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10 استمات ذ [ He sought death: &c.: see مُسْتَمِيتٌ]. ― -b2- اـِسْتَمِيتُوا صَيْدَكُمْ, and دَابَّتَكُمْ, Wait until ye ascertain that your game, and your beast of carriage, has died. (A.) ― -b3- استمات [properly, He sought, or courted, death; ] i. q. استقتل; (S, K; in art. قتل;) meaning he cared not for death, by reason of his courage. (JM, in art. قتل.) ― -b4- استمات (assumed tropical:) He (a man) was pleased with death; content to die. (TA.) ― -b5- استمات (assumed tropical:) He (a man, TA.) tried every way, or did his utmost, in seeking a thing. (IAar, K.) ― -b6- استمات, inf. n. اـِستِمَاتٌ, (occurring thus with the final ة elided, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He (a man, and a camel, IAar,) became fat after having been emaciated, (IAar, K.) ― -b7- استمات (tropical:) It (a thing) became relaxed, loose, or flabby. (A.) ― -b8- استمات لِينًا (assumed tropical:) It attained the utmost degree of softness: said of a fine skin, that is likened to the thin pellicle that adheres to the white of an egg: and of other things, as also استمات فِى اللِّينِ: and in like manner, فِى الصَّلَابَةِ, in hardness. (TA.) See مُسْتَمِيتٌ ― -b9- And see 1.

Derived headwords

استماتverb
  1. 1.
اـِسْتَمِيتُوا صَيْدَكُمْ
استمات لِينًا
استمات فِى
فِى الصَّلَابَةِ