سنط
1 سَنُطَ,
aor. ـُ (
M,
K;) or ـِ
aor. ـَ
inf. n. سَنَطٌ; (
Msb;) or both; (
TA;) He was, or became, such as is termed سِنَاطٌ [
q. v.]. (
M,
Msb,
K.) سَنْطٌ [The mimosa Nilotica; also called acacia Nilotica;] a قَرَظ, [or this is properly the name of its fruit,] (
M,
K,) which grows in the صَعِيد [or Upper Egypt], (
M,) or [rather] in Egypt; [for it grows in Lower, as well as Upper, Egypt;] (
K;) it is the best kind of firewood of the people of that country, who assert that it has most of fire, and least of ashes; so says
AHn, on the authority of a person well informed; and he adds that they tan with it [or rather with its pods]: the word is foreign: (
M:) and is also written صَنْطٌ:
Sgh says that is an arabicized word, from the Indian حبذ. [So in the
TA, doubtless a mistranscription. In the
CK, السّنَطُ is erroneously put for السَّنْطُ.]
سِنَاطٌ (
S,
M,
Mgh,
Msb,
K) and سُنَاطٌ (
M,
O,
L,
CK) and ↓ سَنُوطٌ (
S,
M,
K) and ↓ سَنُوطِىٌّ (
S,
K) A man (
Msb) having no beard: (
M,
Mgh,
Msb:) or having no hair at all upon his face: (
M:) or having no hair upon the sides of his face [so I render كَوْسَج], and no beard at all: (
S,
K:) or having little hair upon the sides of the face, (
Mgh,
Msb,) or upon the side of the face, but not reaching to the state of the كَوْسَج: (
IAar,
K:) or
i. q. كَوْسَجٌ: (
Mgh:) or whose beard is on his chin [only], having nothing on the sides of the face: (
As,
K:) or this last signification,
accord. to
As, applies to سَنُوطٌ: (
TA:) the
pl. (of سَنُوطٌ
accord. to some copies of the
K and the
TA) is سُنُطٌ (
IAar,
K) and أَسْنَاطٌ [which is a
pl. of pauc.]: (
K:) سناط is used as a
sing. and
pl. epithet: it is used as a
pl. by Dhu-r-Rummeh. (
IB,
TA.) سَنُوطٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.
A2: Also A well-known medicine. (
K.) سَنُوطِىٌّ: see سِنَاطٌ.
