سقط

سَقَطَ، سِقْطٌ

A child or fetus that comes from the womb abortively, immaturely, imperfectly, or dead but fully formed.

The verb construction سَقَطَ الولدُ describes such an abortive delivery; سِقْطٌ names the child or fetus.

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سَقَطَ

To slip, err, make a mistake, or fall into a fault.

Used of error in conduct and in the idiom سَقَطَ فِي يَدِهِ or related constructions apart from the specifically Quranic regret sense.

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سَقَطَ

Of the moon or a star, to set.

A figurative use based on its descending or disappearing from view.

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سَقَطَ

To die.

A figurative use of falling.

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سَقَطَ

To totter or become unsteady because of old age.

Used of an elderly person whose physical stability has declined.

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سَقَطَ إِلَى

To alight at, come to, or arrive at someone's abode.

The preposition إِلَى marks the destination or person approached.

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سَقَطَ عَلَى

To stumble upon, light upon, or find something sought or lost.

Used of finding a lost animal, a knowledgeable person, or another desired object.

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سَقَطَ

To descend from a position or fall from honor, rank, or esteem.

Includes falling from one's station and falling from another person's regard.

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سَقَطَ

To drop off, fall behind, or remain in the rear.

A figurative extension of falling behind other people or things.

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سَقَطَ عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ

To deviate from the road or proper route.

An idiomatic extension from falling away from a path.

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سَقَطَ

To be dropped, left out, or omitted; for a person's name, to fall out of a register.

Used of a mention, name, letter, or other item that is no longer included.

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سَقَطَتْ قُوَّتُهُ

For one's power or capacity to fall short of attaining an objective.

A conventional expression for failure to reach or accomplish an affair.

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سَقَطَ

To become null, void, annulled, or of no force; to lapse or fall away.

Used of claims, dues, conditions, laws, commands, rewards, punishments, good deeds, sins, and similar things.

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سَقَطَ الحَرُّ

For heat to fall, come, or befall; in another construction, to leave or depart from someone.

The lexicon records the apparently opposite directional constructions separately.

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سَقَطَ الحَدِيثُ

For discourse to pass from one interlocutor to another.

Used of an exchange in which speech falls from each person to the other.

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سَقْطَةٌ

A fall, especially a violent fall.

The noun may also be used for a physical fall distinct from its figurative senses of error.

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سَقْطَةٌ

A slip, lapse, fault, wrong action, or bad word.

Used of an error in conduct, speech, or a saying that swerves from rectitude.

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سَقَطٌ

What falls from or is discarded by a thing and is regarded as refuse, worthless, paltry, or of little account.

Used of food, household goods, seasoning items, and the less-valued parts of a slaughtered animal.

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سَقَطٌ

A mistake or error in speech, reckoning, writing, or action.

A noun for an occurrence of error rather than the act of falling itself.

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سَقَطٌ

A disgraceful or shameful thing, vice, or fault.

A figurative valuation of something as morally objectionable or dishonorable.

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سَقَطُ الكَلَامِ

Evil or objectionable speech.

A specialized expression for blameworthy words.

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سَقَطِيٌّ

A seller of worthless, mean, or low-valued household goods and refuse.

The goods are those called سَقَطُ المَتَاعِ.

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سِقْطُ النَّارِ

A spark or other particle that falls from a fire-drill or between the fire-sticks before the fire is fully produced.

A specialized noun for material falling during the production of fire.

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سِقْطُ الرَّمْلِ

The slope, fall, or terminal edge of a tract of sand.

It may denote where the sand ends, thins out, or reaches its furthest extent.

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سِقْطٌ

The visible edge or extremity of a cloud, appearing as though it were falling toward the earth.

A specialized meteorological and horizon expression.

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سِقْطُ الخِبَاءِ

The lower edge, strip, or side of a tent.

The term is derived from the notion of the tent's edge reaching or falling toward the ground.

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سِقْطُ الجَنَاحِ

A bird's wing, especially the part that drags along the ground.

The expression may refer to either wing or specifically its trailing portion.

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سِقْطَا اللَّيْلِ

The two extremities of night: its beginning and its end.

A poetic expression for the limits or sides of the darkness of night.

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سِقَاطٌ

Unripe dates that fall from palm trees.

The form may be treated as singular or plural in this specialized use.

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سِقَاطٌ

Dates brought from al-Yamāmah by those who travel there to obtain them.

A regional lexicalized use distinct from the general sense of fallen dates.

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سَقِيطٌ

Hoarfrost or rime: dew that falls and freezes on the ground.

A specialized weather term.

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سَقِيطٌ

Snow.

A regional or extended weather sense.

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سَقِيطٌ

Hail.

Also expressed as سَقِيطُ السَّحَابِ.

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سَقِيطٌ

Dew that has fallen upon the ground.

A broader use than the specifically frozen form of dew.

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سَقِيطٌ

Scattered or fallen particles, such as pearls or leaves.

The plural use may describe dispersed objects lying apart from one another.

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سَقِيطٌ

A whelp or young animal.

A lexicalized noun, synonymous with جِرْوٌ.

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سَاقَطَ

Of a horse, to outstrip or leave other horses behind.

