Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَطَّ

Root: اط

Form: 1

Full Definition

أَطَّI , Present.T اَطِطَ Verbal.Noun أَطِيطٌ and أَطٌّ, It produced, made, gave, emitted, or uttered, a sound, noise, voice, or cry; [and particularly, it creaked; and it moaned;] said of a camel's saddle, (S, * K, [in the CK, الرَّجُلُ is put by mistake for الرَّحْلُ ]) [and particularly of a new camel's saddle,] and the like, such as a [plaited or woven girth called] نِسْع and of everything of which the sound resembles that of a new camel's saddle, and of a palm-trunk, and of a tree of the kind called سِدْر, or of the kind called سَرْح, and of a cane or reed on the occasion of its being straightened, [in which instance it is said to be tropical, but if so it is tropical in several other instances,] and of a bow, and of the belly by reason of emptiness, and, in a trad. of Aboo-Dharr, of heaven, or the sky, notwithstanding there being [really] no أَطِيط in this instance, for it is meant to denote [the presence of] multitude, and confirmation of the majesty of God. [It is also said of other things, as will be shown by phrases here following, and by explanations of أَطِيطٌ below.] You also say, أَطَّتِ الإِبِلُ, Present.T as above, Verbal.Noun أَطِيطٌ, The camels moaned by reason of fatigue, or uttering their yearning cry to their young, and sometimes by reason of fulness of their udders with milk. And لَا آتِيكَ مَا أَطَّتِ الإِبِلُ I will not come to thee as long as camels utter cries [or moan] by reason of the heaviness of their loads. And لَا أَفْعَلُ ذٰلِكَ مَا أَطَّتِ الإِبِلُ, meaning I will not do that ever. And مَا لَنَا بَعِيرٌ يَئِطُّ We have not a camel that moans, or cries; meaning we have not any camel; for the camel cannot but do so. [See also أَطِيطٌ, below.] And أَطَّتْ لَهُ رَحِمِى [My feeling of relationship, or sympathy of blood,] became affected with tenderness, or compassion, and became moved, [or rather pleaded,] for him [or in his favour]: and hence ↓التَّأَطُّطُ [Verbal.Noun of the verb in the syn. phrase تَأَطَّطَتْ لَهُ رَحِمِى]. And أَطَّتْ بِكَ الرَّحِمُ [The feeling of relationship, or sympathy of blood, pleaded, or hath pleaded, in thee;] i. e., inclined thee to favour. [See another ex. voce حَاسَّةٌ.]


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