قَتَّ
Root: قت
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 And قَتٌّ [app. as an Verbal.Noun] signifies The lying, or uttering of falsehood: [or] a prepared lying.
3 And قَتَّهُ, Verbal.Noun قَتٌّ, signifies قَدَّهُ [meaning He cut it out, or shaped it, in any manner, whether lengthwise or otherwise]. One says, هُوَ حَسَنُ القَتِّ, meaning حَسَنُ القَدِّ [i. e. He is goodly, or beautiful, in conformation]: and a poet says,
meaning قَدًّا and خَرْطًا [i. e. As though her two breasts, when they come forth unexpectedly (a meaning of ابرنتى expl. in the L, in art. برت, on the authority of Lh, but it is here expl. in the TA as signifying انتصب, so that the phrase may be rendered either when appearing unexpectedly, or when standing out), were two round boxes of ivory, excellently cut out, or shaped, and made smooth in their surfaces]: regarding them as one member, he has made the verb singular.كَأَنَّ ثَدْيَيْهَا إِذَا مَا ٱبْرَنْتَى حُقَّانِ مِنْ عَاجٍ أُجِيدَا قَتَّا
4 Also He prepared, disposed, or arranged, it; or put it into a right, or good, state.
5 And He collected it together by little and little.
6 And He made it, or made it to appear, to be little; syn. قَلَّلَهُ. And قَتَّ أَثَرَهُ, Present.T
7 And قَتٌّ signifies also The following the footsteps of a man secretly, in order to know what he desires [to do].
8 And A pastor's smelling the odour of a camel that is مَهْيُوم [i. e.] that is smitten by the [disease termed] هُيَام. (O, TA. [Freytag, supposing مَهْيُوم in this explanation in the K to be syn. with هَائِم, renders the verb as meaning He smelt the urine of a straying camel, that he might know its way.])
def.2 See also the next paragraph.
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