ سَجْوَآءُ A gentle wind. (TA.) ― -b4- And اِمْرَأَةٌ سَجْوَآءُ الطَّرْفِ i. e. ↓ سَاجِيَتُهُ , (K,) meaning A woman languid, or languishing, in the eye. (TA.) سَاجٍ ذ Still, silent, or quiet: thus applied to the sea [as meaning calm, or unruffled]. (S, K.) And لَيْلَةٌ سَاجِيَةٌ A calm night, in which the wind is still, and such as is not dark: (T, TA:) or a night in which the cold has become allayed, and in which the wind and the clouds have become still, and which is not dark. (M, TA.) And طَرْفٌ سَاجٍ A still, or motionless, eye: (S, K:) [or] عَيْنٌ سَاجِيَةٌ, accord. to IAar, means an eye that has a languid, or languishing, look; which is an accessory to beauty in women. (TA.) See also the next preceding paragraph.

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