غيط

Root entry · 16 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of entering into something, sinking into it, or being deep within it. It extends to describe low-lying, expansive areas of land, often associated with places of seclusion or natural depressions. Figuratively, it can refer to the act of defecation and the place where it occurs.

Derived headwords

غاطَverb

1.
to enter intoboth
To go into something, to penetrate it.
2.
to sink intoboth
To be submerged or deeply embedded in something, like sand.
3.
to disappear intoboth
To go into a valley or body of water and become hidden.

غاط في الشيء يغوط — He entered into the thing.

تغوط فيه الأقدام — The feet sank into it.

غاط الرجل في الوادي يغوط — The man disappeared into the valley.

غاط فلان في الماء يغوط — So-and-so submerged himself in the water.

غَاطَverb

1.
to defecateclassical
A euphemism for the act of defecation.

ضرب فلان الغائط — So-and-so defecated.

غَوَّطَverb

1.
to deepen a wellclassical
To make the bottom of a well more distant or deeper.

أغوط بئرك — Deepen your well.

تَغَوَّطَverb

1.
to take a large biteclassical
To take a large mouthful, especially of tharid (a type of bread soaked in broth).
2.
to defecateclassical
A euphemism for the act of defecation.

التغويط: اللقم، من الغوط، وهو الثريد — Taghwit: mouthfuls, from al-ghawt, which is tharid.

تغوط الرجل، إذا أبدى، أي أحدث، كناية عن الخراءة — A man taghawwata, if he revealed, i.e., produced, a euphemism for defecation.

انْغَاطَverb

1.
to bend, to curveclassical
Said of a piece of wood that bends or curves.

وانغاظ العود: تثنى — And the wood inghaṭa: it bent.

تَغَاوَطَاverb

1.
to splash each otherclassical
To playfully splash water on each other, to duck and dive.

تغاوطا في الماء: تغامسا — They taghawata in the water: they splashed each other.

الغَوْطnoun

1.
low-lying areaboth
A low, wide expanse of land.
2.
a place of seclusionclassical
A place where one goes to relieve oneself, a secluded spot.
3.
a crowdclassical
A group of people, a multitude.

الغوط: المطمئن الواسع من الأرض — Al-ghawt: the low, wide expanse of land.

يقال: غط غط، إذا أمرته أن يكون مع الغاط — It is said: Ghaṭ, ghaṭ, if you order him to be with the crowd.

الغَائِطnoun

1.
low-lying groundboth
A low-lying, expansive area of land, often more sunken than al-ghawt.
2.
place of defecationclassical
A euphemism for the place where one defecates, due to the custom of seeking seclusion.
3.
fecesclassical
A euphemism for feces or excrement.

الغائط: المطمئن الواسع من الأرض — Al-ghā'iṭ: the low, wide expanse of land.

وفي الحديث: أن رجلا جاء فقال: يا رسول الله، قل لأهل الغائط يحسنوا مخالطتي — And in the hadith: A man came and said: O Messenger of Allah, tell the people of al-ghā'iṭ to treat me well.

أو جاء أحد منكم من الغائط — Or if any of you comes from al-ghā'iṭ.

غُوطnoun

1.
low-lying areaboth
A low-lying, expansive area of land.

ج: غوط، بالضم — Plural: ghūṭ, with dammah.

أَغْوَاطnoun

1.
low-lying areasboth
Plural of ghawt, referring to low-lying, expansive areas of land.

وأغواط، قال ابن بري: أغواط: جمع غوط، بالفتح — And aghwāṭ, Ibn Barrī said: aghwāṭ: plural of ghawt, with fatha.

غِيْطَانnoun

1.
low-lying areasboth
Plural of ghawt or ghā'iṭ, referring to low-lying, expansive areas of land.

وغيطان جمع له أيضا — And ghiṭān is also a plural for it.

غِيَاطnoun

1.
deep, hollow placeclassical
A deep, hollow place, often a valley or a large depression in the ground.

وغياط، بكسرهما، صارت الواو ياء لانكسار ما قبلها — And ghiyāṭ, with kasrah on both, the waw became ya because of the kasrah before it.

بعيد الجوف أغبر ذي غياط — Far in its belly, dusty, with a deep hollow.

