سُرًى

, [said by some to be a verbal noun, by some to be a simple subst., and by some to be plural of سُرْيَةٌ, or supposed to be so, and therefore made feminine, as mentioned in the first sentence of this article,] meaning A journeying, or travelling, by night, or in the night, in a general sense, is masculine and feminine, (M, K,) by some of the Arabs made feminine, (S,) and not known to Lh but as a feminine noun. (M.) It is said in a prov.,

عِنْدَ الصَّبَاحِ يَحْمَدُ القَوْمُ السُّرَى

[At daybreak, the party commend night-journeying]: applied to the man who endures difficulty, or distress, or fatigue, hoping for rest, or ease: (Meyd:) and in inciting to labour for the accomplishment of an affair with patience, and to dispose and subject the mind, until one commends the result thereof. (Har p. 555, q. v.)