Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

اسكت

Root: سكت

Form: 4

Full Definition

اسكتIV as an intrans. verb: see 1, in nine places.
2 He turned away, and spoke not; occurring in this sense in a trad.: and اسكت عَنِ الشَّىْءِ He turned away from the thing.

def.2 اسكتهُ and سكّتهُ both signify the same, said of God [and of a man]; He made him, or rendered him, silent, mute, or speechless; [he silenced, or hushed, him;] namely, a person speaking. And اسكتهُ عَنِى [He made him to abstain from speaking of, or to, me]. (As, TA in art. نصت.) And اسكت الصَّبِىَّ بِسُكْتَةٍ [He silenced, or hushed, the child with a سُكْتَة]. And أُسْكِتَ means He was silenced in a dispute or the like.
2 [And hence, He stilled, quieted, appeased, tranquillized, calmed, allayed, assuaged, or quelled, it.] In the Kur vii. 153, some read, وَلَمَّا عَنْ مُوسَى الغَضَبُ and أُسْكِتَ [i. e. And when the anger was stilled so that it was made to depart from Moses].


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