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فسط

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to tents, dwellings, and specific small objects. It encompasses terms for tents, cities, and even small, insignificant items like the tip of a date or a fingernail clipping.

Derived headwords

الفُسْطَاطnoun
  1. 1.
    a tent made of hairboth

    a tent made of hair

فُسْطَاطnoun
  1. 1.
    tentboth

    A dwelling made of hair or woven material.

فِسْطَاطnoun
  1. 1.
    tentboth

    A dwelling made of hair or woven material.

فِسَاطnoun
  1. 1.
    tentboth

    A dwelling made of hair or woven material.

الفُسَيْطnoun
  1. 1.
    tip of a dateclassical

    The small, pointed end of a date fruit.

  2. 2.
    fingernail clippingclassical

    A small piece trimmed from a fingernail.

Parallel reading

بيت من شعر
A tent made of hair.
وفيه ثلاث لغات: فسطاط وفستاط وفساط
And it has three pronunciations: fustāṭ, fustāṭ, and fisāṭ.
وكسر الفاء لغة فيهن
And the kasra on the fa' is a pronunciation for them all.
وفسطاط: مدينة مصر
And Fustat: the city of Egypt.
والفسيط: ثفروق التمرة
And al-fusayṭ: the tip of the date.
وقلامة الظفر
And a fingernail clipping.
قال الشاعر (2) يصف الهلال: كأن ابن مزنتها جانحا * فسيط لدى الافق من خنصر
A poet said (2), describing the crescent moon: As if the son of its rain cloud, leaning, * was a tiny bit at the horizon, like a little finger.