A figurative use based on making others fall behind.

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سَاقَطَ الحَدِيثَ

To converse alternately, or to tell someone information piece by piece.

The exchange proceeds successively, one speaker taking up after the other, or one person disclosing matters one by one.

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سَاقَطَ

Of a horse, to run in a slack, languid, or interrupted manner.

The expression may describe an uneven or repeatedly interrupted gait.

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سِقَاطٌ

Repeated injury and bleeding of a horse's foot from stones during running.

A specialized equestrian noun.

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سَاقَطَ

For a man to fail to attain the condition of the generous or noble.

A figurative valuation of a person's character or standing.

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أَسْقَطَ

For a pregnant female or animal to cast or deliver a fetus abortively, immaturely, imperfectly, or dead but formed.

The lexical evidence records variation over which female subjects and object complements are idiomatic.

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أَسْقَطَ

To degrade someone from an honorable station.

A causative figurative extension of making someone fall from rank.

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أَسْقَطَ

To drop, leave out, or omit a letter, word, name, or other item.

Used of textual omission and of removing a person's name from a register.

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أَسْقَطَ

To annul, reject, or render null, void, or of no force; to abate an amount from a price.

Used of claims, dues, arguments, conditions, laws, commands, rewards, punishments, and similar matters.

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أَسْقَطَ لَهُ بِالكَلَامِ

To revile someone with evil speech.

A specialized idiomatic construction.

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تَسَقَّطَ

To seek out another's mistake, or work to make someone err, lie, or reveal information.

The form can describe deliberate probing for an error or disclosure.

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تَسَقَّطَ الخَبَرَ

To obtain news or information little by little.

The information is received successively, one item after another.

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تَسَاقَطَ

To throw oneself upon something or someone.

It may describe throwing oneself upon a person in order to protect him.

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سَاقِطٌ

A fruit that falls before maturity.

The feminine form سَاقِطَةٌ and its plural سَوَاقِطُ are used in this substantivized sense.

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سَاقِطٌ

A saying or word issuing from a speaker and taken up or heard by another.

A proverbial metaphor of speech falling from the mouth and being picked up by its hearer.

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سَاقِطٌ

Hanging down, pendent, or pendulous.

An adjectival extension from something falling or extending downward.

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سَاقِطٌ

Tottering because of old age.

Used as an epithet of an elderly person.

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سَاقِطٌ

Low, ignoble, base, vile, or lacking reputation in lineage or personal standing.

May describe a person or his ancestry and social standing.

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سُقَّاطُ النَّاسِ

The refuse, rabble, or lowest and least regarded sort of people.

Also used of soldiers of whom no account is made.

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سَاقِطٌ

Deficient in intellect, intelligence, or understanding; stupid.

A figurative characterization of a person's mental capacity.

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سَاقِطٌ

Remaining behind or in the rear of others.

Includes a horse or person whose progress falls behind.

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سَاقِطٌ

Of a thing, falling short of what is due, proper, or just.

A figurative valuation of something as deficient or below the proper mean.

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سَاقِطٌ

A person who travels to al-Yamāmah to obtain dates or provisions.

A regional occupational or descriptive use.

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سَوَاقِطُ

Small, low mountains close to the ground.

A plural geographic use based on low or fallen-looking elevations.

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أَسْقَاطِيٌّ

A seller of the less-valued parts of a slaughtered animal.

These parts are collectively called سَقَطٌ.

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مَسْقِطٌ، مَسْقَطٌ

A place or time of falling, dropping, or ending.

Includes the place where an object falls or where sand or another thing comes to an end; it can also denote a time such as the setting of a star.

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مَسْقِطُ الرَّأْسِ

Birthplace.

A conventional expression literally referring to the place where one's head first came down or where one was born.

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مَسْقِطُ النَّجْمِ

The time of a star's setting.

A conventional temporal use, especially associated with the setting of an asterism.

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مُسْقِطٌ

A female that casts or delivers her fetus abortively or immaturely.

The term describes the subject performing the abortive delivery.

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مَسْقَطَةٌ

A cause of someone's falling from the regard or esteem of people.

Used of an improper deed that lowers a person's reputation.

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مِسْقَاطٌ

A female accustomed to cast or deliver her young abortively or immaturely.

A noun of habitual tendency.

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مَسْقُوطَةٌ

A fallen date.

The expression may be analyzed as equivalent to سَاقِطَةٌ or as “having falling”; the evidence preserves both analyses.

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مُتَسَاقِطٌ

Walking in a slack or languid manner, as if repeatedly stumbling or throwing oneself down.

A descriptive participle for an unsteady gait.

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سَقَّاطٌ

A sword that cuts through what it strikes and falls or reaches beyond it, sometimes cleaving through to the ground.

A specialized description of a sword whose cut passes through the object struck and extends beyond it.

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سُقَّيْطٌ

The small tubers forming the root of cyperus esculentus, or the cyperus plant itself.

A specialized botanical noun, also identified with حَبُّ العَزِيزِ.

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سُقَّاطَةٌ

A door latch placed over the upper part of a door and falling onto it to fasten it.

A specialized object noun for a falling fastening mechanism.

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