سَاقِطٌ

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سَاقِطٌ Falling; falling down; dropping; dropping down; tumbling down; as also سَقُوطٌ ; which latter is both masc. and fem.
2 سَاقِطَةٌ [its fem., as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates,] A fruit that falls before maturity: pl. سَوَاقِطُ: which also signifies what falls from palm-trees: or branches that fall; not fruits.
3 هُوَ سَاقِطٌ فِى يَدِهِ: see مَسْقُوطٌ.
4لِكُلِّ لَاقِطَةٌ For every saying that falls from one, there is a person who will take it up: or for every word that falls from the mouth of the speaker, there is a person who will hear it and pick it up and publish it: a prov., relating to the guarding of the tongue: the ة in لاقطة is either to give intensiveness to the meaning or for the purpose of assimilation.
5 مِنْ حَرٍ Fallings of heat. [See 1, near the end of the paragraph.]
6 سَاقِطٌ also signifies Hanging down; pendent; pendulous: and the pl. is سُقَّاطٌ.
7 [And Tottering by reason of age.] You say شَيْخٌ سَاقِطٌ كِبَرًا [An old man tottering by reason of age]. (K in art. درهم.)
8 Also Low, ignoble, base, vile, or mean, in respect of the deeds or qualities of his ancestors, and of himself; and so سَاقِطَةٌ : or, in respect of the deeds or qualities of his ancestors, and of his race; and so سَاقِطَةٌ : one who is not reckoned among the better, or best, class of young men; as also سَقْطٌ : one who is, or remains, behind, or in the rear of, other men: [obscure, unnoted, reputeless, or of no reputation:] pl. سُقَّاطٌ and سَقْطَى and سِقَاطٌ, which last is like نِيَامٌ as pl. of نَائِمٌ, and سُقَطَآءُ, [by rule a pl. of سَقِيطٌ, which see in what follows,] and [is pl. of سَاقِطَةٌ]. The epithets سَاقِطٌ مَاقِطٌ لَاقِطٌ are used together, as signifying Low, ignoble, base, vile, or mean; applied to a man; as is said in the L: or, accord. to the O, [and the S in art. مقط,] the Arabs say, in reviling, فُلَانٌ سَاقِطُ بْنُ مَاقِطِ بْنِ لَاقِطٍ, meaning Such a one is a slave of a slave of a slave of a freedman, son of a slave of a slave of a freedman, son of a slave of a freedman; the ساقط being the slave of the ماقط, and the ماقط being the slave of the لاقط, and the لاقط being the slave of the freedman. سُقَّاطُ النَّاسِ signifies, accord. to IAar, The refuse, rabble, or lowest or basest or meanest sort, of mankind, or of people; (TA in art. خشر;) as also النَّاسِ, and النَّاسِ, as being likened to those articles of a tent or house which are termed سَقَطٌ, q. v.: and سُقَّاطُ الجُنْدِ Soldiers of whom no account is made. سَاقِطَةٌ , in the K سَقِيطَةٌ , but this is a mistake, or, applied to a man, only used when immediately followed by لَقِيطَةٌ, (TA in art. لقط,) also signifies Deficient in intellect, or intelligence, or understanding; as also سَقِيطٌ ; and is the fem. of the latter; and signifies also, applied to a woman, Low, ignoble, base, vile, or mean, and stupid. You say also, هُوَ الفِعْلِ [He is mean in conduct: or one of whose actions no account is made].
9 Also, [as signifying Vile, mean, or paltry,] applied to a thing: (TA in art. لقط:) [a thing] falling short of the due, or just, mean. (M in art. وسط.)
10 سَاقِطُ الشَّدِ A horse that runs interruptedly.
11 Persons who come to El-Yemámeh to bring thence for themselves provisions of dates.
12 And ↓ this last word, Small, low mountains, [as though] cleaving to the ground.

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