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حَتٌّ

Root: حت

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حَتٌّ : see حُتَات.
2 Also Dead; [as though strewn upon the ground, in fragments;] applied to locusts (جَرَاد): pl. أَحْتَاتٌ; its only pl. [Hence, app.,] تَرَكُوهُمْ حَتًّا بَتًّا and حَتًّا فَتًّا They destroyed them.
3 Dates (تَمْر) not sticking together. [See also حُثٌّ.]
4 A fleet, or swift, horse; as though he scraped the ground; light in pace, and wide in step: pl. as above: or a fleet, or swift, and excellent horse; that runs swiftly and much, or that furrows the ground much with his feet: also generous and high-bred (كَرِيمٌ عَتِيقٌ [app. as applied to a horse]): and a fleet, or swift, camel: a quick-paced and light-paced camel; as also حَتْحَتٌ : and a male ostrich. The Hudhalee says, namely, El-Aalam, على حَتِّ البُرَايَةِ زَمْخَرِىِّ السْ سَوَاعِدِ ظَلَّ فِى شَرْىٍ طِوَالِ he likens himself, says As, in his running and fleeing, to a male ostrich, as is shown by what precedes this verse: by حتّ البراية is said to be meant حَتٍّ عِنْدَ البُرَايَةِ, i. e. fleet, or swift, when emaciated by journeying; the subst. براية being said to be put for the Verbal.Noun بَرْى: some of the Basrees say that the poet means a camel; but As disapproves of this, because to that which he here describes he has before applied the epithet هِجَفّ: ISd says that in his opinion he likens his horse or his camel to a male ostrich, because of the epithet هجفّ, preceding, and because neither the horse nor the camel eats the colocynth, but this plant is cropped by ostriches; شرى meaning the colocynth: IJ says that شرى here signifies a tree of which bows are made; and the poet means that if the trees thus called are tall, they conceal him, and he is the more lonesome, or sad; and that if they were short, his eye would range freely, and he would be pleased, and would run gently.

def.2 See also حَتَّى, near the end of the paragraph.
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