بلط
1 بَلَطَ, (
IDrd,
K,) [
aor.,
accord. to a rule observed in the
K, بَلُطَ,]
inf. n. بَلْطٌ, (
IDrd,
TA,) He spread, or paved, (
K,
TA,) a house, (
K,) and the ground, (
TA,) with بَلَاط [or flag-stones], (
K,
TA,) or with baked bricks; (
TA;) as also ↓ بلّط, (
K,)
inf. n. تَبْلِيطٌ; (
TA;) and ↓ ابلط: (
K:) or, as also ↓ the second, he made [or constructed] a wall with بَلَاط: (
IDrd,
TA:) or ↓ the second, he made a house plain, or even. (
TA.)
A2: He struck him, or it, with the بَلْط [
q. v.]. (
TA.) 2 بَلَّطَ see 1, in three places.
A2: The vulgar phrase بَلِّطِ السَّفِينَةَ signifies Make thou fast the ship; as though it were an order to make it cleave to the ground. (
TA.) [You say, بَلَّطَ السَّفِينَةَ فِى الرَّمْلِ, meaning He ran the ship aground upon the sand.]
3 بالط القَوْمُ بَنِى فُلَانٍ The people, or company of men, alighted with the sons of such a one, each party to oppose the other, upon the ground: (
K, *
TA:) from بَلَاطٌ signifying the “ earth,” or “ ground; ” or “ even, smooth ground. ” (
TA.) بالط القَوْمُ, (
K,)
inf. n. مُبَالَطَةٌ, (
S,) The people, or company of men, contended, one with another, in fight with swords, (
S, *
K,
TA,) upon their feet; (
TA;) as also ↓ تبالطوا: (
S,
K:) مبالطة is only upon the ground; (
Z,
TA;) and you do not say تبالطوا when the people are riders. (
TA.)
b2: بَالَطَنِى He fled from me, (
AHn,
K,) and went away in the land: (
AHn,
TA:) or he left me; quitted me. (
TA.) 4 أَبْلَطَ He clave to the [بَلَاط, i. e.] earth, or ground; (
K;) said of a man: (
TA:) he became bankrupt, or insolvent, or reduced to a state of difficulty or poverty, or without any property, and clave to the بَلَاط: (
AHeyth:) he became poor, and his property went away; as also أُبْلِطَ: (
S,
K:) so says
Ks; and
Az says the like: (
S:) or he became poor; or had little property. (
TA.)
A2: أَبْلَطَ اللِّصُّ القَوْمَ The robber left the people, or company of men, upon the surface of the ground, and left them not anything: (
Lh,
TA:) or simply, left them not anything. (
K.)
b2: ابلط المَطَرُ الأَرْضَ The rain fell upon the بَلَاط [or surface] of the earth, (
K,
TA,) so that no dust was seen upon it. (
TA.)
b3: See also 1.
6 تَبَاْلَطَ see 3.
بَلْطٌ and ↓ بُلْطٌ [An axe;]
i. q. مِخْرَطٌ; (
K,
TA;) i. e. the iron instrument with which the خَرَّاط barks and planes (يَخْرِطُ) [a branch of a tree]: an Arabic word: the vulgar call it ↓ بَلْطَةٌ [now mostly applied to a battle-axe; in Turkish بَالْتَهْ]. (
TA.)
AHn says, An Arab of the desert quoted to me, فَالْبَلْطُ يَبْرِى حِيَدَ الفَرْفَارِ [And the axe pares off the knobs, or knots, of the tree called farfár]: حَيْدَةٌ [the
sing. of حِيَدٌ] signifying a knob (سِلْعَة) in a tree; or a knot; which is cut off, and whereof vessels are shaped out, so that they are variegated and beautiful. (
TA.) بُلْطٌ: see بَلْطٌ.
بَلْطَةٌ: see بَلْطٌ.
بُلْطِىٌّ [The labrus Niloticus;] a kind of fish that is found in the Nile, said to eat of the leaves of Paradise: it is the best of fish: and they liken to it him who is rising out of childhood, in a state of youthfulness and tenderness or delicateness. (
TA.) بَلَاطٌ The earth, or ground: (
TA:) or even, smooth ground. (
K,
TA.)
b2: The face, or surface, of the earth, or ground: (
K:) or the part where what is hard, thereof, i. e. of the earth or ground, ends: (
AHn,
K:) or the hard part of the exterior thereof. (
A,
TA.)
b3: [Flag-stones, or flat stones for pavement; and baked bricks for pavement; (a
coll. gen. n., of which the
n. un. is with ة;)] stones, (
S,
Msb,
K,) and any other things, (
Msb,) which are spread in a house (
S,
K) &c., (
S,) or with which a house is spread or paved. (
Msb.)
b4: Any ground, or floor, paved with such stones, or with baked bricks; (
K;) [a pavement.]
b5: You say with respect to a niggardly and mean man, مَا ذَا يَأْخُذُ الرِّيحُ مِنَ البَلَاطِ [What will the wind take from the pavement?]. (
TA.)
b6: and رَجُلٌ بَلَاطٌ (assumed
tropical:) A man poor, or in want. (
TA.)
b7: And إِنَّهَا حَسَنَةُ البَلَاطِ إِذَا جُرِّدَتْ (
tropical:) Verily she is goodly, or beautiful, in skin when she is stripped. (
TA.) بَلُّوطْ [The acorn;] a certain thing well known; (
S;) the fruit, or produce, of a kind of tree, [namely, the oak,] which is eaten, (
Mgh,
Msb,) sometimes, (
Msb,) and with the bark of which one tans, (
Mgh,
Msb,) sometimes: (
Msb:) or [the oak; or this kind of tree is properly called شَجَرُ البَلُّوطِ;] a kind of tree; the fruit, or produce, whereof they used as food, in ancient times; cold and dry (
K,
TA) in the second degree, or, as some say, in the first; or its dryness is in the third degree; or it is hot in the first degree; (
TA;) heavy, coarse, (
K,
TA,) slow of digestion, bad for the stomach, occasioning headache, injurious to the bladder, but rendered good by its being roasted and having sugar added to it; (
TA;) suppressing the urine, (
K,
TA,) and rendering it difficult; preventing exhaustion by loss of blood, and the emission of blood [from a wound]; good for hardnesses, with the fat of a kid; preventing the progress of [the disease in the mouth called] قُلَاع, and فروع [
app. a mistake for قُرُوح, or wounds], when it is burnt; preventing also excoriation, and poisons, and looseness of the bowels; and very nutritious when easily digested. (
TA.) [See also عَفْصٌ.
b2: Forskål, in his Flora Aegypt., p. lvi., mentions this name as applied to The common ash-tree; fraxinus excelsior.]
b3: بَلُّوطُ المَلِكِ, according to some, The walnut:
accord. to others, the شَاهْبَلُّوط [a Persian word, and also used by Arabs in the present day, applied to the chestnut]: as is said in the Minháj. (
TA.)
b4: بَلُّوط الأَرْضِ [applied in the present day to The herb germander, or chamædrys;] a certain plant, the leaves of which resemble the هِنْدِ بَآء [or endive]: it is diuretic; aperient; and wasting to the spleen. (
K.) بَلَالِيطٌ Level, or even, lands, or tracts of ground: (
K:) no
sing. to it is known. (
Seer.) [See also بَلَاطٌ.]
مُبْلِطٌ and مُبْلَطٌ, as epithets applied to a man, part. ns. of أَبْلَطَ and أُبْلِطَ, which see above.]
