بَلَاطٌ

The earth, or ground: (TA:) or even, smooth ground. (K, TA.)

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.)

[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.)

Any ground, or floor, paved with such stones, or with baked bricks; (K;) [a pavement.]

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.)

And رَجُلٌ بَلَاطٌ (assumed tropical:) A man poor, or in want. (TA.)

And إِنَّهَا حَسَنَةُ البَلَاطِ إِذَا جُرِّدَتْ (tropical:) Verily she is goodly, or beautiful, in skin when she is stripped. (TA.)