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طَحَا , aor. يَطْحُو, inf. n. طَحْوٌ; and طَحَى,
aor. يَطْحَى, inf. n. طَحْىٌ; two dial. vars., though
only طَحَى, like سَعَى, is mentioned in the K;
(TA;) He spread [a thing]; spread [it] out, or
forth; expanded [it] ; or extended [it]. (K, TA.)
You say, طَحَوْتُهُ, like دَحَوْتُهُ, i. e. I spread it;
&c. (S.) ―
2-b2- And you say, القَوْمُ يَطْحَى بَعْضُهُمْ
بَعْضًا The people, or party, repel one another.
(TA.) ＝
1-A2- طَحَى, (K,) or طَحَا, (TA,) also signifies It, or he, became spread, spread out or forth,
expanded, or extended; (K, TA;) being intrans.
as well as trans. (TA.) Accord. to As, (TA,)
طَحَا مِنَ الضَّرْبَةِ means He became extended (S,
TA) upon the ground (TA) in consequence of the
blow: (S, TA:) [and this is probably meant by
what here follows:] طَحَا is said when one throws
down a man upon his face; (K, TA;) or when
he spreads, or extends, him; or when he prostrates him on the ground: (TA:) but accord. to
Fr, one says, ↓ شَرِبَ حَتَّى طَحَّى i. e. [He drank
until] he stretched out his legs: and طحّى ↓ البَعِيرُ
إِلَى الأَرْضِ i. e. The camel stuck to the ground,
either from emptiness or from emaciation: and
in like manner one says of a man when people
call him to aid or to do an act of kindness: the
verb being in all these instances with teshdeed:
as though, by saying this, he contradicted As as
to its being without teshdeed. (TA.) Accord.
to AA, (S,) طَحَيْتُ means I lay, or lay upon my
side, or laid my side upon the ground. (S, K. *)
And you say, ↓ نَامَ فُلَانٌ فَتَطَحَّى i. e. [Such a
one slept, and] lay, or lay upon his side, in a
wide space of ground. (TA.) ―
2-b2- Also, i. e. طَحَا,
(AA, S,) or طَحَى, (K,) He (a man, AA, S)
went away into the country, or in the land: (AA,
S, K:) like طَهَا. (S in art. طهو.) One says, مَا
أَدْرِى أَيْنَ طَحَا [I know not whither he has gone
away &c.]. (S.) And طَحَا بِهِ قَلْبُهُ His heart
carried him away (ذَهَبَ بِهِ) in [the pursuit of]
anything: (S, K:) whence the saying of Alkameh
Ibn-'Abadeh,
طَحَا بِكَ قَلْبٌ فِى الحِسَانِ طَرُوبُ
بُعَيْدَ الشَّبَابِ عَصْرَ حَانَ مَشِيبُ
[A heart much affected with emotion has carried
thee away in the pursuit of the beauties long after
youthfulness, in the time when entering upon
hoariness has arrived: بُعَيْدَ being here a dim.
used for the purpose of enhancement]. (S, TA.)
And طَحَى بِكَ هَمَّكَ Thy anxiety has carried thee
away in a far-extending course. (TA.) And
طَحَى بِالكُرَةِ He threw the ball. (TA.) And
طَحَى بِفُلَانٍ شَحْمُهُ Such a one became fat. (TA.)
―
2-b3- طَحَا, aor. يَطْحُو, signifies also He, or it, was
or became, distant, or remote. (K.)