لحت

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

The root لحت primarily denotes the act of scraping, peeling, or stripping something away. It can also extend to meanings of striking, particularly with a stick, and metaphorically to stripping someone of their possessions or to being genuinely and purely of something.

Derived headwords

لَحَتَهُ بِالعَصَاverb

1.
to strike him with a stickboth
To hit someone with a stick.

لَحْتًاnoun

1.
strikingclassical
The act of striking, particularly with a stick.
2.
scrapingclassical
The act of scraping or peeling.

لَحَتَ العَصَاverb

1.
to scrape/peel the stickboth
To scrape or peel the surface of a stick.

لَحْتًاnoun

1.
scraping, peelingboth
The act of scraping or peeling something, like bark or a surface.

نَحْتًا وَلَحْتًاnoun

1.
scraping and peelingclassical
A phrase indicating thorough scraping or peeling, often used metaphorically.

لَحَتَهُ بِالعَذْلِverb

1.
to reproach himclassical
To criticize or reproach someone severely.

لَحَتَverb

1.
to strip him of possessionsclassical
To take everything someone has, leaving them with nothing.

اللَّحْتnoun

1.
peeling, scrapingboth
The act or result of peeling or scraping.

اللَّتْحnoun

1.
peeling, scrapingclassical
An alternative form or inversion of اللحت, meaning peeling or scraping.

بُحْت لَحْتadjective

1.
pure, genuineclassical
Describing something as completely pure, genuine, or true; an emphatic adjective.

Parallel reading

لحته بالعصا، كمنعه، لحتاً: ضربه بها.

He struck him with the stick, like preventing him, a striking: he hit him with it.

ولحت العصا لحتاً: بشرها وقشرها، كنحتها، عن ابن الأعرابي.

And he scraped the stick, a scraping: he stripped its bark and peeled it, like carving it, according to Ibn al-A'rabi.

هاذا رجل لا يضيرك عليه نحتا ولحتا، أي ما يزيدك عليه نحتا للشعر، ولحتا له.

This is a man whom you cannot harm with him, neither by carving nor by scraping, meaning he does not increase in you carving of poetry, nor scraping for him.

ولحته بالعذل لحتاً، مثله.

And he reproached him with blame, a reproaching, similar to it.

إن هذا الأمر لا يزال فيكم، وأنتم ولاته ما لم تحدثوا أعمالا، فإذا فعلتم كذا بعث الله عليكم شر خلقه، فلحتوكم كما يلحت القضيب.

This matter will remain among you, and you will be its custodians as long as you do not commit evil deeds. If you do so, God will send upon you the worst of His creation, and they will strip you bare like a twig is peeled.

اللحت: القشر.

Al-Laht: the peel.

ولحته، إذا أخذ ما عنده ولم يدع له شيئا.

And he stripped him, if he took what he had and left him nothing.

واللحت واللتح واحد، مقلوب، وفي رواية فالتحوكم.

And al-Laht and al-Lahtah are one, inverted, and in one narration 'they will strip you'.

برد بحت لحت أي صادق.

A pure, genuine cold, meaning sincere.