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قَتٌّ ذ inf. n. of قَتَّ [q. v.]. (S, M, O, K.) -A2- And i. q. فِصْفِصَةٌ, (S, M, O, Msb,) or إِِسْفِسَتٌ, (Mgh, K,) both of which signify the same, i. e. A certain food, or fodder, of beasts, as is said in the Nh; (TA;) [a species of trefoil, or clover;] or (M, K) when dry: (M, Mgh, O, Msb:) accord. to Sb, a pl. [or rather a coll. gen. n.], (M,) sing., or n. un., قَتَّةٌ, (T, S, M, O,) like as تَمْرَةٌ is of تَمْرٌ. (T, S, O.) ― -b2- And A certain wild grain, not raised by man; which the people of the desert, on the occasion of a year of drought, when they are destitute of milk and dates and the like for their food, bruise and grind; being content therewith notwithstanding its coarseness. (T, Msb, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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