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سقط
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaسَقْطَةٌ ذ [ A fall: or] a violent fall. (M, TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A slip, lapse, fault, or wrong action; as also ↓ سِقَاطٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ سَقْطٌ; which last is also used in a pl. sense: (TA:) or the second (سقاط) is pl. of سَقْطَةٌ: (Msb, K:) as sing., it is an inf. n. of سَاقَطَ: (TA:) and سَقْطَةٌ also signifies a bad word or saying, that swerves from rectitude: (TA in art. عور:) its pl., or one of its pls., is سَقَطَاتٌ. (TA.) You say, لَايَخْلُو أَحَدٌ مِنْ سَقْطَةٍ (tropical:) [ No one will be free from a slip ]. (TA.) And الكَامِلُ مَنْ عُدَّتْ سَقَطَاتُهُ (tropical:) [ The perfect is he whose slips are so few that they may be counted ]. (TA.)
Derived headwords
سَقْطَةٌ
- 1.
لَايَخْلُو أَحَدٌ مِنْ
الكَامِلُ مَنْ عُدَّتْ سَقَطَاتُهُ