إِصْمِتَ

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إِصْمِتَ and بِبَلْدَةِ إِصْمِتَ AZ explains as meaning [I met him, or met with him, or found him,] in a desert place, in which was no one to cheer by his company: accord. to Kr, بِبَلْدَةٍ إِصْمِتَ; but the phrase commonly known is بِبَلْدَةِ إِصْمِتَ: or تَرَكْتُهُ بِبَلْدَةِ إِصْمِتَ [I left him] in the desert, or waterless desert: or in such a place that it was not known where he was: and بِصَحْرَآءِ إِصْمِتَ meaning as above, or having the latter of these two meanings: and بِوَحْشِ إِصْمِتَ and , mentioned, but not expl., by Lh, meaning as above, or app. meaning in the desert, or waterless desert: and some say, بِوَحْشِ الإِصْمِتَيْنِ: اصمت is as above, with the disjunctive alif; and also with the conjunctive [i. e. ٱصْمِتَ]: it is imperfectly decl., because combining the quality of a proper name with the fem. gender or with the measure of a verb: it is said that the desert, or waterless desert, is thus called because in it one fears much; as though everyone [therein] said to his companion, اصمت [i. e. اُصْمُتْ or أَصْمِتْ, “ Be thou silent ”]; like as they say of a مَهْمَه that it is so called because a man [therein] says to his companion, مَهْ مَهْ: [for] accord. to some the word إِصْمِت is an imperative changed into a subst., and hence the ء is disjunctive, and it may be with kesr accord. to a dial. var. [of the imperative] that has not reached us: accord. to Yákoot, it is the name of a particular desert; but others say that the proper name [of that desert] is وَحْشُ إِصْمِتَ. (TA in art. وحش.)

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