spread out, flatten

, (S, K,) aor. , (K,) inf. n. فَطْحٌ; (S;) and ↓ فطّحهُ, (S, * K,) inf. n. تَفْطِيحٌ; (S;) He made it broad, or wide. (S, K.) ― -b2- And فَطَحَ العُودَ وَغَيْرَهُ, (K, TA,) inf. n. as above; and ↓ فطّحهُ, inf. n. as above; (TA;) He pared, or fashioned by cutting, the stick, or piece of wood, &c., and made it broad, or wide. (K, TA.) And فَطَحَ الحَدِيْدَةَ, and ↓ فطّحها, He made the piece of iron broad, or wide, and even, or flat, for a مِسْحَاة, or a مِعْزَق, or some other thing. (L.) ― -b3- And فَطَحَ بِالعَصَاظَهْرَهُ, (K, * TA,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) He struck his back with the staff, or stick. (K, * TA.) ― -b4- And فَطَحَتْ بِالوَلَدِ, said of a woman, i. q. رَمَتْ بِهِ [She cast forth the child, or the fœtus]. (K, TA.) [Compare طَفَحَتْ.] -A2- فَطِحَ, aor. , inf. n. فَطَحٌ, [app., He (a man) had a broad, or wide, head: (see أَفْطَحُ:) or it signifies, or signifies likewise, and so app. ↓ فُطِّحَ, inf. n. تفْطِيحٌ, (see فَطَحٌ below, and أَفْطَحُ,)] said of the head, and of the end of the nose, It was, or became, broad, or wide. (TK.) -A3- فَطِحَ النَّخْلُ The palm-trees became fecundated. (Kr, K.)

see the preceding paragraph, in four places.

[inf. n. of فَطِحَ, q. v.: and, as a simple subst.,] Breadth, or width, of the head, (S, K, TA,) in the middle; as also تَفْطِيحٌ: (TA:) and breadth, or width, of the end of the nose, (L, K,) so that it sticks close to the face; as in the bull, which is termed أَفْطَحُ. (L.)

A she-camel bulky in the belly, (K, TA,) broad, or wide, in the ribs. (TA.)

A man having a broad, or wide, head. (S.) And A broad, or wide, head; (A, L;) as also ↓ مُفَطَّحٌ (S, A, L) and ↓ مَفْطُوحٌ. (A.) And أَرْنَبَةٌ فَطْحَآءُ A broad, or wide, end of a nose: (A, L:) and so قَدَمٌ [i. e. foot]. (A.) ― -b2- الأَفْطَحُ The bull: so called because of the breadth of the end of his nose: (L, K:) an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (L.) ― -b3- And The chameleon (K, TA) whose back and colour the sun makes to glisten so that it becomes white by reason of the heat thereof. (TA.) ― -b4- And الفَطْحَآءُ The broad, or wide, part of a bow. (L.) -A2- Also i. q. أَفْدَعُ [q. v.]. (K.)

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