ف • ط • ح

, (S, K,) aor. فَطَحَ , (K,) inf. n. فَطْحٌ; (S;) and ↓ فطّحهُ, (S, * K,) inf. n. تَفْطِيحٌ; (S;) He made it broad, or wide. (S, K.) And فَطَحَ العُودَ وَغَيْرَهُ, (K, TA,) inf. n. as above; and ↓ فطّحهُ, inf. n. as above; (TA;) He pared, or fashioned by cutting, the stick, or piece of wood, &c., and made it broad, or wide. (K, TA.) And فَطَحَ الحَدِيْدَةَ, and ↓ فطّحها, He made the piece of iron broad, or wide, and even, or flat, for a مِسْحَاة, or a مِعْزَق, or some other thing. (L.) And فَطَحَ بِالعَصَاظَهْرَهُ, (K, * TA,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) He struck his back with the staff, or stick. (K, * TA.) And فَطَحَتْ بِالوَلَدِ, said of a woman, i. q. رَمَتْ بِهِ [She cast forth the child, or the fœtus]. (K, TA.) [Compare طَفَحَتْ.] -A2- فَطِحَ, aor. فَطَحَ , inf. n. فَطَحٌ, [app., He (a man) had a broad, or wide, head: (see أَفْطَحُ:) or it signifies, or signifies likewise, and so app. ↓ فُطِّحَ, inf. n. تفْطِيحٌ, (see فَطَحٌ below, and أَفْطَحُ,)] said of the head, and of the end of the nose, It was, or became, broad, or wide. (TK.) -A3- فَطِحَ النَّخْلُ The palm-trees became fecundated. (Kr, K.)

A man having a broad, or wide, head. (S.) And A broad, or wide, head; (A, L;) as also ↓ مُفَطَّحٌ (S, A, L) and ↓ مَفْطُوحٌ. (A.) And أَرْنَبَةٌ فَطْحَآءُ A broad, or wide, end of a nose: (A, L:) and so قَدَمٌ [i. e. foot]. (A.) الأَفْطَحُ The bull: so called because of the breadth of the end of his nose: (L, K:) an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (L.) And The chameleon (K, TA) whose back and colour the sun makes to glisten so that it becomes white by reason of the heat thereof. (TA.) And الفَطْحَآءُ The broad, or wide, part of a bow. (L.) -A2- Also i. q. أَفْدَعُ [q. v.]. (K.)

[inf. n. of فَطِحَ, q. v.: and, as a simple subst.,] Breadth, or width, of the head, (S, K, TA,) in the middle; as also تَفْطِيحٌ: (TA:) and breadth, or width, of the end of the nose, (L, K,) so that it sticks close to the face; as in the bull, which is termed أَفْطَحُ. (L.)

A she-camel bulky in the belly, (K, TA,) broad, or wide, in the ribs. (TA.)