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زرط

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the act of swallowing, particularly food or drink. It can also refer to a specific pronunciation or variant of another word.

Derived headwords

زَرِطَverb
  1. 1.
    to swallowboth

    To cause food or drink to pass down the throat into the stomach.

يَزْرِطُverb
  1. 1.
    swallowsboth

    Present tense of the verb 'to swallow'.

زَرَطnoun
  1. 1.
    swallowingclassical

    The act of swallowing.

الزِّرَاطnoun
  1. 1.
    the roadclassical

    A variant pronunciation or reading of the word 'al-sirat' (the road, the path).

Parallel reading

زرط اللقمة يزرطها
He swallowed the morsel, he swallows it.
ابتُلِعَتْ
It was swallowed.
والزراط: لغة في السراط
And al-zirat: a dialectal variant for al-sirat.