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قَتَّاتٌ ذ (S, M, A, O, K) and ↓ قَتُوتٌ and ↓ قِتِّيتَى, (M, K,) this last being used as an inf. n. and as an epithet, (TA,) A man wont to calumniate; or to make known, divulge, or tell, discourse, or conversation, in a malicious, or mischievous, manner, so as to occasion discord, dissension, or the like; (S, * M, * A, * O, * K, * TA;) [or wont to falsify and embellish discourse, or conversation: (see 1:)] or who listens to the discourse, or conversation, of others, without their knowing; (M, K, TA;) whether he make it known in the manner explained above, or not: (M, * K, * TA:) or قَتَّاتٌ, accord. to Khálid Ibn-Jembeh, signifies one who hears the discourses, or conversations, of men, and informs their enemies: or, as some say, one who is with a people, or party, and calumniates them: (TA:) it is said in a trad. (S, O) of the Prophet (O) that the قَتَّات will not enter Paradise: (S, O:) the epithets قَتَّاتَةٌ and ↓ فَتُوتٌ are applied to a woman: (M, TA:) and the pl. of قَتَّاتٌ is قُتَّاتٌ, with damm. (TA.)