غَلَتَ
Root: غلت
Form: 1
Full Definition
غَلَتَI
, Present.T
ـُ Verbal.Noun غَلْتٌ, He rescinded, or annulled, a purchase or sale.
def.2 غَلِتَ, [Present.T ـُ] Verbal.Noun غَلَتٌ, i. q. غَلِطَ [He made a mistake, or committed an error, &c.]: or the former means in reckoning, or computation; and the latter, in speech, i. e. he said a thing by mistake meaning to say another thing; or the latter means in reckoning and in speech. It is said in a trad., لَا غَلَتَ فِى الإِسْلَامِ [There shall he no غَلَت in El-Islám], meaning, [for instance,] a man's saying “ I bought of thee this garment, or piece of cloth, for a hundred deenárs ” and thy then finding that he bought it for less.
def.2 غَلِتَ, [Present.T ـُ] Verbal.Noun غَلَتٌ, i. q. غَلِطَ [He made a mistake, or committed an error, &c.]: or the former means in reckoning, or computation; and the latter, in speech, i. e. he said a thing by mistake meaning to say another thing; or the latter means in reckoning and in speech. It is said in a trad., لَا غَلَتَ فِى الإِسْلَامِ [There shall he no غَلَت in El-Islám], meaning, [for instance,] a man's saying “ I bought of thee this garment, or piece of cloth, for a hundred deenárs ” and thy then finding that he bought it for less.
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