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1 قَتَّ ذ , (M, K, *) or قَتَّ الحَدِيثَ or الأَحَادِيثَ, (S, O, TA,) aor. قَتُ3َ , (S, M, O,) inf. n. قَتٌّ, (S, M, O, K,) with which ↓ قِتِّيتَى is syn. [either as an inf. n., app. in an intensive sense, or as a simple subst.]; (O, K;) and so too is تَقْتِيتٌ [as inf. n. of ↓ قتّت ], (K,) or so is تَقْتِيتُ الحَدِيثِ; (O;) and so is قَتْقَتَةٌ [as inf. n. of ↓ قَتْفَتَ ], (K,) or so is قَتْقَتَةُ الحَدِيثِ; (O;) i. q. نَمَّ, (M,) or نَمَّ الحَدِيثَ (S, O, K, * TA) or الأَحَادِيثَ, (S, O, TA,) i. e. [He uttered calumny; or] he made known, divulged, or told, discourse, or conversation, in a malicious, or mischievous, manner, so as to occasion discord, dissension, or the like; (TA;) or قَتَّ الحَدِيثَ signifies he falsified and embellished discourse, or conversation: (A:) it is said that القَتّ, which signifies النَّمِيمَةُ [i. e. the uttering, or utterance, of calumny], (M, L,) [and] so does ↓ القِتِّيتَى , (S,) is from الحَدِيثَ ↓ تقتّت , meaning he sought time after time to obtain a knowledge of discourse, or conversation, and listened thereto: (M, L:) and ↓ القِتِّيتَى signifies [also] the seeking time after time to obtain a knowledge of نَمَائِم [i. e. calumnies, pl. of نَمِيمَةٌ]. (M, TA.) ― -b2- And قَتٌّ [app. as an inf. n.] signifies The lying, or uttering of falsehood: (K:) [or] a prepared lying. (M.) ― -b3- And قَتَّهُ, (K, TA,) inf. n. قَتٌّ, (TA,) signifies قَدَّهُ [meaning He cut it out, or shaped it, in any manner, whether lengthwise or otherwise]. (K, TA.) One says, هُوَ حَسَنُ القَتِّ, meaning حَسَنُ القَدِّ [i. e. He is goodly, or beautiful, in conformation]: and a poet says, “ كَأَنَّ ثَدْيَيْهَا إِِذَا مَا ا@بْرَنْتَى
حُقَّانِ مِنْ عَاجٍ أُجِيدَا قَتَّا
” meaning قَدًّا and خَرْطًا [i. e. As though her two breasts, when they come forth unexpectedly (a meaning of ابرنتى expl. in the L, in art. برت, on the authority of Lh, but it is here expl. in the TA as signifying انتصب, so that the phrase may be rendered either when appearing unexpectedly, or when standing out), were two round boxes of ivory, excellently cut out, or shaped, and made smooth in their surfaces]: (O, TA: *) regarding them as one member, he has made the verb singular. (O.) ― -b4- Also He prepared, disposed, or arranged, it; or put it into a right, or good, state. (M, K.) ― -b5- And He collected it together by little and little. (M, K.) ― -b6- And He made it, or made it to appear, to be little; syn. قَلَّلَهُ. (M, K.) And قَتَّ أَثَرَهُ, (M, K,) aor. قَتُ3َ , inf. n. قَتٌّ, (M,) He followed, or followed after, his track, or footsteps, in pursuit; or endeavoured to track him, or trace him. (M, K.) ― -b7- And قَتٌّ signifies also The following the footsteps of a man secretly, in order to know what he desires [to do]. (O, K.) ― -b8- And A pastor's smelling the odour of a camel (O, K) that is مَهْيُوم (K) [i. e.] that is smitten by the [disease termed] هُيَام. (O, TA. [Freytag, supposing مَهْيُوم in this explanation in the K to be syn. with هَائِم, renders the verb as meaning He (a pastor) smelt the urine of a straying camel, that he might know its way.]) -A2- See also the next paragraph.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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