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الطح

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concepts of spreading out, flattening, and destruction. It also encompasses terms for a lion and specific anatomical parts of an animal's foot.

Derived headwords

طَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to spread outboth

    To spread out or become flat.

  2. 2.
    to rubclassical

    To rub something with one's heel.

طَحْطَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to breakclassical

    To break, scatter, disperse destructively.

  2. 2.
    to laugh lowlyclassical

    To laugh a low or subdued laugh.

طَحْطَحَةnoun
  1. 1.
    a thingclassical

    A small amount or thing, often used in negation.

  2. 2.
    poetryclassical

    Poetry, or a piece of verse.

أَطَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to dropclassical

    To cause something to fall or drop; to throw down.

طَحْطَاحnoun
  1. 1.
    lionclassical

    A name or epithet for a lion.

طَحْحnoun
  1. 1.
    rubbersclassical

    Those who rub or scrape.

اِنْطَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to spread outclassical

    To become spread out or flattened.

مَطَحَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    heel of hoofclassical

    The hind part of a goat's hoof, or a structure like a disc on its leg that scrapes the ground.

Parallel reading

البسط
Spreading out.
وأن تسحج الشيء بعقبك
And to rub the thing with your heel.
وطحطح: كسر، وفرق، وبدد إهلاكا
And طحطح means to break, scatter, and disperse destructively.
وضحك ضحكا دونا
And to laugh a low laugh.
وما عليه طحطحة، بالكسر، أي: شيء، أو شعر
And he has not a طحطحة (with kasra), meaning: a thing, or poetry.
وأطحه: أسقطه، ورماه
And أطحه means to make it fall, and to throw it.
والطحطاح: الأسد
And الطحطاح is the lion.
والطحح، بضمتين: المساحج
And الطحح (with two dammahs) means the rubbers (those who rub).
وانطح: انبسط
And انطح means to spread out.
والمطحة، كمذبة: مؤخر ظلف الشاة، أو هنة كالفلكة في رجلها تسحج بها الأرض
And المطحة (like مذبة) is the hind part of a goat's hoof, or a thing like a disc on its leg with which it scrapes the ground.