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فتح

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

فَتَّاحٌ ذ [ An opener: and an unlocker. ― -b2- And hence, (assumed tropical:) A conquerer. ― -b3- And], in the dial. of Himyer, (TA,) (tropical:) A judge; one who decides between litigants: (S, Msb, K, TA:) it is like ↓ فَاتِحٌ, but [this signifies simply judging, and the former] has an intensive signification. (Msb.) الفَتَّاحُ, as an epithet applied to God, in the Kur xxxiv. 25, means (assumed tropical:) The Judge: or, accord. to IAth, (assumed tropical:) the Opener of the gates of sustenance and of mercy to his servants. (TA.) ― -b4- بَيْتٌ فَتَّاحٌ means A wide, or an ample, house or tent. (El-Fáïk, TA.) ― -b5- And الفَتَّاحُ signifies A certain bird, (K,) which is black, and which moves about its tail much, or often; white in the base of the tail, beneath it; and there is a sort thereof red; (TA;) also called أُمُّ عَجْلَانَ: (O in art. عجل:) pl. فَتَاتِيحُ, (K,) to which is added in the K, “ without ا and ل; ” but there is no reason why it should not have ال prefixed to it; and perhaps it should be correctly “ without ا and ت, ” i. e. it is not pluralized with ا and ت [as an affix to the sing.], as in the L &c. (MF, TA.)

Derived headwords

فَتَّاحٌ
  1. 1.
بَيْتٌ فَتَّاحٌ
أُمُّ عَجْلَانَ