(assumed tropical:) A cough: (O, K:) or a sharp cough; as also ↓سَعِيرَةٌ. (IAar, TA.)
2.
And (assumed tropical:) The beginning of an affair or a case; and the newness thereof: (K, TA:) in some copies of the K, حِدَّتُهُ is erroneously put for جِدَّتُهُ. (TA.)