قوت

1 قَاتَ ذ , (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) aor. يَقُوتُ, (S, O, Msb,) inf. n. قَوْتٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and قُوتٌ (Sb, K) and قِيَاتَةٌ, (S, O, K,) the last originally قِوَاتَةٌ, (O,) He fed, nourished, or sustained, (S, Msb, TA,) or fed with what would sustain the body, (S, O, K, * TA,) [or with food sufficient to sustain life, ] or with a small supply of the means of subsistence, (TA,) him, (Msb, TA,) or them, (K, TA,) or his family; (S, O;) he gave him [or them] what is termed قُوت [q. v.]: (Msb:) and ↓ اقاتهُ signifies [in like manner] he gave him his قُوت. (TA.) It is said in a trad., كَفَى بِالمَرْءِ اـِثْمًا أَنْ يُضَيِّعَ مَنْ يَقُوتُ i. e. [ It suffices the man as a sin, or crime, that he destroy ] him whom he is bound to sustain, of his family and household and slaves: or, as some relate it, ↓ مَنْ يُقِيتُهُ; using a dial. var. [of يقوت]. (TA.) [And لَهُ ↓ اقتات app. signifies, primarily, He supplied to him food. (See this verb below, near the end of the paragraph.)] -A2- And قَاتَ and ↓ قوّت and ↓ اقات and ↓ أَقْوَتَ [sometimes] signify He straitened his household, by reason of niggardliness or poverty. (TA in art. زنق.) -A3- قُوتُوا طَعَامَكُمْ يُبَارِكْ لَكُمْ فِيهِ, a trad., thus related by some, by others ↓ قُوِّتُوا, [loosely expl. in the TA,] means, accord. to some, Measure ye your corn, [and] He will bless you in it: or, accord. to others, make ye small round cakes (أَقْرَاص) of your corn, &c. (El-Jámi' es-Sagheer, and scholia thereon.) -A4- See also 8, in the middle of the paragraph.