Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَبْلَطَ

Root: بلط

Form: 4

Full Definition

أَبْلَطَIV He clave to the [بَلَاط, i. e.] earth, or ground; said of a man: he became bankrupt, or insolvent, or reduced to a state of difficulty or poverty, or without any property, and clave to the بَلَاط: he became poor, and his property went away; as also أُبْلِطَ: so says Ks; and AZ says the like: or he became poor; or had little property.

def.2 أَبْلَطَ اللِّصُّ القَوْمَ The robber left the people, or company of men, upon the surface of the ground, and left them not anything: or simply, left them not anything.
2 ابلط المَطَرُ الأَرْضَ The rain fell upon the بَلَاط [or surface] of the earth, so that no dust was seen upon it.
3 See also 1.


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