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سِمَاطٌ ذ A rank of people: (M, K:) or a side, or lateral part or portion: (Msb:) each of the two sides, or lateral portions, of men, and of palmtrees. (S, Msb.) You say, قَامَ بَيْنَ السِّمَاطَيْنِ He stood between the two ranks. (TA.) And قَامَ القَوْمَ حَوْلَهُ سِمَاطَيْنِ The people stood around him in two ranks. (TA.) And هُمْ عَلَى سِمَاطٍ وَاحِدٍ They are according to one order. (K.) And مَشَى بَيْنَ السِّمَاطَيْنِ He walked between the two sides. (S, Msb.) And خُذُوا سِمَاطَىِ الطَّرِىِّ Take ye the two sides of the fresh, or moist. (TA.) And اِجْعَلِ الأَمْرَ سِمَاطًا وَاحِدًا Make thou the affair, or case, [uniform, or] one uniform thing. (Fr, TA in art. بأج.) ― -b2- The part of a valley which is between the upper extremity and the lower: (M, K:) pl. سُمُطٌ. (K) ― -b3- سِمَاطُ الطَّعَامِ The thing upon which food is spread: (K:) pronounced by the vulgar سُمَاط: [and applied by them to such as is long, prepared for a large company of people:] pl. أَسْمِطَةٌ [a pl. of pauc.] and سِمَاطَاتٌ. (TA.)

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