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شَيَّأْتُهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ [in some copies of the K (erroneously) شِيءْتُهُ ] I incited him, or made him, to do the thing, or affair. (As, S, L, K, TA.) -A2- And شَيَّأَ ا@للّٰهُ وَجْهَهُ , (K, TA,) and خَلْقَهُ , (TA,) God rendered, or may God render, foul, unseemly, or ugly, his face, (K, TA,) and his make. (TA.)

أَشَا=ءَهُ اـِلَيْهِ He, or it, compelled him, constrained him, or necessitated him, to have recourse, or betake himself, to it; syn. أَلْجَأَهُ ; (S, K;) a dial. var. of أَجَا=ءَهُ ; (S;) of the dial. of Temeem. (TA.) Temeem say, شَرٌّ مَا يُشِيوءُكَ اـِلَى مُخَّةِ عُرْقُوبٍ , meaning يُجِيوءُكَ [q. v., i. e. It is an evil thing that compels thee to have recourse to the marrow of a hock]. (S.)

تشيّأ His anger became appeased: (K:) said of a man. (TA.)

شَىْءٌ [A thing; anything; something; somewhat;] a word of well-known meaning: (K:) [sometimes, in poetry, written and pronounced شَىٌّ : see an ex. in a verse cited voce صُوءَابَةٌ : see also the last sentence but one of this paragraph:] الشَّىْءُ properly signifies what may be known, and that whereof a thing may be predicated: (Mgh, KT:) accord. to Sb, it denotes existence, and is a name for anything that has been made to have being, whether an accident, or attribute, or a substance, and such that it may be known, and that a thing may be predicated thereof: (KT:) MF says that it is app. an inf. n. used in the sense of a pass. part. n., meaning what is willed, and meant, or intended, [in which sense ↓ مَشِيْيءَةٌ (pl. مَشِيْا=تٌ ) is often used,] without restriction to its actuality or possibility of being, so that it applies to that which necessarily is, and that which may be, and that which cannot be; accord. to the opinion adopted by the author of the Ksh: [or, as an inf. n. in the sense of a pass. part. n., it may be expl., agreeably with what is said to be the proper meaning of the verb, as signifying what is caused to be or exist; accordingly,] Er-Rághib says that it denotes whatever is caused to be or exist, whether sensibly, as material substances, or ideally, as sayings; and Bd and others expressly assert that it signifies peculiarly what is caused to be or exist; but Sb says that it is the most general of general terms; and some of the scholastic theologians apply it to what is non-existent; such, however, are overcome in their argument by its not being found to have been thus used by the Arabs, and by such passages as كُلُّ شَىْءٍ هَالِكٌ اـِلَّا وَجْهَهُ [Everything is subject to perish except Himself (Kur xxviii. last verse)] and وَاـِنْ مِنْ شَىْءٍ اـِلَّا يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِهِ [And there is not anything but it glorifies Him with praising (Kur xvii. 46)], for what is nonexistent cannot be described as perishing nor imagined to glorify God: (TA:) the pl. is أَشْيَا=ءُ , (S, Msb, K, &c.,) imperfectly decl., (Msb, TA,) or rather this is a quasi-pl. n., (Sb, TA,) respecting the formation of which there is much difference of opinion [as will be shown hereafter], (Msb, TA,) and أَشْيَاوَاتٌ , (S, K,) a pl. pl. [i. e. pl. of أَشْيَا=ءٌ ], (MF, TA,) and أَشَاوَاتٌ , [a contraction of that next preceding,] (K,) and أَشَاوَى , (S, K,) with fet-h to the و , (MF, TA,) and it is also mentioned as with kesr, (TA,) [and is written in both of my copies of the S أَشَاوَى , though if with kesr it should be either أَشَاوٍ or أَشَاوِىُّ , but أَشَاوَى only is meant by J, as is shown by what here follows,] originally أَشَايِىُّ , with three ى s, not أَشَايءِىُّ as J says, [or rather as the word is written in copies of the S, for J may have held it to be أَشَايءِىُّ or أَشَايِىْءُ , as he says that the ء was changed into ى thus occasioning the combination