صَمَتَ
Root: صمت
Form: 1
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صَمَتَI
, Present.T
ـُ Verbal.Noun صَمْتٌ and صُمْتٌ and صُمُوتٌ and صُمَاتٌ, or the first of these is the Verbal.Noun and the rest are simple substs.; and
, Verbal.Noun إِصْمَاتٌ; and
صمّت , Verbal.Noun تَصْمِيتٌ; He was, or became, silent, mute, or speechless; syn. سَكَتَ: or he was, or became, long silent or mute or speechless: but there is a difference between سَكَتَ and صَمَتَ; for the former is said of him who has the power, or faculty, of speech, but abstains from making use of it; whereas the latter is sometimes said of that which has not the power, or faculty, of speech. (Er-Rághib, MF and TA in art. سكت.) The Arabs say, and it is said in a trad., لَا صَمْتَ يَوْمًا إِلَى اللَّيْلِ, or يَوْمٌ, or يَوْمٍ, i. e. There shall be no keeping silence a whole day [until night]. (Ks, K, TA. [In the “ Jámi' es-Sagheer, ” we find لا صُمَاتَ instead of لا صَمْتَ: and El-Munáwee, in his Commentary on that work, says that the keeping silence for a whole day is forbidden by the words of this trad. because it is an imitation of a Christian custom.]) And إِذْنُهَا صُمَاتُهَا [in another trad., relating to the asking a virgin if she consent to be married, lit. Her permission is her silence,] means her silence is like her permission, i. e. it suffices. One says also, جَآءَ بِمَا صَآءَ وَصَمَتَ
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