غَوَّاطَةnoun

1.
depression in the groundclassical
A hollow or depression in the earth.

الغوطة، بالفتح: الوهدة من الأرض المطمئنة — Al-ghūṭah, with fatha: a hollow of the low-lying land.

الغُوطَةnoun

1.
Damascusclassical
The city of Damascus or its province, considered one of the paradises of the world.
2.
a fertile plainclassical
A fertile plain or garden area.

الغوطة، بالضم: مدينة دمشق، أو كورتها — Al-ghūṭah, with dammah: the city of Damascus, or its province.

أحلك الله والخليفة بال غوطة دارا بها بنو الحكم — May Allah and the Caliph make al-Ghūṭah a dwelling for you, wherein are the Banu al-Hakam.

الغَيْطnoun

1.
gardenboth
A garden or an orchard.

والغيط، بالفتح: البستان — And al-ghayṭ, with fatha: the garden.

غَوِيْطَةadjective

1.
deep-bottomedclassical
Said of a well that is deep-bottomed.

بئر غويطة، كسفينة: بعيدة القعر — A ghawīṭah well, like safīnah: far in its bottom.

Parallel reading

غاط في الشيء يغوط

He entered into the thing.

وهذا رمل تغوط فيه الأقدام

And this is sand into which the feet sank.

الغوط: المطمئن الواسع من الأرض

Al-ghawt: the low, wide expanse of land.

الغوط أشد انخفاضا من الغائط وأبعد

Al-ghawt is more sunken than al-ghā'iṭ and further away.

انسدت ينابيع الغوط الأكبر وأبواب السماء

The springs of the Great Ghawt were blocked and the gates of heaven.

يقال للأرض الواسعة الدعوة: غائط، لأنه غاط في الأرض، أي دخل فيها

A wide, expansive land is called ghā'iṭ because it sank into the earth, meaning it entered into it.

أراد أهل الوادي الذي ينزله

He meant the people of the valley where he was staying.

أغواط: جمع غوط، بالفتح، لغة في الغائط

Aghwāṭ: plural of ghawt, with fatha, a variant for al-ghā'iṭ.

وما بينها والأرض غوط نفانف

And between them and the earth is a vast, low-lying expanse.

بعيد الجوف أغبر ذي غياط

Far in its belly, dusty, with a deep hollow.

تنزل أمتي بغائط يسمونه البصرة: أي بطن مطمئن من الأرض

My Ummah will descend in a ghā'iṭ they call Basra: meaning a low-lying part of the earth.

الغائط: كناية عن العذرة نفسها لأنهم كانوا يلفونها بالغيطان

Al-ghā'iṭ: a euphemism for the excrement itself because they used to wrap it in cloths.

أو جاء أحد منكم من الغائط

Or if any of you comes from al-ghā'iṭ.

الغوطة، بالضم: مدينة دمشق، أو كورتها

Al-ghūṭah, with dammah: the city of Damascus, or its province.

أحلك الله والخليفة بال غوطة دارا بها بنو الحكم

May Allah and the Caliph make al-Ghūṭah a dwelling for you, wherein are the Banu al-Hakam.

والتغويط: اللقم، من الغوط، وهو الثريد

And taghwīṭ: mouthfuls, from al-ghawt, which is tharid.

تغوط الرجل، إذا أبدى، أي أحدث، كناية عن الخراءة

A man taghawwata, if he revealed, i.e., produced, a euphemism for defecation.

تغاوطا في الماء: تغامسا

They taghawata in the water: they splashed each other.

يقال: غط غط، إذا أمرته أن يكون مع الغاط

It is said: Ghaṭ, ghaṭ, if you order him to be with the crowd.

بئر غويطة، كسفينة: بعيدة القعر

A ghawīṭah well, like safīnah: far in its bottom.

وكل ما انحدر في الأرض فقد غاط

And everything that descends into the earth has ghāṭa.

لا يذهب الرجلان يضربان الغائط يتحدثان

Let not two men go to defecate while talking to each other.

وغاطت أنساع الناقة تغوط غوطا: لزقت ببطنها فدخلت فيه

And the camel's girths sank, ghawṭan: they stuck to her belly and entered into it.

والغيط، بالفتح: البستان

And al-ghayṭ, with fatha: the garden.