of three ى s, so that he held its secondary form to be أَشَايِىُّ , as will presently be shown,] because the first ى is radical, not augmentative, (IB, K,) the medial ى of the three being suppressed, and the final one changed into ا [though written ى ], and the initial one changed into و , (S,) and another form of pl. is أَشَايَا , (S, Msb, K,) with the ى preserved, not changed into و [as it is in أَشَاوَى ], (TA,) [likewise] a pl. of أَشْيَا=ءُ , (Msb,) and أَشَيَايَا also is mentioned, (K,) as formed [from أَشْيَا=ءُ ] by the change of ء into ى and adding ا , (TA,) and أَشَاوِهُ , which is strange, (Lh, K,) as there is no ه in أَشَيَا=ءُ , (Lh,) or in شَىْءٌ : (K:) with respect to the first of these forms, [the quasi-pl. n.] أَشَيَا=ءُ , the most probable opinion is that of Kh: (Msb, TA:) accord. to him, (S, Msb, K,) it is originally of the measure فَعْلَا=ءُ , (S, K, *) in lieu of أَفْعَالٌ , (K,) and therefore imperfectly decl., (S,) [i. e.] it is originally شَيْيءَا=ءُ , (Msb,) and the two hemzehs combined in the latter portion being found difficult of pronunciation, the former of them is transposed to the beginning of the word, so that it becomes of the measure لَفْعَا=ءُ , (S, Msb,) as is shown by its having for its pls. أَشَاوَى and أَشَايَا and أَشْيَاوَاتٌ : (S:) accord. to Akh, it is [originally] of the measure أَفْعِلَا=ءُ ; (S, K;) but if it were thus a broken pl., [not a quasi-pl. n.,] its dim. would not be ↓ أُشْيَّا=ءُ , as it is, but شُيَيْا=تٌ : (S:) accord. to Ks, it is of the measure أَفْعَالٌ , and made imperfectly decl. because of frequency of usage, being likened to فَعْلَا=ءُ ; but were it so, أَبْنَا=ء and أَسْمَا=ء would be imperfectly decl.: (S, K:) accord. to Fr, شَىْءٌ is originally شَيِّيءٌ , and therefore has a pl. of the measure أَفْعِلَا=ءُ , afterwards contracted to فَعْلَا=ءُ ; but were it so, it would not have for its pl. أَشَاوَى . (S. [Much more respecting this pl. is added in the TA, but it is comparatively unprofitable.]) The dim. of شَىْءٌ is ↓ شُيَىْءٌ and ↓ شِيَىْءٌ ; (S, K, TA, but only the former in some copies of the K, the word being written in other copies شُِيَىْءٌ ;) not ↓ شُوَىٌّ , or ↓ شُوَىْءٌ ; (the former accord. to my two copies of the S and accord. to the copies of the K followed in the TA, in which it is said to be with teshdeed to the ى , and the latter accord. to the CK and my MS. copy of the K;) or this is a dial. var. of weak authority, (K,) used by post-classical poets in their verses. (MF, TA.) ― -b2- When a man says to thee, “ What dost thou desire? ” thou answerest, لَا شَيْيءًا [Nothing]: and when he says, “ Why didst thou that? ” thou answerest, لِلَا شَىْءٍ [For nothing]: and when he says, “ What is thine affair? ” thou answerest, لَا شَىْءٌ [Nothing]: it is with tenween in every one of these cases. (As, AHát, TA.) [When one says لَا شَىْءَ , he means thereby There is nothing.] ― -b3- لَيْسَ بِشَىْءٍ means [It is nought, of no account or weight; it is not worthy of notice, or not worth anything;] it is not a good thing; or it is not a thing to be regarded. (W p. 27.) ― -b4- [ لَيْسَ مِنَ الأَمْرِ فِى شَىْءٍ is a phrase of frequent occurrence, meaning He has no concern with the affair; see two exs. in the first paragraph of art. حوص . ― -b5- فِيهِ شَىْءٍِ مِنَ الطُّولِ occurs in the TA voce حُسْبَانَةٌ , meaning In it is somewhat, or some degree, of length; i. e. it is somewhat long; and is used in the present day in this sense.] ― -b6- In the phrase هُوَ أَحْسَنُ مِنْكَ شَيْيءًا , the last word is for بِشَىْءٍ [i. e. He is better than thou in something; meaning he is somewhat better than thou]. (IJ, L.) ― -b7- مَا أَغْفَلَهُ عَنْكَ شَيْيءًا is a phrase of the Arabs [app. lit. signifying How unmindful of thee is he as to anything!] mentioned by Sb as meaning دَعِ الشَّكَّ عَنْكَ [Dismiss doubt from thee (respecting him as to anything)]: IJ says that شييءا is here put in the accus. case as an inf. n., as though the saying were مَا أَغْفَلَهُ عَنْكَ غُفُولًا , because the verb of wonder does not require to be corroborated by the inf. n. [proper to it]: (L, TA:) [or it is a specificative:] IF says that it is a phrase of dubious meaning; and that the most probable explanation of it is this; that ما is here lit. interrogative, but in meaning denotative of wonder; and that شييءا is governed in the accus. case by some other word, or phrase, as though the saying were dismiss a thing by which he is not occupied in mind, and dismiss doubt as to his being occupied in mind by it. (TA in art. ما .) ― -b8- [ شَيْيءًا فَشَيْيءًا means Thing by thing, part by part, bit by bit, piecemeal, inch by inch, drop by drop, little and little in succession, by little and little, by degrees or gradually.] ― -b9- أَىُّ شَىْءٍ [meaning What thing?] is, by the alleviation of the ى [in اىّ ] and the suppression of the ء [in شىء ], made into one word, أَيْشَىْ : so says El-Fárábee: (Msb:) or, [as is commonly the case in the present day,] by reason of frequency of usage, it is contracted into أَيْشَ . (TA in art. جرم , as on the authority of Ks.) ― -b10- شَىْءٌ in the Kur lx. 11 may mean Any one (Bd, Jel) or more. (Jel.) ― -b11- [It is also applied to (assumed tropical:) The penis of a man; as in the explanation of a phrase mentioned voce ذَنَبٌ ; like as its syn. هَنٌ is to the same and (more commonly) to the “ vulva ” of a woman.] ― -b12- In algebra, it signifies [A square root;] a number that is multiplied into itself; which in arithmetic [and in algebra also] is called جذر [i. e. جَذْرٌ ]; and in geometry, ضلع [i. e. ضِلْعٌ or ضِلَعٌ ]; (“ Dict. of the Techn. Terms used in the Sciences of the Musalmans, ” p. 202;) an unknown number that is multiplied into itself. (Idem, p. 730.) -A2- It is also said, on the authority of Lth, to signify Water: and he cites as an ex., تَرَى رَكْبَهُ بِالشَّىْءِ فِى وَسْطِ قَفْرَةٍ [Thou seest, or wilt see, his company of riders at the water in the midst of a desert]: but AM says, I know not الشىء in the sense of “ water, ” nor know I what it is. (TA.) -A3- يَا شَىْءَ is an expression of regret, (El-Ahmar, Ks, TA,) or of wonder, (K, TA,) [or of both,] meaning [Oh! or] O my wonder! (Ks, Lh, TA.) One says, يَا شَىْءَ مَا لِى , (El-Ahmar, Ks, Lh, K,) and يَا شَىَّ مَا لِى , i. e. with and without ء , (Ks, TA,) and يَا هَىْءَ مَا لِى , (Lh, K,) يا هَىَّ ما لى , and يَا فَىَّ ما لى , (El-Ahmar, Ks, TA,) neither of these two with ء , (Ks, TA,) [meaning Oh! or O my wonder! What has happened to me?] in all of these, (Ks, TA,) ما being in the place of a noun in the nom. case. (Ks, Lh, TA.) ― -b2- Some also say, يَا شَىْءَ and يَا هَىَّ and يَا فَىَّ , and some add مَا , saying, يَا شَىْءَ مَا and يَا هَىَّ مَا and يَا فَىَّ مَا , meaning How good, or beautiful, is this! (Ks, TA.)

شِيْيءَةٌ [Will, wish, or desire,] a subst. from شَا=ءَهُ , (Lh, K,) [and] so is ↓ مَشِيْيءَةٌ [which is mentioned in the K as an inf. n.]. (Msb.) One says, كُلُّ شَىْءٍ بِشِيْيءَةِ ا@للّٰهِ , (S, K,) i. e. ↓ بَمِشِيْيءَتِهِ [Everything is by the will of God]. (S.)

شُيَىْءٌ and شِيَىْءٌ and شُوَىٌّ or شُوَىْءٌ : see شَىْءٌ in the middle of the paragraph.

شَيِّا=نٌ and شَيَّا=نٌ : see art. شوأ .

أُشَيَّا=ءُ dim. of أَشْيَا=ءُ : see شَىْءٌ , in the latter part of the former half of the paragraph.

مَشِيْيءَةٌ : see شِيْيءَةٌ , in two places: ― -b2- and see also شَىْءٌ , near the beginning of the paragraph.

مُشَيَّأٌ Incongruous, unsound, (K, TA,) foul, or ugly, (TA,) in make, or formation. (K, TA. [See Ham p. 192.]) ― -b2- And accord. to Aboo-Sa'eed, A child born preposterously, the legs coming forth before the arms. (TA.)