قَتَّاتٌ
Root: قت
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قَتَّاتٌ
and
قَتُوتٌ and
, this last being used as an Verbal.Noun and as an epithet, A man wont to calumniate; or to make known, divulge, or tell, discourse, or conversation, in a malicious, or mischievous, manner, so as to occasion discord, dissension, or the like; [or wont to falsify and embellish discourse, or conversation: ] or who listens to the discourse, or conversation, of others, without their knowing; whether he make it known in the manner explained above, or not: or قَتَّاتٌ, accord. to Khálid Ibn-Jembeh, signifies one who hears the discourses, or conversations, of men, and informs their enemies: or, as some say, one who is with a people, or party, and calumniates them: it is said in a trad. of the Prophet that the قَتَّات will not enter Paradise: the epithets قَتَّاتَةٌ and
فَتُوتٌ are applied to a woman: and the pl. of قَتَّاتٌ is قُتَّاتٌ, with damm.
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