ق و ت

قَوَّتَ see the preceding paragraph, in two places.

اقاتهُ : see 1, first and second sentences. ― -b2- Also He kept, preserved, guarded, or protected, him. (TA.) -A2- And اقات عَلَى الشَّىْءِ , (S, O, K, *) and اقاته , (K,) He had power, or ability, to do, effect, accomplish, attain, or compass, the thing. (S, O, K.) -A3- See, again, 1, latter half, in two places.

فُلَانٌ يَتَقَوَّتُ بِكَذَا [Such a one feeds, nourishes, or sustains, himself with such a thing], (S, O,) or بِالقَلِيلِ [with that which is little]: (Msb:) or تقّوت بِالشَّىْءِ he made the thing his قُوت [or food]; and بِهِ ↓ اقتات and ↓ اقتاتهُ signify thus likewise: (TA:) or بِهِ ↓ اقتات signifies he ate it; (Msb;) and so does ↓ اقتاتهُ . (TA.)

اقتات signifies He was, or became, fed, nourished, or sustained; being quasi-pass. of قَاتَ signifying as expl. in the beginning of this art. (S, A, Mgh, O, K, TA.) ― -b2- And it is trans. by means of بِ , and by itself: see 5, in four places. One says, هُمْ يَقْتَاتُونَ الحَبَّ [They feed upon, or eat, grain]. (A.) ― -b3- The saying, of Tufeyl, يَقْتَاتُ فَضْلَ سَنَامِهَا الرَّحْلُ is held by ISd to mean, (assumed tropical:) The saddle [as it were] eats the remainder of her hump, [as though] making it to be food for itself: accord. to IAar, he says, the meaning is, takes it away thing after thing [or piecemeal]; but I have not heard this [meaning] in any other instance: hence, says IAar, the oath sworn one day by El-'Okeylee, [said in the A to be an oath of the Arabs of the desert,] نَفْسِى البَصِيرِ مَا فَعَلْتُ ↓ لَا وَقَايءِتِ , for, he says, الاِقْتِيَاتُ [the inf. n. of اقتات ] and القَوْتُ [inf. n. of ↓ قَاتَ ] are one [in signification]; and AM says that the meaning of this is, [No, by] Him who takes my spirit, breath after breath, until He has taken it wholly, [the All-seeing, I did not that thing:] and the saying of Tufeyl means the saddle, while I am riding upon it, takes by little and little the fat of her hump until there remains not of it aught. (TA.) ― -b4- One says also, الحَرْبُ تَقْتَاتُ الاـِبِلَ (tropical:) [War makes the camels to be food]; meaning that [in consequence of war] the camels are given in payment of bloodwits. (A.) ― -b5- And فُلَانٌ يَقْتَاتُ الكَلَامَ (tropical:) Such a one retrenches, or curtails, speech, or talk; [said of one who speaks, or talks, little;] syn. يُقِلُّهُ . (A.) -A2- See also 1, latter half. [Hence,] one says, ↓ اِقْتَتْ لِنَارِكَ قِيتَةً (assumed tropical:) [Supply to thy fire ali- ment;] feed thy fire with fuel. (S, O, K.) And ↓ اِقْتَتْ لِلنَّارِ نَفْخَكَ قِيتَةً , and اُنْفُخْ فِى النَّارِ نَفْخًا ↓ قُوتًا , (assumed tropical:) Blow thou the fire with thy blowing, and with a blowing, gently and little [as an aliment]. (L.)

استقاتهُ He asked of him قُوت [i. e. food, or victuals]. (S, A, O, K.)

[ قَاتٌ A species of tree, of the class Pentandria, order Monogynia, of the Linnæan system; belonging to the natural order of Celastraceæ; mentioned in botanical works under the name of Catha edulis; and fully described by Forskål in his Flora Ægypt. Arab., pp. 63, 64; in the latter page of which he says: “ In Yemen colitur iisdem hortis cum Coffea. Stipitibus plantatur. Arabes folia viridia avide edunt, multum eorum vires venditantes, qui copiosius comederit, vel totam vigilet noctem: asseverant quoque pestem ea loca non intrare ubi hæc colitur arbor: ” &c. ― -b2- And in the same work, p. cxviii., Forskål mentions قات الرعيان (by which is meant قَاتُ الرُّعْيَانِ ) as the name of A species of lettuce, lactuca inermis. ― -b3- Respecting the former plant, see also De Sacy's Chrest. Arabe, sec. ed., i. 462, 463.]

