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خَطِيطٌ

Root: خط

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خَطِيطٌ [A valley not rained upon]. (AO, TA voce خَطْوَةٌ, q. v.) And خَطِيطَةٌ [or أَرْضٌ خَطِيطَةٌ] Land not rained upon; as also خِطٌّ : or land not rained upon between two lands that have been rained upon: or land of which part has been rained upon, and part has not: or land not rained upon surrounded by land that has been rained upon; as also ↓ the latter word: pl. of the former, خَطَائِطُ.
2 Hence the saying of a certain Arab, to his son, اِلْزَمْ خَطِيطَةَ الذُّلِّ مَخَافَةَ مَا هُوَ أَشَدُّ مِنْهُ [Keep thou to the condition of abasement in fear of what is more grievous than it].
3 خَطِيطَةٌ also signifies A strip of ground differing in roughness and smoothness from what is on either side of it: pl. as above.


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