لَقَطَهُ
Root: لقط
Form: 1
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لَقَطَهُI
, Present.T
ـُ Verbal.Noun لَقْطٌ, He picked it up, took it up, raised it, or took it, from the ground, without trouble or fatigue; as also
التقطهُ : or both signify he took it from a place where it was not thought to be; this being the primary signification: and hence, he took it. It is said of a man: and you say also, لَقَطَ الطَّائِرُ الحَبَّ [The bird picked up from the ground the grains]. The Arabs say to a calumniator, إِنَّ عِنْدَكَ دِيكًا الحَصَى [Verily thou hast a cock that picks up pebbles]. And it is said in a proverb, أَصَيْدَ القُنْفُذِ أَمْ لَقْطَهُ [Is it by the hunting of the hedgehog or the picking up thereof from the ground?] applied to a poor man who becomes rich suddenly. [In Freytag's Arab. Prov. أَصَيْدُ القُنْفُذِ أَمْ لُقَطَةٌ: and there asserted to be said of him who finds a thing which he had not sought: or, accord. to Sharafed-Deen, of a thing of the nature of which we may be uncertain.] You say also, لَقَطْتُ العِلْمِ
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