سَارِيَةٌ

A party, or company of men, journeying by night. (Er-Rághib, TA.)

And A cloud that comes by night: (S, Msb:) or clouds that travel by night: (K:) or a cloud that is between that which comes in the early morning and that which comes in the evening: [perhaps thus termed as having previously travelled in the night:] or, according to Lh, a rain that comes in the night: (M, TA:) plural سَوَارِى [apparently a mistranscription for سَوَارٍ, being indeterminate]. (K, TA.)

One says, جَاءَ صَبِيحَةَ سَارِيَةٍ He came in the morning of a night in which was rain. (TA.)

And the plural السَّارِيَاتُ signifies The asses: (M:) or the wild asses: (TA:) because they rest not by night: (M:) or because they pasture by night. (TA.)

-A2- Also A column, synonym أُسْطُوَانَةٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) of stone, or of baked bricks; so in the “ Bári': ” (TA:) plural سَوَارٍ. (Mgh.)

[And A mast: see حَنَّ and صَرَّ: and see also صَارِيَةٌ.]