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القلت

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of scarcity, deficiency, and destruction. It describes physical attributes like thinness or a hollow in a mountain, as well as abstract notions of perishing and infertility.

Derived headwords

القَلْتnoun
  1. 1.
    hollow in a mountainboth

    A depression or hollow found within a mountain.

  2. 2.
    scanty fleshboth

    Referring to a body that is thin or has little flesh, similar to a shoulder blade.

قَلَتَverb
  1. 1.
    to perishclassical

    To be destroyed or to perish.

المَقْلَتَةnoun
  1. 1.
    place of destructionclassical

    A place or cause of destruction or perishing.

المِقْلاتnoun
  1. 1.
    infertile female camelclassical

    A female camel that gives birth to a single offspring and then does not conceive again.

  2. 2.
    woman with no surviving childrenclassical

    A woman whose children do not survive.

أَقَلَّتَتْverb
  1. 1.
    to be infertileclassical

    The state of a woman not having children survive.

قُلْتَةnoun
  1. 1.
    thin-milked sheepclassical

    A sheep that does not produce sweet milk.

القُلَّتَيْنname
  1. 1.
    Al-Qaltain (place name)both

    A place name, referring to a location in Yamama, analogous to 'the two seas'.

دارة القُلَّتَيْنname
  1. 1.
    Dar al-Qaltainboth

    A specific location named Dar al-Qaltain.

قُلْتَةname
  1. 1.
    Qultah (place name)both

    A place name, referring to a location in Egypt.

أَقْلَتَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to cause to perishclassical

    To cause something or someone to be destroyed or perish.

  2. 2.
    to expose to destructionclassical

    To expose something or someone to the risk of destruction.

Parallel reading

النقرة في الجبل
A hollow in the mountain.
والقليل اللحم، كالقلت، كالكتف
And scanty flesh, like the Qalt, like the shoulder blade.
وبالتحريك: الهلاك
And with vowel movement: destruction.
قلت، كفرح
Qalata, like faraha (meaning to perish).
والمقلتة: المهلكة
And al-Maqlatah: the place of destruction.
والمقلات: ناقة تضع واحدا ثم لا تحمل، وامرأة لا يعيش لها ولد، وقد أقلتت
And al-Miqlat: a she-camel that gives birth to one then does not conceive, and a woman whose child does not survive, and she has become miqlatan.
وشاة قلتة: ليست بحلوة اللبن
And a sheep Qultah: not sweet in milk.
والقلتين، كالبحرين: ة باليمامة
And al-Qaltain, like the two seas: a place in Yamama.
دارة القلتين: ع
Dar al-Qaltain: a spring.
وقلتة، بالضم: ة بمصر
And Qultah, with damma: a place in Egypt.
وأقلته: أهلكه، أو عرضه للهلاك
And he made it perish: he destroyed it, or exposed it to destruction.