سكت

سَكْتَةٌ ذ A single state of silence, muteness, or speechlessness. (Msb.) One says, لِلْجُبْلَى صَرْخَةٌ ثُمَّ سَكْتَةٌ [ To the pregnant woman is attributable a vehement cry, then a silence ]. (A, TA.) ― -b2- In prayer, A silence [or pause ] after the commencement; [i. e. after what precedes the first recitation of the Opening Chapter of the Kur-án; ] which is approved: and, in like manner, after the ending of the recitation of the Opening Chapter of the Kur-án. (T, TA.) ― -b3- See also سَكْتٌ. ― -b4- Also A certain disease [ by which a person loses his powers of speech and motion ], (S, K, TA,) well known among the physicians; (TA;) [i. e. apoplexy; thus called in the present day:] accord. to some, the word in this sense should be written ↓ سِكْتَةٌ, because it denotes a mode [ of silence or stillness ]; but this is incorrect, being at variance with the authority of transmission. (TA.) ― -b5- See also the next paragraph: -A2- and see سِكِّيتٌ.