Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَتْحٌ

Root: وتح

Full Definition

وَتْحٌ , and , and وَتَحٌ , and وَتِيحٌ , A little, or small, and paltry, mean, or contemptible, thing. One says also شَىْءٌ وَتَحٌ وَعْرٌ A small, or little, or scanty, thing: the latter of the two epithets being an imitative sequent; or, correctly, a corroborative.
2 مَا أَغْنَى وعَنِّى , a phrase like ما اغنى عنّى عَبَكَةً, or He, or it, was of no profit, or advantage, to me.
3 طَعَامٌ وَتْحٌ Food in which is no good; like وَحْتٌ.
4 رَجُلٌ A vile, mean, or contemptible, man.


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