سَحَاةٌ

The قِشْر [or covering, integument, peel, or the like,] of anything: plural [or rather coll. gen. n.] سَحًا. (S.) See also سِحَاءَةٌ.

A certain thorny tree; (K, TA;) the fruit thereof is white: it is a herb in the spring-season, as long as it remains green: when it dries up in the hot season, it is a tree. (TA.)

A bat: (ISh, S, K:) plural سَحًا; (K;) or [rather] it is the n. un. of سَحًا, which is synonym with خُفَّاشٌ [used as a gen. n.]: (ISh, S:) and سِحَاءٌ is a dialect var. of سَحًا used in this sense, according to Az. (TA.)

I. q. سَاحَةٌ [i. e. The court, or open area, of a house]: (S, K:) formed from the latter word by transposition: (TA:) one says, لَا أَرَيَنَّكَ بِسَحْسَحِى وَسَحَاتِى [I will assuredly not see thee in my quarter, or tract, and my court]. (S.) And I. q. نَاحِيَةٌ [A side, region, quarter, or tract, &c.]. (K.)