ghuthūtha

thinness

غُثُوثَة

Word

Noun · pattern فُعُولَة

Root

غ ث ث

From the same root

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • غَثَّ Form I It was, or became, lean, or meagre
    , aor. ; and غَثَّ, (originally غَثِثَ, TA) aor. ; (S, O, K;) said of flesh-meat; (S, O;) and غَثَّت; said of a شَاة [i. e. sheep or goat]; (S, O, Msb;) inf. n. غَثَاثَةٌ and غُثُوثَةٌ, (S, O, K,) or غَثٌّ; (Msb;) and ↓ اغثّ, (K,) or اغثّت, (S, O,) or both; (TA;) It was, or became, lean, or meagre: (S, O, K:) or غَثَّت, said of a شاة, it was, or became, weak. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence the saying,] غَثَّ الحَدِيثُ (tropical:) The talk, or discourse, was, or became, [meagre, or] bad, or corrupt; (S, A, O, K;) as also ↓ اغثّ. (S, K.) [See غَثٌّ.] ― -b3- And لَا يَغِثُّ عَلَيْهِ شَيأٌْ (assumed tropical:) [Nothing is bad in his opinion; so that] he does not say of anything that it is bad, and therefore leave it. (S, K.) And مَا يَغِثُّ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ (assumed tropical:) [No one is to be disregarded in his opinion; so that] he does not leave any one unasked by him. (T, A, O, K.) And غَثَّتْ عَلَيْنَا مَكَّةُ فَلَا بُدَّ لَنَا مِنْ خُرُوجٍ (assumed tropical:) [Mekkeh has become unpleasing (as though insipid) to us, so that there is for us no avoiding going forth]. (A.) ― -b4- And غَثَّ, (S, O, K,) aor. , inf. n. غَثٌّ and غَثِيثٌ, (S, O,) is said of a wound, meaning It flowed with thick purulent matter, as also ↓ اغثّ, (S, O, K,) and with dead flesh. (S and O in explanation of the former verb.)
  • غثّثت الإِبِلُ Form II The camels became fat
    , (El-Umawee, O, TA,) inf. n. تَغْثِيثٌ, (El-Umawee, O, K,) The camels became fat (El-Umawee, O, K, TA) by little and little: (O, K, TA:) [or became somewhat fat; for] one says, غَثَّ بَعِيرِى ثُمَّ غَثَّثَ My camel became lean; then he became somewhat fat. (A, TA.)
  • أَغْثَ3َ Form IV was meagre in his diction
    see 1, in three places. ― -b2- You say also, اغثّ فِى مَنْطِقِهِ (tropical:) He [was meagre in his diction; or] spoke badly, or corruptly. (S, TA.) And اغثّ فِى كَلَامِهِ (assumed tropical:) He said that in which was no good. (A, Msb.) -A2- And اغثّ اللَّحْمَ He bought the flesh-meat lean. (S, O.)
  • أَتَغَثَّثُ مَا أَنَا عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى أَتَسَمَّنَ Form V I do what is of an inferior kind that I may find much
    means (assumed tropical:) I do what is of an inferior kind that I may find much; as also ↓ أَسْتَغِثُّهُ: (A, TA:) or أَتَغَثَّثُ حَتَّى أَسْتَسْمِنَ, meaning (assumed tropical:) I deem my doing to be little that I may obtain thereby much recompense. (O.)
  • اغتثّت الخَيْلُ Form VIII The horses found, or lighted upon, somewhat of the
    (as also اغتفّت and اغتبّت, O) The horses found, or lighted upon, somewhat of the [herbage called] رَبِيع, (O, K, TA,) and became fat in consequence thereof after having been lean. (TA.)
  • استغثّ الجُرْحَ Form X He extracted from the wound the thick purulent matter therein
    He extracted from the wound the thick purulent matter therein, (S, K,) and the dead flesh, and treated it curatively. (S.) -A2- See also 5.
  • غَثْغَثَ He remained, stayed, dwelt, or abode
    , (O,) inf. n. غَثْغَثَةٌ, (K,) He remained, stayed, dwelt, or abode, (O, K,) in a place. (O.) -A2- [And it seems to signify also He washed clothes without an implement of the kind called مِقْصَرَة (q. v.): for ― -b2- ] غَثْغَثَةٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) Weak fighting, without a weapon: (O, K:) likened to the غَثْغَثَة of the garment, or piece of cloth, [which is] when it is washed with the hands [app. meaning with the hands only]. (O.)
  • غَثٌّ Lean, or meagre
    Lean, or meagre; (S, A, O, K;) as also ↓ غَثِيثٌ; (S, O, K;) both applied to flesh-meat; and the former, with ة, to a شَاة [i. e. sheep or goat]: (S, O:) pl. غِثَاثٌ. (MA.) ― -b2- Hence, i. e. as being likened to flesh-meat thus termed, كَلَامٌ غَثٌّ (assumed tropical:) Speech, or language, that is [meagre,] without grace, or beauty. (Ham p. 757.) One says, فِى الكَلَامِ الغَثُّ وَالسَّمِينُ (assumed tropical:) [In speech, or the speech, is what is meagre and what is vigorous; or] what is good and what is bad [or rather what is bad and what is good]. (Msb.) And حَدِيثُكُمْ غَثٌّ وَسِلَاحُكُمْ رَثٌّ (assumed tropical:) [Your talk, or discourse, is meagre, or bad, and your weapons are old and worn out]. (A.) And قَوْمٌ غَثَثَةٌ (assumed tropical:) [A people, or party, meagre, or bad, in speech: غَثَثَةٌ being pl. of غَثٌّ, like as بَرَرَةٌ is of بَرٌّ]. (A. [The meaning that I have given is there indicated by the context.])
  • غُثَّةٌ A lean, or meagre
    A lean, or meagre, شَاة [i. e. sheep or goat]. (TA.) [See also غَثٌّ.] -A2- And A sufficiency of the means of subsistence: (O, K:) like غُفَّةٌ and غُبَّةٌ. (O.)
  • الغَثِثُ The lion
    and ↓ الغُثَاغِثُ The lion. (O, K.)
  • غَثَاثٌ Leanness, or meagreness
    [if not a mistranscription for the inf. n. غَثَاثَةٌ] Leanness, or meagreness, of a camel [&c.]. (A, TA.)
  • غَثِيثٌ Open entry
    : see غَثٌّ: -A2- and see what here follows.

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