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شَعَرٌ قَطٌّ ذ , and ↓ قَطَطٌ , (M, Msb, K,) and ↓ قَطِطٌ , (TA,) Crisp, curly, or twisted and contracted, and short, hair: (M, K:) or hair that is very crisp, very curly, or much twisted and contracted: or, accord. to the T, ↓ قَطَطٌ means hair of the زَنْجِىّ: (Msb:) or you say, ↓ جَعْدٌ قَطَطٌ , meaning very crisp, very curly, or much twisted and contracted. (S.) ― -b2- رَجُلٌ قَطٌّ, and ↓ قَطَطٌ , (Msb,) or رَجُلٌ قَطُّ الشَّعَرِ, and ↓ قَطَطُ الشَّعَرِ, (S, M, K,) A man whose hair is crisp, curly, or twisted and contracted, and short: (M, K:) or whose hair is very crisp, very curly, or much twisted and contracted; (S, * Msb;) as also ↓ قِطَاطٌ : (K: accord. to some copies; but accord. to other copies, as a pl. in this sense: [the reading of the latter is more probably correct, and is that of the TA:]) or beautifully crisp or curly or twisted and contracted: (TA:) the pl. [of قَطٌّ] is أَقْطَاطٌ [a pl. of pauc.] and قَطُّونَ and قِطَاطٌ; and [of ↓ قَطَطٌ ] قَطَطُونَ: (M, K:) the epithet applied to a woman is قَطَّةٌ, and ↓ قَطَطٌ without ة. (M, Msb.) -A2- See also ↓ قَاطٌّ .
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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