Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَوْتَكٌ

Root: حتك

Full Definition

حَوْتَكٌ and Short, and lean, or emaciated, and small in body, or slender in the bones, and short in step; applied to a man and to an ass: or the former signifies anything short: or small in body, and mean, or ignoble: and ↓ the latter, anything small, or young: and also, the latter, a man that eats vehemently.


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