ساقطهُ

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ساقطهُIII , Verbal.Noun مُسَاقَطَةٌ and سِقَاطٌ, i. q. [q. v.]: or he made it to fall, fall down, drop, drop down, or tumble down, in consecutive portions or quantities; syn. تَابَعَ إِسْقَاطَهُ [in the CK اَسْقاطَهُ]: or it has both of these significations. A poet says, namely Dábi Ibn-El-Hárith ElBurjumee, describing a [wild] bull and the dogs, يُسَاقِطُ عَنْهُ رَوْقُهُ ضَارِ يَاتِهَا سِقَاطَ حَدِيدِ القَيْنِ أَخْوَلَ أَخْوَلَا [His horn makes to fall consecutively from him those of them that were trained for hunting, as the iron of the blacksmith makes sparks to fall consecutively, scattered about].
2 ساقط الخَيْلَ He outstripped the [other] horses: [as though he made them to drop behind him, one after another.]
3 ساقطهُ الحَدِيثَ, Verbal.Noun سِقَاطٌ and مُسَاقَطَةٌ, [He discoursed with him alternately;] discourse fell (سَقَطَ) from each of them to the other, so as that one discoursed, and the other listened to him, and when he became silent, he who had been silent discoursed: or he discoursed to him telling him thing after thing.
4 كَانَ يُسَاقِطُ ذٰلِكَ عَنْ رَسُولِ ٱللّٰهِ He used to relate that from the Apostle of God amid his discourse; as though he mixed his discourse therewith.

def.2 ساقط الفَرَسُ العَدْوَ, Verbal.Noun سِقَاطٌ, The horse came [running] in a slack, or languid, manner: or سِقَاطٌ in a horse is the incessantly having the foot wounded and made to bleed by stones, or hurt thereby. You say also فَرَسٌ رَيّثُ السِقَاطِ A horse slow in running.
2 ساقط الرَّجُلُ, Verbal.Noun سِقَاطٌ, The man failed of attaining to the condition of the generous, or noble.

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