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ق ل ط ف

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to concepts of lightness, agility, and perhaps smallness, possibly extending to personal names derived from these qualities.

Derived headwords

قَلْطَفname
  1. 1.
    a man's nameclassical

    A proper name for a man, specifically referring to Ibn Sa'tara al-Ta'i, known as one of the Arab rulers and soothsayers.

القَلْطَفَةnoun
  1. 1.
    lightness in small bodyclassical

    A quality of being light and agile, particularly in conjunction with a small physique. This is the characteristic from which the man's name was derived.

Parallel reading

قلطف، كزبرج أهمله الجوهري وصاحب اللسان، وقال الصاغاني: هو ابن صعترة الطائي، أحد حكام العرب وكهانهم كما في العباب.
Qalṭaf, like Zubruj, was neglected by Al-Jawhari and the author of Al-Lisan. Al-Saghani said: He is Ibn Sa'tara al-Ta'i, one of the Arab rulers and soothsayers, as mentioned in Al-'Ubab.
والقلطفة: الخفة في صغر جسم وبه سمي الرجل.
And Al-Qalṭafah: lightness in a small body, and by it the man was named.