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شَاطَ

Root: شيط

Form: 1

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شَاطَI , Present.T يَشِيطُ, Verbal.Noun شَيْطٌ and شِيَاطَةٌ and شَيْطُوطَةٌ, It burned, or became burnt; as also تشيّط , said of flesh-meat: or both, said of flesh-meat, signify its upper part became burnt by the contact of fire: the latter is also said of wool; and the former likewise, of wool, and of hair: the former also signifies it was near to becoming burnt: and, said of clarified butter, and of olive-oil, it became cooked so much that it burned; because, in that case, it perishes; [which implies that a signification hereafter to be mentioned is held to be the primary one;] or became thick; or became cooked so much that it almost perished. You say also, شَاطَتِ القِدْرُ The cooking-pot burned, and had something sticking in it: or had something burnt sticking in the bottom of it.
2 شَاطَ, Present.T as above, also signifies He perished, or died. [The art. in the S commences with this signification, which, as remarked above, seems to be regarded by some as the primary one.]
3 Also He burned with anger. (TA in art. شطن.)
4 And It was, or became, null, void, of no account, or of no force.
5 His blood, or it, went for nothing, unretaliated, and uncompensated by a mulct; it was, or became, of no account.
6 And It went away;
7 شَاطَتِ الجَزُورُ The slaughtered camel became dispensed; syn. تَنَفَّقَت; there remained not of it any portion that was not divided and given: and شَاطَ لَحْمُ الجَزُورِ The flesh of the slaughtered camel went away divided and distributed, nothing thereof remaining.
8 شَاطَ also signifies He hastened in an affair.

def.2 [شَاطَهُ seems to be dial. var. of سَاطَهُ, as signifying He mixed it.
2 And hence,] شَاطَ الدِّمَآءَ He mixed the bloods; as though he shed, or poured forth, the blood of the slayer upon that of the slain. A poet, namely, El-Mutalemmis, uses the expression لَوْ تُشَاطُ دِمَاؤُنَا [If our bloods were mixed]; accord. to one relation; but accord. to another, the verb is with س.
3 شَاطَ بِدَمِهِ: see 4.
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