[1]
سَهَا عَنْهُ , (S, Msb,) or
فِيهِ, (K,) aor.
يَسْهُو,
inf. n.
سَهْوٌ (S, Msb, K) and
سُهُوٌّ, (M, K,)
He
was, or
became, unmindful, forgetful, neglectful,
or
heedless, of it, or
inadvertent to it; (S, Msb;)
namely, a thing; syn.
غَفَلَ عَنْهُ: (S, * Msb:) or
he forgot it, or
neglected it, (
نَسِيَهُ,) and
was, or
became, unmindful, forgetful, &c.,
of it, or
inadvertent to it, (
غَفَلَ عَنْهُ,)
his mind adverting to
another thing or
affair or
case; (K, TA;) thus
expl. in the M and T; so that
السَّهْوُ and
الغَفْلَةُ
and
النِّسْيَانُ are made to be one [in signification];
(TA;) but accord. to Esh-Shiháb,
السَّهْوُ is
a
slight غَفْلَة [or
unmindfulness &c.]
of that which
is within the scope of the retentive faculty, such
as when one's attention is roused by the least
rousing thereof; whereas
النسيان denotes its
passing away from the memory entirely; though
all are used in one sense by a careless reliance
upon the understanding of the reader or hearer:
in the Msb it is said that a distinction is made
between
السَّاهِى and
النَّاسِى by the latter's being
applied to him who, when he is reminded, remembers, and the former's being applied to him
who is in the contrary case: accord. to IAth,
سَهَافِى الشَّىْءِ means
he neglected, or
omitted, the
thing unknowingly; and
سَهَا عَنْهُ,
he neglected, or
omitted, it knowingly: or, as some say,
السَّهْوُ is
the doing wrong from unmindfulness (
عَنْ غَفْلَة);
as when an insane person reviles another, which
is pardonable; and as when one drinks wine and
then some unpleasing action proceeds from him
unintentionally, which is punishable. (TA.) One
says,
سَهَافِى الصَّلَاةِ, and
عَنْهَا,
i. q. غَفَلَ [
He was,
or
became, unmindful in prayer, and
of it].
(TA.) ―
2-b2- [Hence, app., as implying an unexpected event,]
حَمَلَتْ سَهْوًا She (a woman, S)
conceived in menstruis. (Az, S, Z, K.) And
حَمَلَتْ
بِهِ أُمُّهُ سَهْوًا His mother conceived him in menstruis. (JK.) ―
2-b3-
السَّهْوُ also signifies
السُّكُونُ (JK,
S, K) and
اللِّينُ (JK, S,) [app. as an inf. n., i. e.
as meaning
The being still, or
quiet, and gentle;
though it is immediately added in the S that the
pl. is
سِهَآءٌ; for it seems that an early transcriber
of the S has omitted to insert after
اللَّينُ the
words
وَالسَّاكِنُ وَاللَّيِّنُ: see
سَهْوٌ below]. One
says,
فَعَلَهُ سَهْوًا رَهْوًا He did it voluntarily, without
its being asked, or
demanded; (K, TA;) and
without constraint: (TA:) or
quietly, or
calmly,
without being hard, or
difficult. (TA in art.
رهو.)
And
سَهَا إِلَيْهِ He looked at him, or
it, with
motionless eye. (Msb, TA.) And
العَيْنُ تَسْهُو فِيهِ
The eye expatiates in it; syn.
تَنْبَسِطُ. (JK.) ＝
1-A2-
سَهَاوَةٌ, as denoting a quality of a camel, The
being
easy to ride; (K;) an inf. n., of which the verb
is
سَهُوَ. (TA.) ＝
1-A3-
مَالٌ لَا يُسْهَى وَلَا يُنْهَى [
Cattle]
of which the end is not to be reached. (AA, JK,
S, K.) You say,
يَرَاحُ عَلَى بَنِى فُلَانٍ مِنَ المَالِ مَا
لَا يُسْهَىوَلَا يُنْهَى [
There returns from the place
of pasture in the evening, or
afternoon, to the
sons of such a one, of cattle,]
what is not to be
numbered for multitude: (T, TA:) or
what is
not to be computed, or
computed by conjecture.
(IAar, TA.) And
ذَهَبَتْ تَمِيمُ فَلَا تُسْهَى وَلَا تُنْهَى,
meaning
لَا تُذْكَرُ [i. e.
Temeem went away, and
will not be remembered, or
will not be mentioned]:
a saying of El-Ahmar. (TA.)