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سَقْطَةٌ

Root: سقط

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سَقْطَةٌ [A fall: or] a violent fall.
2 A slip, lapse, fault, or wrong action; as also سِقَاطٌ ; and سَقْطٌ ; which last is also used in a pl. sense: or the second (سقاط) is pl. of سَقْطَةٌ: as sing., it is an Verbal.Noun of سَاقَطَ: and سَقْطَةٌ also signifies a bad word or saying, that swerves from rectitude: (TA in art. عور:) its pl., or one of its pls., is سَقَطَاتٌ. You say, لَايَخْلُو أَحَدٌ مِنْ سَقْطَةٍ [No one will be free from a slip]. And الكَامِلُ مَنْ عُدَّتْ سَقَطَاتُهُ [The perfect is he whose slips are so few that they may be counted].
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