Root

ط ه ه

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 4 entries
  • طَهْطَهَ He laughed immoderately
    He laughed immoderately: (L voce كَدْكَدَ:) or you say طَهْطَهَ فِى ضَحِكِهِ, meaning he laughed slightly; like طَحْطَحَ. (O and TA in art. طح.)
  • طَهْ Be thou still
    [at the commencement of the 20th chapter of the Kur-án] means اِطْمَيأِنّ [Be thou still, &c.]: (K, TA:) and thus it is expl. as occurring in a trad. respecting Moses' hearing the speech of the Lord of Might: (TA:) or, as some say, it is for طَأْ [imperative of وَطِيأَ], meaning tread upon the ground with the soles of both thy feet; because the Prophet raised one of his feet in prayer: (TA in art. وطأ:) or it means O man, in the Abyssinian language; (Lth, K, TA;) or so in Syriac, accord. to Katádeh; or so in Nabathæan, accord. to other authorities: (TA:) read طٰهٰ, with the two fet-hahs pronounced fully, it is two letters of the alphabet (مِنَ الهِجَآءِ [strangely misunderstood by Freytag as meaning “ quibus maledicitur ”]): (Lth, K, TA:) Ibn-Mes'ood is related to have read طِهِ, with the two kesrehs pronounced fully: and Fr says that some divided it, reading طِ هِ: (TA:) Abu-n-Nejm has called it طَهَا. (TA in art. طهو, q. v.)
  • طَهْطَهَةٌ voices
    sing. of طَهَاطِهُ, (TA,) which signifies The voices [or neighings] of horses. (K, TA.)
  • طَهْطَاهٌ That excites admiration by his beauty, or swift and excellent; youthful
    , as an epithet applied to a horse, That excites admiration by his beauty, or swift and excellent; youthful; excelling in beauty. (Lth, L, K, TA.)

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