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2 سَيَّحَ [سيّح is said by Golius, as on the authority of the K, to signify He made water to flow: and this is probably its primary and proper signification, whence other meanings, which are tropical: but it is not in the K.] ― -b2- See 4. ― -b3- سيّح فُلَانٌ, [app. for سيّح كَلَامَهُ,] inf. n. تَسْيِيحٌ, (tropical:) Such a one talked much. (A, TA.) ― -b4- And سُيِّحَ, inf. n. as above, (assumed tropical:) It (a garment, or piece of cloth,) had in it [or was diversified with] various stripes. (L.) [And in like manner it is said of other things: see its part. n., مُسَيَّحٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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