طحح

Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with the concepts of spreading, flattening, and crushing or breaking things. It also extends to meanings related to friction, scattering, and specific physical attributes like the sole of a hoof or a lion's name.

Derived headwords

الطَّحُّnoun

1.
spreadingboth
The act of spreading something out or making it flat.
2.
frictionclassical
The act of rubbing or scraping something with one's heel, or placing the heel on something and scraping it.

طَحَاverb

1.
to spreadboth
To spread something out or flatten it.

انْطَحَverb

1.
to spread outboth
To become spread out or flattened.

مُنْبَسِطًاadjective

1.
spread outboth
Describing something that is spread out or extended.

طَحَّانnoun

1.
scrapingclassical
A masdar (verbal noun) indicating the act of scraping, derived from the root and likened to the pattern 'fa'laan'.

طَحْطَحَverb

1.
to breakclassical
To break something, causing destruction.
2.
to scatterclassical
To scatter something, causing destruction.
3.
to disperseclassical
To disperse people, causing destruction.
4.
to laugh heartilyclassical
To laugh with a low, rumbling sound, similar to other onomatopoeic words for laughter.

طَحْطَحَةnoun

1.
scatteringclassical
The act of scattering something destructively.
2.
dispersionclassical
The act of dispersing people destructively.
3.
nothingclassical
Used in a negative construction to mean 'nothing at all'.
4.
hairclassical
Referring to hair on one's head.

طَحْطَاحًاnoun

1.
dispersionclassical
The act of dispersing people destructively.

أَطَحَّهُverb

1.
to make it fallclassical
To cause something to fall or to throw it down.

الطَّحْطَاحnoun

1.
lionclassical
A name for a lion, possibly derived from the root's sense of crushing or power.

الطَّحْحnoun

1.
scrapersclassical
Those who scrape or rub things, possibly with their heels.

انْطَحَverb

1.
to spread outboth
To become spread out or flattened.

وقد طحه طحا وانطح الشيء انبسط — And it spread it out, and the thing spread out.

المِطَحَّةnoun

1.
back of hoofclassical
The rear part of a goat's hoof.
2.
hoof padclassical
A fleshy part resembling a saddle-bow on the leg, with which it scrapes the ground.

Parallel reading

الطَّحُّ: البسط

Al-tahhu: spreading.

طَحَا: إذا بسطه

Taha: if he spread it out.

فَانْطَحْ. قال: قد ركبت منبسطا تحسبه تحت الملحا

So it spread out. He said: I rode something spread out, you would think it was under the salt flats.

والطَّحُّ: (أن تسحج الشيء بعقبك)، أو أن تضع عقبك على شيء ثم تسحجه.

And al-tahhu: (that you scrape something with your heel), or that you place your heel on something then scrape it.

قال الكسائي: طَحَّان: فعلان من الطَّح، ملحق بباب فهلان وفعلى، وهو السحج.

Al-Kisa'i said: Tahan: a fa'laan pattern from al-tahhu, attached to the باب of fahlaan and fa'laa, and it is scraping.

وطَحْطَحَ الشيء، إذا كسره إهلاكا.

And tahthaha the thing, if he broke it destructively.

وطَحْطَحَهُ: إذا فرقه.

And tahthahahu: if he scattered it.

قال الليث: الطَّحْطَحَة: تفريق الشيء إهلاكا، وأنشد: فيمسي نابذا سلطان قسر كضوء الشمس طحطحه الغروب

Al-Layth said: Al-tahthaha: scattering something destructively, and he recited: So it becomes casting off the power of the strong like the light of the sun, the setting sun scattering it.

ويروى: طخطخه، بالخاء.

And it is narrated: takhtakhahu, with a kha.

وطحطح بهم طحطحة وطحطاحا، بكسر الطاء، إذا بددهم إهلاكا.

And tahthahahu with them a tahthaha and tahthaha, with a kasra on the ta, if he dispersed them destructively.

يقال: طحطح في ضحكه، إذا ضحك ضحكا دونا مثل طخطخ وطهطه وكتكت وكدكد وكركر.

It is said: tahthaha in his laughter, if he laughed a low laugh like takhtakha, tahthaha, katkata, kadkada, and karkara.

وما عليه طحطحة، بالكسر، أي شيء كما تقول: طحرية؛ عن اللحياني.

And he has no tahthaha, with a kasra, meaning anything, as you say: tahriyya; from Al-Lihyani.

أبو ما على رأسه طحطحة، أي شعر؛ عن أبي زيد.

Abu Zayd said: He has no tahthaha on his head, meaning hair.

وأَطَحَّهُ، بتشديد الطاء: أسقطه ورماه.

And atthaahu, with a shadda on the ta: he made it fall and threw it.

والطَّحْطَاح: الأسد، من ذلك.

And al-tahthah: the lion, from this.

والطَّحْح، بضمتين: المساحج؛ عن ابن الأعرابي.

And al-tahhu, with two damma: the scrapers; from Ibn Al-A'rabi.

وانْطَحَ الشيء: انبسط.

And the thing became spread out: it spread out.

وقد طحه طحا.

And he spread it out, it spread out.

والمِطَحَّة، كمذبة: مؤخر ظلف الشاة، عن ابن الأعرابي.

And al-mitahha, like midhabba: the back of the goat's hoof, from Ibn Al-A'rabi.

أو هي هنعة كالفلكة في رجلها تسحج بها الأرض، قاله أحمد بن يحيى؛ كذا في (اللسان).

Or it is a fleshy part like a saddle-bow on its leg with which it scrapes the ground, said Ahmad bin Yahya; thus in (Al-Lisan).