سقط

6 تساقط ذ : see its variation اِسَّاقَطَ in 1; first sentence. ― -b2- It fell in consecutive portions or quantities [like the leaves of a tree, &c.; by degrees; gradually ]. (M, K.) A poet says, كَنَجْمِ الثُّرَيَّا وَأَمْطَارِهَا وَيَوْمٍ تَسَاقَطُ لَذَّاتُهُ i. e. (assumed tropical:) [ Many a day ] of which the pleasures come one thing after another; [such a day being like the asterism of the Pleiades, and the pleasures thereof like its rains; ] meaning the abounding of its pleasures. (TA.) And you say, تَسَاقَطَ اـِلَىَّ خَيْرُ فُلَانٍ (tropical:) [ The wealth of such a one fell, or came, to me, one thing after another ]. (TA.) ― -b3- تساقط عَلَى الشَّىٌءِ He threw himself upon the thing. (S.) You say, تساقط عَلَى الرَّجُلِ يَقِيه بِنَفْسِهِ [ He threw himself upon the man, protecting him with his own person ]. (TA.)