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شيط

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

4 اشاطهُ ذ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. اـِشَاطَةٌ, (Msb,) He burned it, or made it to burn; (Msb, K;) namely, a thing, (Msb,) as, for instance, olive-oil; (TA;) as also ↓ شيّطهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَشْيِيطٌ. (TA.) ↓ The latter also signifies He burned its wool, namely, that of a sheep, in order to cleanse it; and so شوّطهُ: (S, TA:) and each of these, he (a cook) set it on fire, namely the foot of a bull or cow, or of a sheep or goat, and the head, so that what was upon it, of hair, or wool, became burnt. (TA.) You say also, شاط القِدْرَ He made the cooking-pot to burn, and to have something sticking in it. (S.) And القِدْرَ ↓ شيّط He made the cooking-pot to boil; as also شوّطها. (ElKilábee.) And اللَّحْمَ ↓ شيّط He cooked thoroughly the flesh-meat; as also شوّطهُ: (Ibn-'Abbád:) or he smoked it, or made it smoky, and did not thoroughly cook it; (S;) and so the latter. (TA in art. شوط.) And الضَّبُعُ النَّبْتَ ↓ شيّط; and الدَّوَاآءُ الجُرْحَ; (tropical:) The year of drought burned the herbage; and the medicine, the wound. (A, TA:) [See also شَوَّطَ.] ― -b2- Also, (K,) inf. n. as above, (S,) He destroyed him, or it. (S, K.) ― -b3- اشاط دَمَهُ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and بِدَمِهِ, (S, K,) He (the Sultán, Mgh, Msb) made his blood to go for nothing, unretaliated, and uncompensated by a mulct; made it to be of no account: (Mgh, Msb, K, * TA:) or the latter, (TA,) or both, (K,) he laboured to destroy him, or to kill him: (K, TA:) or both, he exposed him to slaughter: (S, K:) or, accord. to IAmb, you say, بِدَمِهِ ↓ شَاطَ, meaning he exposed him to destruction. (TA.) You say also, اشاط دَمَ الجَزُورِ He shed the blood of the camel that was to be slaughtered. (As, K.) ― -b4- اشاط اللَّحْمَ (tropical:) He distributed the flesh, (K, TA,) i. e. the flesh of a slaughtered camel: (TA:) or اشاط الجَزُورَ he dispensed the last remaining portion of the slaughtered camel, after all beside had been distributed. (S, TA.) Also (assumed tropical:) He cut up, or cut in pieces, the flesh of the slaughtered camel before the distribution. (ISh.)

Derived headwords

اشاطهُverb
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شاط القِدْرَ
الضَّبُعُ النَّبْتَ
الدَّوَاآءُ الجُرْحَ
اشاط دَمَهُ
اشاط دَمَ الجَزُورِ
اشاط اللَّحْمَ
اشاط الجَزُورَ