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غَثٌّ

Root: غث

Full Definition

غَثٌّ Lean, or meagre; as also غَثِيثٌ ; both applied to flesh-meat; and the former, with ة, to a شَاة [i. e. sheep or goat]: pl. غِثَاثٌ.
2 Hence, i. e. as being likened to flesh-meat thus termed, كَلَامٌ غَثٌّ Speech, or language, that is [meagre,] without grace, or beauty. One says, فِى الكَلَامِ الغَثُّ وَالسَّمِينُ [In speech, or the speech, is what is meagre and what is vigorous; or] what is good and what is bad [or rather what is bad and what is good]. And حَدِيثُكُمْ غَثٌّ وَسِلَاحُكُمْ رَثٌّ [Your talk, or discourse, is meagre, or bad, and your weapons are old and worn out]. And قَوْمٌ غَثَثَةٌ [A people, or party, meagre, or bad, in speech: غَثَثَةٌ being pl. of غَثٌّ, like as بَرَرَةٌ is of بَرٌّ].


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