قُوت Food, aliment, nutriment, victuals, or provisions, by means of which the body of man is sustained; (S, A, * O, K; *) as also ↓ قِيتٌ and ↓ قِيتَةٌ , (S, O, K,) as used in phrases here following, (S, O,) with kesr to the ق , and the و changed into ى , (S,) and ↓ قَايءِتٌ and ↓ قُوَاتٌ , (K,) the last mentioned, but not expl., by Lh, and thought by ISd to be from قُوتٌ : (TA:) what is eaten for the purpose of retaining the remains of life; (A, * O, * Msb, TA; *) thus expl. by Az and IF: (Msb:) or food sufficient to sustain life: (TA:) pl. أَقْوَاتٌ . (Msb, TA.) One says, مَا عِنْدَهُ قُوتُ لَيْلَةٍ and لَيْلَةٍ ↓ قِيتُ and لَيْلَةٍ ↓ قِيتَةُ (S, O, TA) He has not a night's food sufficient to sustain life. (TA.) And ↓ جَدُّ ا@مْرِيءٍ فِى قَايءِتِهِ , a prov., meaning A man's lot in life is manifest in his food. (Meyd.) ― -b2- See also 8, last sentence.

قِيتٌ : see قُوتٌ , in two places.

قِيتَةٌ : see قُوتٌ , in two places: ― -b2- and see also 8, last two sentences.

قُوَاتٌ : see قُوتٌ , first sentence.

قَايءِتٌ [act. part. n. of قَاتَ ; Feeding, &c. ― -b2- And hence, Sufficing]. القَايءِتُ مِنَ العَيْشِ means What is sufficient [of the means of subsistence]. (K.) And one says, هُوَ فِى قَايءِتٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ He is in a state of sufficiency [in respect of the means of subsistence]. (S. O.) ― -b3- See also قُوتٌ , in two places. -A2- See also 8, former half. ― -b2- القَايءِتُ is an appellation of The lion. (O, K.)

مُقِيتٌ [Giving, or a giver of, food, nourishment, or sustenance. (See 1, first sentence.) ― -b2- And hence,] Keeping, preserving, guarding, or protecting; or a keeper, &c.; syn. حَافِظٌ [as signifying thus; and app. as signifying also watching; or a watcher]: (S, A, O, Msb, K:) and witnessing; or a witness; syn. شَاهِدٌ ; (S, O, Msb, K;) or شَهِيدٌ : (A:) and AO says that it signifies, with the Arabs, one acquainted ( مَوْقُوفٌ ) with a thing ( عَلَى شَىْءٍ ). (TA.) Th cites the following verses (of Es-Semow'al Ibn-Ádiyà, O): لَيْتَ شِعْرِى وَأَشْعُرَنَّ اـِذَا مَا قَرَّبُوهَا مَنْشُورَةً وَدُعِيتُ أَلِىَ الفَضْلُ أَمْ عَلَىَّ اـِذَا حُو سِبْتُ اـِنِّى عَلَى الحِسَابِ مُقِيتُ [meaning Would that I knew, but I shall assuredly know when they shall have set it (namely, the صَحِيفَة , or record, of my actions,) near, unfolded, and I am summoned, whether superiority be for me or against me when I am reckoned with: verily I shall be a watcher, or a witness, of the reckoning, or, accord. to some, as is said in the TA, acquainted with the reckoning]: i. e. I shall know what evil I have done; for [as is said in the Kur lxxv. 14] man shall be a witness against himself: (S, O, TA:) IB says that, accord. to Seer, the correct reading is, رَبِّى على الحساب مقيت [meaning my Lord is able to make the reckoning] because he who is submissive to his Lord does not describe himself by this epithet: but IB adds that Seer has founded this remark upon the assumption that مقيت is here used as meaning مُقْتَدِرٌ ; and that if it be understood as syn. with حَافِظٌ and شَاهِدٌ , the former reading is not objectionable. (TA.) ― -b3- المُقِيتُ is one of the best names of God: (TA:) and [as such] signifies The Possessor of power; (Fr, Zj, S, O, Msb, K, TA;) as He who gives to every man his قُوت [or food], (F, S, O, K, TA,) and likewise to everything: (TA:) or (as one of those names, TA) the Preserver, or Protector, (Zj, TA,) who gives to everything such preservation, or protection, as is needful. (TA.) It is said in the Kur [iv. 87], وَكَانَ ا@للّٰهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ مُقِيتًا , (S, O,) meaning [For God is] a possessor of power [over everything, or is omnipotent], (Ksh, Bd, Jel,) so He will requite everyone for what he has done: (Jel:) or a witness, [and] a preserver, or protector, or watcher. (Ksh, Bd.)