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لطع

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns actions related to licking or consuming, and also describes physical actions like kicking and specific physical characteristics such as white patches on the lips or tooth decay.

Derived headwords

لَطَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to lickboth

    To lick something, similar to the act of licking with the tongue.

  2. 2.
    to kickclassical

    To strike the rear of a person with one's foot.

لَطْعnoun
  1. 1.
    lickingboth

    The act of licking.

  2. 2.
    kickingclassical

    The act of striking someone's rear with one's foot.

التَّطْعnoun
  1. 1.
    drinking completelyclassical

    To drink all of the liquid in a container or basin, as if licking it dry.

لَطْعnoun
  1. 1.
    white patch on lipboth

    A white discoloration on the inner part of the lip, often seen in dark-skinned people.

لَطْعnoun
  1. 1.
    tooth decayclassical

    The shedding of teeth, leaving only the sockets.

أَلْطَعadjective
  1. 1.
    having tooth decayclassical

    Describing a man who has experienced the shedding of his teeth.

لَطْعَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    having tooth decayclassical

    Describing a woman who has experienced the shedding of her teeth.

  2. 2.
    small vulvaclassical

    Describing a woman with a small or narrow vulva, lacking much flesh.

Parallel reading

اللطع: اللحس.
Al-lat'u: Licking.
واللطع أيضا: أن تضرب مؤخر إنسان برجلك.
And al-lat'u also: is to strike the rear of a person with your leg.
تقول منهما جميعا: لطعته بالكسر ألطعه لطعا.
You say from both of them: I kicked him (lat'tuhu) with a kasra, I kick him (altahu'uhu) a kicking (lat'an).
والتطع: شرب جميع ما في الإناء أو الحوض، كأنه لحسه.
And al-taṭ'u: is drinking all that is in the vessel or basin, as if one licked it.
واللطع بالتحريك: بياض في باطن الشفة، وأكثر ما يعتري ذلك السودان.
And al-laṭ'u (with haraka): is a whiteness on the inside of the lip, and most often this afflicts black people.
واللطع أيضا: تحات الأسنان إلا أسناخها.
And al-laṭ'u also: is the shedding of teeth except their sockets.
رجل ألطع وامرأة لطعاء.
A man (who has lost teeth) alṭa'u and a woman laṭ'ā'u.
عجيز لطعاء دردبيس
A posterior, toothless, and large-bodied (woman).
واللطعاء: أيضا القليلة لحم الفرج، ذكره ابن دريد.
And al-laṭ'ā'u: is also one with little flesh of the vulva, Ibn Duraid mentioned it.