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حلط

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns intense emotions like anger and annoyance, often associated with strong oaths or stubbornness. It also touches upon concepts of weight, burden, and separation.

Derived headwords

الاحتلاطnoun
  1. 1.
    Anger and annoyanceclassical

    Intense anger and vexation, often leading to impatience.

احلطverb
  1. 1.
    To exert oneself in an oathclassical

    To exert oneself or be strenuous in taking an oath, implying great effort or insistence.

لطاتهnoun
  1. 1.
    His heavinessclassical

    Referring to the weight or burden of a person or thing.

Parallel reading

إن أول العي الاحتلاط، وأسوأ القول الافراط
Indeed, the beginning of inability is anger, and the worst of speech is excess.
وأحلط الرجل في اليمين، إذا اجتهد
And the man exerted himself in the oath, if he was strenuous.
وكنا وهم كابنى سبات تفرقا
And we and they were like two sons of time who separated.
سو ى ثم كانا منجدا وتهاميا
Together, then they became one from Najd and one from Tihamah.
فألقى التهامى منهما بلطاته
Then the one from Tihamah cast upon them his burdens.
وأحلط هذا لا أريم مكانيا
And this one became stubborn, I will not move from my place.
يقول: إذا كانت هذه حالهما فلا يجتمعان أبدا
He says: If this is their condition, they will never meet.
والسبات: الدهر
And al-subāt: time/eternity.