Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

حَطَأَ He cast, or threw; syn. رَمَى [and, like this, trans. by means of بِ]. (Ḳ.) [Hence,] حَطَأَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ, (AZ, Ṣ, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَحْطَأُ}, (Ḳ,) inf. n. حَطْءٌ, (Ṣ,) He cast him, or threw him, down prostrate upon the ground: (AZ, Ṣ, Ḳ:) or, with violence: one says, اِحْتَمَلَهُ فَحَطَأَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ [He raised him upon his back, and threw him down violently upon the ground]. (Lth, TA.) And حَطَأَتْ بِوَلَدِهَا She (a woman) cast forth her child from her womb. (TA in art. زكب.) And حَطَأَتِ القِدْرُ بِزَبَدِهَا The cooking-pot cast forth its froth, or scum, (Ṣ, TA,) in boiling. (TA.) And حَطَأَ بِسَلْحِهِ He cast forth his excrement, or ordure. (Ṣ.) And حَطَأَ [alone], aor. ـَ {يَحْطَأُ} and ـِ {يَحْطِأُ}, He cast forth his excrement, or ordure, at once, (Ḳ, TA,) quietly, or gently. (TA.) And حَطَأَ, (Ḳ,) or حَطَأَ بِهَا, (Ṣ,) He broke wind, with a sound. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

حَطَأَ بِهِ عَنْ رَأْيِهِ He turned him back from the opinion, or judgment, that he had formed. (IAth, Ḳ.)

حَطَأَهُ He struck him, or slapped him, on the back with his open hand: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or struck him gently on the back with the palm of his hand: (Ṣ in art. لطح:) or slapped him on the back, or between the shoulders, or on the upper part of the side, or on the chest; (Khálid Ibn-Jembeh, TA;) or on the back of the head: (AZ, TA:) and he struck him, or beat him, (Sh, Ḳ,*) with his hand; (Sh, TA;) but it is said that the meaning is, he struck him on the back of the neck: (TA:) it also occurs without ء. (TA.)

حَطَأَهَا He lay with her. (Ṣ, Ḳ.*)

حَطْأَةٌ A slap on the back [&c. (see the verb)] with the open hand. (Ṣ, TA.) It also occurs without ء, written حَطْوَةٌ. (TA.)

حَطِىْءٌ, applied to a man, Low, ignoble, mean, or sordid. (AZ, Ṣ, Ḳ.) You say also حَطِىْءٌ بَطِىْءٌ, using the latter word as an imitative sequent. (Ṣ.)

حُطَيْئَةٌ, applied to a man, Ugly; or contemptible; or ugly in aspect and small in body: (Th, Ṣ, Ḳ:) or short. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)