صه1 صَهَّ القَوْمَ He chid the people or party [app. saying to them صَهْ: see what next follows]. (TA.) R. Q. 1 صَهْصَهَ بِهِمْ He silenced them, saying to them صَهْ صَهْ: (K, TA:) and they said also صَهْصَيْتُ [for صَهْصَهْتُ], like as they said دَهْدَيْتُ for دَهْدَهْتُ. (TA.) صَهْ, as also صَهٍ, (S, IAth, K,) and صَهِ, and صَهًا, (TA,) a word used in chiding the person [or persons] to whom it is said, (K, TA,) thus in the M, or rather (TA) it is a verbal noun, (S, IAth, TA,) used in commanding silence, (S, TA,) meaning Be silent, (S, IAth, K, TA,) addressed  to a single person, and to two persons, and to a pl. number, and to a male, and to a female: (IAth, TA:) and one says also صَهٍ صَهْ: Mbr  says, if you say, صَهٍ يَا رَجُلُ [Be silent, O man], it is to distinguish between that which is determinate and that which is indeterminate; صَهٍ being  indeterminate: (S, TA:) [i. e.,] as IJ says, the saying صَهٍ, with tenween, is as though you said سُكُوتًا; and when you pronounce it without tenween, it is as though you said السُّكُوتَ: or, as IAth says, when with tenween, it is as though you said, اُسْكُتْ سُكُوتًا; and when without tenween, as though you said, اُسْكُتِ السُّكُوتَ المَعْرُوفَ مِنْكَ. (TA.)