سائح

Derived from the active participle of the verb سَاحَ‎ (sāḥa, “to travel”), from the root س ي ح‎ (s-y-ḥ).

• IPA^(key): /saː.ʔiħ/

سَائِح • (sāʔiḥ) m (plural سَائِحُون‎ (sāʔiḥūn) or سُيَّاح‎ (suyyāḥ), feminine سَائِحَة‎ (sāʔiḥa))

1. tourist
2. traveler, wanderer

   Synonym: مُسَافِر‎ (musāfir)

3. visitor
4. someone who fasts in a mosque or mortifies himself
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 9:112:

     ‏التَّائِبُونَ الْعَابِدُونَ الْحَامِدُونَ السَّائِحُونَ الرَّاكِعُونَ السَّاجِدُونَ الْآمِرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَالنَّاهُونَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَالْحَافِظُونَ لِحُدُودِ اللَّهِ ۗ وَبَشِّرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‎

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5. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) hermit
6. wandering dervish

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Lane, Edward William (1863), “سائح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “سائح”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen