Quranic root
حطط
ḥ · ṭ · ṭ
The root centers on bringing something down from a higher position.
From physical lowering and unloading, usage develops into putting down burdens, requesting their removal, abating prices, descending, and figurative lowering. Related descriptions extend the idea to smoothing or flattening; some derived forms develop specialized senses.
- Maqāyīs · row 1391
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
حِطَّة
ḥiṭṭah
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A petition that burdens be put down; in the Quranic formula, a request for the removal of sins and forgiveness.
Used in the command قُولُوا حِطَّةٌ. The burden may be understood literally, while the Quranic interpretation commonly applies it figuratively to sins and their removal.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:58word 15
“Repentance”
Quran 7:161word 12
“Repentance”
A declaration or request of alighting and abiding in a town.
An alternative interpretation of the Quranic command, connecting the noun with alighting and settling rather than explicitly with the removal of sins.
- Lane · entry 14859
A right or proper saying.
An alternative interpretation of the Quranic command, understood as an instruction to speak correctly or appropriately.
- Mufradāt · row 336
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 35 Classical meanings
حَطَّ
To put or throw something down, unload it, or make it descend from a higher place; also to pay something down.
Used of loads removed from animals, saddles and similar objects, and things made to descend from above to below.
- Lane · entry 14853
حَطَّ رَحْلَهُ
To alight and settle or abide.
Literally, to put down one's saddle; the expression may refer to staying in a place.
- Lane · entry 14853
حَطَّ
To remove, scatter, or skim something away.
Used of removing leaves from a branch or taking froth from milk.
- Lane · entry 14853
حَطَّ
To lower or degrade someone.
A figurative extension of bringing something down.
- Lane · entry 14853
حَطَّ مِنَ الثَّمَنِ
To abate or reduce an amount from a price or debt.
Used with مِنْ for an amount taken off a price or debt.
- Lane · entry 14853
حَطَّ السِّعْرُ
For a price to become low or cheap, or to fall.
An intransitive use referring specifically to prices.
- Lane · entry 14853
حَطَّ فِي السَّيْرِ
For a camel to bear toward one side while moving; also, to move with vehement speed.
A specialized usage describing an animal's manner or speed of movement.
- Lane · entry 14853
حَطَّ إِلَى
To incline toward someone or something with one's affection or disposition.
Used of emotional inclination or turning toward a person.
- Lane · entry 14853
حَطَّ فِي عِرْضِ فُلَانٍ
To launch into or persist in reviling someone.
A conventional figurative construction with فِي and a person's reputation or honor.
- Lane · entry 14853
حَطَّ فِي الطَّعَامِ
To eat food, or to eat much of it.
A figurative construction describing vigorous or extensive eating.
- Lane · entry 14853
حَطَّ الجِلْدَ
To polish, smooth, figure, decorate, or rule leather.
The action is performed with a مِحَطّ, an instrument for working leather.
- Lane · entry 14853
اِنْحَطَّ
To be or become put down, descend, or go down from above to below; figuratively, to become lowered or degraded.
An intransitive or quasi-passive derived form; the same form is also used of descending a declivity.
- Lane · entry 14855
اِنْحَطَّ
To go back or backward, go away, or perish.
A further figurative use of the derived form, attested as an alternative lexical development.
- Lane · entry 14855
اِسْتَحَطَّهُ وِزْرَهُ
To ask someone to put down or remove a burden, including a figurative burden of sin.
The construction may refer to a real load or, figuratively, to sins or guilt.
- Lane · entry 14857
اِسْتَحَطَّ مِنَ الثَّمَنِ
To ask, demand, or desire an abatement from a price.
Used with مِنْ to specify the price or amount from which a reduction is sought.
- Lane · entry 14857
اِسْتَحَطَّ
To deserve to be lowered or degraded.
A figurative use of the derived form.
- Lane · entry 14857
حَطْحَطَ
To be or become quick in walking, going, or working.
A specialized reduplicated form describing speed or brisk activity.
- Lane · entry 14858
حِطَّة
A name for Ramadan.
A specialized designation explained by the idea that fasting the month removes some sin.
- Lane · entry 14859
حِطَّة
A decrease or diminution in rank or station.
A figurative nominal use referring to low or diminished social standing.
- Lane · entry 14859
حُطُط
Smooth or sleek bodies.
A plural descriptive use, explained as though the bodies had been polished with a tool.
- Lane · entry 14860
حَطُوط
A declivity or place of descent, especially a hill difficult to descend.
Used of terrain or a place by which one goes down.
- Lane · entry 14861
حَطُوط
An excellent, swift she-camel.
A figurative descriptive use associated with rapid movement.
- Lane · entry 14861
حَطِيط
An ankle-bone covered with flesh and fat so that it is not prominent.
A bodily descriptive expression.
- Lane · entry 14862
حَطِيطَة
An amount abated or deducted from a price.
A noun for the reduction itself; its plural is حَطَائِطُ.
- Lane · entry 14863
سِعْرٌ حَاطِطٌ
A low or cheap price.
An active-participial adjective applied to a price.
- Lane · entry 14865
أَحَطُّ
Smooth in the two portions of flesh and sinew alongside the backbone.
A bodily descriptive use referring to smoothness of the back's contours.
- Lane · entry 14866
مَحَطّ
A place where loads are put down, where one alights and settles, or where ships are unloaded.
The noun denotes a physical place of lowering, unloading, or arrival and settlement.
- Lane · entry 14867
مَحَطُّ الكَلَامِ
The meaning, point, or intended import of a saying.
A figurative expression extending the idea of a place where something comes to rest to the point of a statement.
- Lane · entry 14867
مِحَطّ
An instrument for polishing, smoothing, figuring, decorating, ruling, or otherwise working leather; also a pointed tool used by craftsmen.
The tool may be made of iron or wood and is used in leatherwork, tattooing, sewing, bookbinding, and related crafts.
- Lane · entry 14868
مَحْطُوط
Put down, especially of a load or similar object.
The passive participle preserves the literal result of حَطَّ.
- Lane · entry 14871
مَحْطُوط
Reduced or lowered in price.
A figurative application to a price.
- Lane · entry 14871
مَحْطُوط
Polished or smoothed leather.
A passive participial description of worked leather.
- Lane · entry 14871
مَحْطُوط
A sword made thin.
A figurative application of thinning or smoothing by removal.
- Lane · entry 14871
مَحْطُوط
Having bodily contours that are smooth, even, extended, or flattened.
Used descriptively of a rump, back, or flank; the examples do not impose a restriction to any one gender or body type.
- Lane · entry 14871
مُنْحَطّ
A shoulder joint of especially beautiful form, neither high nor low.
A specialized anatomical and aesthetic description.
- Lane · entry 14872
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic noun حِطَّة has multiple reported interpretations; the burden-removal sense is distinguished from alternative readings involving alighting and a right saying.
The supplied QAC data attest only the noun حِطَّة in two Quranic locations; the remaining meanings are broader Classical Arabic usages.