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هٰذَا سَوْغُ هٰذَا ذ and سَيْغُهُ (S, K) and ↓ سَوْغَتُهُ (K) mean (tropical:) This is he who was born next after this, (S, K, TA,) or, as in the “ Mufradát, ” immediately after this; (TA;) and the like is also said of the female: (K:) one says, هِىَ أُخْتُهُ سَوْغُهُ and ↓ سَوْغَتُهُ [She is his sister that was born &c.], (S, TA,) as well as هُوَ أَخُوهُ سَوْغُهُ and ↓ سَوْغَتُهُ [He is his brother that was born &c.]: or سَوْغُ الرَّجُلِ means he who was born after the man, or near after him, though not his brother: and Fr heard a man of Benoo-Temeem say سَوْغُهُ, and another of the same tribe say ↓ سَوْغَتُهُ , meaning he who followed him: (TA:) [the pl. of سَوْغٌ is أَسْوَاغٌ; and it is said that] أَسْوَاغُ الرَّجُلِ means those who were born with the man in one case of childbirth, after him, no other childbirth having occurred between him and them: (TA:) or those born next after him: (JK:) and أَصْوَاغ is a dial. var. thereof: but IF says that هٰذَا سَوْغُ هٰذَا means This is of the cast, mould, form, or fashion, of this; and that the س may be a substitute for ص; as though the one were cast, moulded, formed, or fashioned, like the other: (TA:) and [in like manner] one says, هٰذَا سَيْغُ هٰذَا this is proportionate to this, or of the proportion of this. (TA in art. سيغ.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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