خَاتَ
Root: خوت
Form: 1
Full Definition
def.2 Also خات, Verbal.Noun خَوْتٌ, He seized, or snatched away, a thing; and so تخوّت , and . (TA in art. خيت [where this last is said to belong to the present art.].) You say of the hawk, الطَّيْرَ He seized, or snatched away, the birds: (TA in art. خيت:) and of the wolf, الشَّاةَ He seized, or snatched away, the sheep or goat; (TA in art. خيت;) or he stole away the sheep or goat by stratagem.
2 خات مَالَهُ He lessened, or diminished, his property; or took from it by little and little; syn. تَنَقَّصَهُ; as also تخوّت مَالَهُ, and تخوّفهُ: and خَاتَهُ مَالَهُ, Present.T يَخُوتُهُ and يَخِيتُهُ, [he lessened, or diminished, to him his property; or did so by taking from it by little and little;] both signify the same. (K in art. خيت.)
3 And خات He lessened, diminished, or impaired, his provision of corn or food (مِيرَتَهُ); or made it defective, or deficient.
def.3 خات, also signifies He broke his promise: and broke, or dissolved, his compact, contract, or covenant.
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