سَمْحٌ

(T, S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ سَمِحٌ, of which the former is a contraction, (Msb,) [but which is seldom used,] as also ↓ سَمِيحٌ and [in an intensive sense] ↓ مِسْمَحٌ (T, M, TA) and ↓ مِسْمَاحٌ (T, S, * M, A, * K, * TA) [and ↓ سَمُوحٌ, occurring in the K voce نَعُوسٌ, the last three feminine as well as masculine], Liberal, bountiful, munificent, or generous: (T, S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K, TA:) feminine سَمْحَةٌ: (T, S, M, A, K:) plural سِمَاحٌ, (Th, T, S, M, A, Msb, K,) applied to women (Th, S, Msb, K) only, (Th, S, K,) or to men and to women, (T, M, TA,) and سُمَحَاءُ, (T, S, M, A, Msb, K,) applied to a party of people, (S, A,) [i. e.] to men and to women, (T, M, TA,) as though plural of سَمِيحٌ, (S, K,) and مَسَامِيحُ, (T, S, M, A, K,) applied to men and to women, (T, M, A, *) plural of مِسْمَاحٌ, (A,) or as though plural of مِسْمَاحٌ. (S, K.) The diminutive of سَمْحٌ is ↓ سُمَيْحٌ and ↓ سُمَيِّحٌ; (K;) but the latter is by some disallowed. (TA.) You say also, فُلَانٌ سَمْحٌ لَمْحٌ and لَمِيحٌ ↓ سَمِيحٌ [apparently meaning Such a one is very liberal, &c.; for in each case the latter epithet is probably an imitative sequent, and therefore a corroborative]. (L.)

دَابَّةٌ سَمْحَةٌ [A beast that is submissive, or easy, or gentle: and probably also quick: see 1]. (A, voce جَمْحَةٌ, q. v.)

[Hence, apparently,] سَمْحَةُ is the name of A mare of Jaafar the son of Aboo-Tálib. (K. [See also سَبْحَة.])

And أُمُّ سَمْحَةَ The she-goat. (T in article ام.)

And قَوْسٌ سَمْحَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A pliant bow. (K, * TA.)

And عُودٌ سَمْحٌ (tropical:) A branch, or rod, that is even and smooth, (A, * Msb, * TA,) without any knot: (A, K, TA:) or of even growth, so that what is between its two extremities is not more slender than its two extremities or than one of them. (AHn, TA.) One says also سَاجَةٌ سَمْحَةٌ (tropical:) [An oblong squared piece, or a board or tablet, of the wood of the ساج (q. v.), that is even and smooth]. (TA.)

And مِلَّةٌ سَمْحَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A religion in which is no straitness (K, TA) nor difficulty. (TA.)

The saying of 'Omar Ibn-'AbdEl-'Azeez أَذِّنْ أَذَانًا سَمْحًا means (assumed tropical:) [Recite thou a call to prayer] without a prolonging of the voice, and trilling, and without modulation. (Mgh.)