صَارِخٌ

Calling or calling out, or crying or crying out, or doing so vehemently; [or screaming;] as also ↓ صَرِيخٌ. (A, Msb.) And Calling, or crying, for aid, or succour; (S, Msb, K;) and so ↓ صَرِيخٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ مُسْتَصْرِخٌ. (S.)

Also, and ↓ صَرِيخٌ, (AHeyth, S, A, K,) or the latter [only] of these, (T, Msb,) and ↓ مُصْرِخٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) and ↓ صَارِخَةٌ, (Lth, TA,) Aiding, or succouring; or an aider, or a succourer: (Lth, T, S, A, Msb, K:) Az says that he had not heard صَارِخٌ in this sense on the authority of any except As; but that all men agree that it has the second of the senses given above, and that ↓ مُصْرِخٌ has the last of those senses. (TA.) أَمَةٌ ↓ عَبْدٌ صَرِيخُهُ, meaning [A male slave] whose aider [is a female slave], is a prov. applied in the case of a mean man who is aided by one meaner than he. (Meyd.) And it is said in the Qur'an, 14:27, ↓ مَا أَنَا بِمُصْرِخِكُمْ وَمَا أَنْتُمْ بِمُصْرِخِىَّ I am not your aiders, nor are ye my aiders. (TA.)

الصَّارِخُ is an appellation of The cock; (K, TA;) because he cries much in the night: and it is said by some to be tropical. (TA.)

And صَارِخٌ signifies also A voice, or cry, informing a man of an event on account of which his aid is invoked, or announcing to him a death. (IAth, TA.)