غوط

غَائِطٌ ذ A wide, depressed piece of ground or land, (ISh, S, O, Msb, K,) but not much depressed, and in some instances having acclivities [ bordering it ]; (ISh;) sometimes, as they assert, a league (فَرْسَخ) in extent, and having in it meadows; (AHn;) and ↓ غَاطٌ and ↓ غَوْطٌ signify the same; (O, K;) or the last is more depressed than the غائط: (IDrd, O:) and غائط is also applied to a valley: (TA:) the pl. [of pauc.] is أَغْوَاطٌ, (S, Msb, K,) or this is pl. of غَوْطٌ, (IB,) and [of mult.] غِيطَانٌ, (S, Msb, K,) which is pl. of both these sings., (IB,) and غُوطٌ (S, Msb, K) and غِيَاطٌ. (K.) ― -b2- Hence, (tropical:) A place in which one satisfies a want of nature; the custom being to do so in a depressed place, where one is concealed. (S, * Msb, * TA.) In the Kur [iv. 46, or v. 9], accord. to an extraordinary reading, it is written ↓ غَيْط, [a form now commonly used, and signifying a garden, but there meaning a privy place, ] the original form of which may be غَيْوِط, and then غَيِّط, [and then غَيْط,] it being contracted; or, accord. to Abu-l- Hasan, the ى may be originally و, these two letters being in this instance interchangeable. (IJ.) You say, أَتَى الغَائِطَ, (S, TA,) and ضَرَبَ الغَائِطَ, (TA,) (tropical:) He satisfied a want of nature; (S, TA;) voided excrement, or ordure. (TA.) ― -b3- And hence, (S, TA,) (tropical:) Human excrement, or ordure: (S, K, TA:) because they used to cast it away in a غائط: or because they used to go thither to satisfy a want of nature. (TA.)