عَشِىٌّ
1.
[The late part of the evening: or the evening: or the afternoon: i. e.] the last, or the latter, part of the day; (Mgh, Msb, K, TA;) as also
عَشِيَّةٌ: (K, TA:) this is the meaning commonly known: (Mgh:) or [the time] from the prayer of sunset to the
عَتَمَة [or darkness after nightfall]; (S, Msb, TA;) like عِشَاءٌ; (Msb;) and so
عَشِيَّةٌ: you say, أَتَيْتُهُ عَشِىَّ أَمْسِ and أَمْسِ
عَشِيَّةَ [I came to him late in the evening, or in the time between sunset and nightfall, &c., of yesterday]: (S, TA:) or عَشِىٌّ has the meaning explained in the K [and mentioned above]; but
عَشِيَّةٌ relates to one day: and one says, جِيءْتُهُ
عَشِيَّةً [I came to him late in an evening, &c.] and عَشِيَّةَ [late this evening, &c.], and أَتَيْتُهُ العَشِيَّةَ
I came to him in the
عشيّة [or late part of the evening, &c.,] of this day; and اتِيهِ عَشِىَّ غَدٍ [I will come to him in the late part of the evening, &c., of to-morrow (in my original اتيته, an obvious mistranscription,)] without ة when relating to the future; and أَتَيْتُكَ عَشِيًّا [I came to thee in the late part of an evening, &c.]; and أَتَيْتُهُ بِالغَدَاةِ
وَالعَشِىِّ i. e. [I came to him early in the morning and late in the evening, &c., meaning,] every
عَشِيَّة [or عَشِىّ] and
غَدَاة: (TA:) or, as some say,
عَشِيَّةٌ is a singular [or n. un.] and عَشِىٌّ is its plural [or a coll. gen. n.]: and, as IAmb says, sometimes the Arabs make
عَشِيَّةٌ masculine, as meaning عَشِىٌّ: (Msb:) or عَشِىٌّ signifies the time between the declining of the sun [from the meridian] and sunset: (Az, Mgh, Msb, TA:) or [the time] from the declining of the sun [from the meridian] to the
صَبَاح [apparently here, as generally, meaning morning]: (Er-Rághib, Msb, TA:) and sometimes it means the night: (TA:) the plural is عَشَايَا and عَشِيَّاتٌ, (K, TA,) the former of which [is plural of
عَشِيَّةٌ, like the latter, or perhaps of عَشِىٌّ also, and] is originally عَشَايِوُ, then عَشَايِىُ, then عَشَايءِىُ, then عَشَاءَى, and then عَشَايَا: (TA:) the dim, of عَشِىٌّ is
عُشَيَّانٌ, irreg., as though formed from عَشْيَانٌ, and its plural is عُشَيَّانَاتٌ; and another form of its diminutive is
عُشَيْشِيَانٌ, plural عُشَيْشِيَانَاتٌ: and the diminutive of
عَشِيَّةٌ is
عُشَيْشِيَةٌ, plural عُشَيْشِيَاتٌ: (S, TA:) one says,
لَقِيتُهُ عُشَيْشَةً [another form of diminutive, properly meaning I met him in a short period of a late part of an evening, &c.], and [in like manner]
عُشَيْشَانًا, and
عُشَيَّانًا [in some copies of the K عشّانا], and
عُشَيْشِيَةً [according to the Mgh meaning عِشَاءً], and عُشَيْشَاتٍ, and عُشَيْشِيَانَاتٍ. (K.) صَلَاتَا العَشِىِّ [The two prayers of the afternoon] means the two prayers of the
ظُهْر
and the
عَصْر; (Az, Mgh, Msb, K;) because they are in the latter part of the day (فِى اخِرِ النَّهَارِ), after the زَوَال [or declining of the sun from the meridian]. (TA.) In the phrase أَوْضُحَاهَا
عَشِيَّةً [i. e. A late part of an evening, &c., or its early portion of the forenoon, meaning or an early portion of the forenoon of the same civil day], in the Qur'an, 79, last verse, the ضحى is prefixed to [the pronoun referring to] the عشيّة because the ضحى and the عشيّة belong to the same [civil] day, [for this day is reckoned as the period from sunset to sunset,] (Ksh Bd, Jel, *) and also [by a kind of poetic license, for the sake of the rhyme, i. e.] because ضحاها occurs as a فَاصِلَة [q. v.]. (Jel.)
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3.
And the former, as an epithet applied to a camel, That continues long eating the
عَشَاء [i. e. evening-pasture, or evening-feed]: feminine with ة. (K. [See also عَشٍ.])