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بلط

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

بَلَاطٌ بلاط بلاطة The earth, or ground: (TA:) or even, smooth ground. (K, TA.) ― -b2- The face, or surface, of the earth, or ground: (K:) or the part where what is hard, thereof, i. e. of the earth or ground, ends: (AHn, K:) or the hard part of the exterior thereof. (A, TA.) ― -b3- [ Flag-stones, or flat stones for pavement; and baked bricks for pavement; (a coll. gen. n., of which the n. un. is with ة;)] stones, (S, Msb, K,) and any other things, (Msb,) which are spread in a house (S, K) &c., (S,) or with which a house is spread or paved. (Msb.) ― -b4- Any ground, or floor, paved with such stones, or with baked bricks; (K;) [ a pavement. ] ― -b5- You say with respect to a niggardly and mean man, مَا ذَا يَأْخُذُ الرِّيحُ مِنَ البَلَاطِ [ What will the wind take from the pavement? ]. (TA.) ― -b6- And رَجُلٌ بَلَاطٌ (assumed tropical:) A man poor, or in want. (TA.) ― -b7- And اـِنَّهَا حَسَنَةُ البَلَاطِ اـِذَا جُرِّدَتْ (tropical:) Verily she is goodly, or beautiful, in skin when she is stripped. (TA.)

Derived headwords

بَلَاطٌ
  1. 1.
مَا ذَا يَأْخُذُ الرِّيحُ مِنَ البَلَاطِ
رَجُلٌ بَلَاطٌ
اـِنَّهَا حَسَنَةُ البَلَاطِ اـِذَا جُرِّدَتْ