سَانِيَةٌ

[a subst. from سَانٍ, made so by the affix ة,] A she-camel, (S, * M, K,) or a camel, (Mgh, Msb,) a he-camel as well as a she-camel, (TA,) upon which water is drawn (S, * M, Mgh, Msb, K, TA) from a [deep] well (Mgh, Msb) [by a man riding or leading it away from the well, it having the two extremities of a long rope tied to the saddle, and the upper end of the wellrope being tied to the middle of the former rope, as explained voce ثِنَايَةٌ]; i. q. نَاضِحَةٌ: (S, TA:) [it seems also to signify, sometimes, a camel that carries water for irrigating seed-produce; a meaning likewise assigned to نَاضِحَةٌ and نَاضِحٌ:] and a beast (دابّة) that turns round about a well [raising water from it by means of the machine called دُولَاب]: (R, TA:) plural سَوَانٍ. (S, Mgh, TA.) Hence the prov.,

سَيْرُ السَّوَانِى سَفَرٌ لَا يَنْقَطِعْ

[The course of the beasts that draw water in either of the ways described above is a journey that does not end]. (S, Mgh, TA.)

Also the غَرْب [or large bucket with which water is drawn] together with its gear, or apparatus. (M, Mgh, K.)

And (assumed tropical:) A cloud watering the earth. (Msb.)