Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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لحب لحت لحج


1. ⇒ لحت

لَحَتَ, aor. ـَ {يَلْحَتُ}, (inf. n. لَحْتٌ, TA,) He beat, struck, or smote, a person with a staff, or stick. (Ḳ.)

Root: لحت - Entry: 1. Dissociation: B

لَحَتَ, aor. ـَ {يَلْحَتُ}, (inf. n. لَحْتٌ, TA,) He peeled, or unbarked, a staff, or stick: (Ḳ:) or sawed it, and peeled, or unbarked it: as also نَحَتَ. (IAạr.)

Root: لحت - Entry: 1. Signification: B2

هٰذَا رَجُلٌ لَا يَضِيرُكَ عَلَيْهِ نَحْتًا وَلَحْتًا expl. by ما يزيدك عليه نحتا اللشعر ولحتا له[This is a man than whom none will be more useful to thee in the trimming of verses: يضيرك, which is written without the syll. points, is probably a mistake for يَضُرُّكَ: see art. ضر]. (IAạr.)

Root: لحت - Entry: 1. Signification: B3

لَحَتَهُ بِالعَذْلِ, aor. ـَ {يَلْحَتُ}, inf. n. لَحْتٌ, [He trimmed him with reproof]: a phrase similar to that immediately preceding. (TA, app. from IAạr.)

Root: لحت - Entry: 1. Signification: B4

لَحَتَهُ, aor. ـَ {يَلْحَتُ}, inf. n. لَحْتٌ, † He took what he had, leaving him nothing; as also لَتَحَهُ. (TA.)

Root: لحت - Entry: 1. Dissociation: C

لَحَتَ Inivit puellam: as also نَحَتَ, but this latter is not so well known. (TA, art. نحت.)


لَحْتٌ

بَرْدٌ بَحْتٌ لَحْتٌ i. q. صَادِقٌ; (Ṣgh, Ḳ;) [i.e., Vehement, or intense, cold: see بَحْتٌ: and see also لَخْتٌ]. لَحْتٌ is here a mere imitative sequent. (TA.)


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