falṭaḥa

broaden, flatten

فَلْطَحَ

Word

Verb

Root

ف ل ط ح

Forms

Present: يُفَلْطِحُ

Conjugation

Person	Past	Present	Command
he هُوَ	فَلْطَحَ	يُفَلْطِحُ	—
she هِيَ	فَلْطَحَت	تُفَلْطِحُ	—
they two (m.) هُما	فَلْطَحا	يُفَلْطِحانِ	—
they two (f.) هُما	فَلْطَحَتا	تُفَلْطِحانِ	—
they (m.) هُمْ	فَلْطَحُوا	يُفَلْطِحُونَ	—
they (f.) هُنَّ	فَلْطَحْنَ	يُفَلْطِحْنَ	—
you (m.) أَنْتَ	فَلْطَحْتَ	تُفَلْطِحُ	فَلْطِحْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ	فَلْطَحْتِ	تُفَلْطِحِينَ	فَلْطِحِي
you two أَنْتُما	فَلْطَحْتُما	تُفَلْطِحانِ	فَلْطِحَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ	فَلْطَحْتُم	تُفَلْطِحُونَ	فَلْطِحُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ	فَلْطَحْتُنَّ	تُفَلْطِحْنَ	فَلْطِحْنَ
I أَنا	فَلْطَحْتُ	أُفَلْطِحُ	—
we نَحْنُ	فَلْطَحْنا	نُفَلْطِحُ	—

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 3 entries

فَلْطَحَ He expanded, and made broad, or wide

He expanded, and made broad, or wide, a round cake of bread; (K, TA;) as also فَرْطَحَ; both mentioned by Abu-l-Faraj: [see art. فرطح: both are app. correct; but the former seems to be the more approved:] and he made broad, or wide, anything. (TA.)
فِلْطَاحٌ Open entry

: see the following paragraph.
مُفَلْطَحٌ expanded, and made broad

A cake of bread [expanded, and made broad, or] wide: (IAar, TA.) and a thing [of any kind (see the verb)] having breadth and width. (TA.) حَسَكَةٌ مُفَلْطَحَةٌ occurs in a trad. [meaning A broad, or wide, head of a thistle or the like]. (TA.) And رَأْسٌ مُفَلْطَحٌ means A broad, or wide, head; as also ↓ فِلْطَاحٌ. (K.) ― -b2- إِذَا ضَنُّوا عَلَيْهِ بَالمُفَلْطَحَةِ, occurring in a trad., is expl. by El-Khattábee as meaning [If they be niggardly, to him, of] the expanded cake of bread: and it is also expl. as meaning the dirhems [or money]: (TA:) or the phrase [accord. to one relation] is إِذَا ضَنُّوا عَلَيْكَ بِالمُطَلْفَحَةِ, in which both of the meanings above mentioned are assigned to the last word. (L and TA in art. طلفح.)

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