مَوْتٌ

1.
(and مَوَتَانٌ, TA,) Death; lifelessness; opposite of حَيَاةٌ: (S, TA:) as also مُوَاتٌ, (S, K,) and مَمَاتٌ. [Occurring in the Qur'an, 6:163, xvii. 77, and xlv. 20,] (S, * TA, in article حى, and Jel, in vi. 163.) [See also مُوتَانٌ, below: and see 1.] Or مَوَتَانٌ, signifies much death, like as حَيَوَانٌ signifies much life. (Msb, in article حى.)
2.
المَوْتُ الأَبْيَضُ, and الجَارِفُ, and اللَّافِتُ, and الفَاتِلُ, Sudden death. (IAar, in T and TA, article فلت.)
3.
المَوْتُ الأَحْمَرُ Death by slaughter with the sword. (IAar, in T, TA, article فلت.)
4.
المَوْتُ الأَسْوَدُ Death by drowning, and by suffocation. (IAar, in T and TA, article فلت.)
5.
بَنَاتُ المَوْتِ (assumed tropical:) [The daughters of death;] meaning deadly arrows. (A, TA, voce جَعْبَةٌ, q. v.)

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