ل • ح • ت

, aor. لَحَتَ , (inf. n. لَحْتٌ, TA,) He beat, struck, or smote, a person with a staff, or stick. (K.) -A2- لَحَتَ, aor. لَحَتَ , (inf. n. لَحْتٌ, TA,) He peeled, or unbarked, a staff, or stick: (K:) or sawed it, and peeled, or unbarked it: as also نَحَتَ. (IAar.) هٰذَا رَجُلٌ لَا يَضِيرُكَ عَلَيْهِ نَحْتًا وَلَحْتًا expl. by ما يزيدك عليه نحتا اللشعر ولحتا له (tropical:) [This is a man than whom none will be more useful to thee in the trimming of verses: يضيرك, which is written without the syll. points, is probably a mistake for يَضُرُّكَ: see art. ضر]. (IAar.) لَحَتَهُ بِالعَذْلِ, aor. لَحَتَ , inf. n. لَحْتٌ, [He trimmed him with reproof]: a phrase similar to that immediately preceding. (TA, app. from IAar.) لَحَتَهُ, aor. لَحَتَ , inf. n. لَحْتٌ, (assumed tropical:) He took what he had, leaving him nothing; as also لَتَحَهُ. (TA.) -A3- لَحَتَ Inivit puellam: as also نَحَتَ, but this latter is not so well known. (TA, art. نحت.)

i. q. صَادِقٌ; (Sgh, K;) [i.e., Vehement, or intense, cold: see بَحْتٌ: and see also لَخْتٌ]. لَحْتٌ is here a mere imitative sequent. (TA.)