تساقط

: see its variation اِسَّاقَطَ in 1; first sentence.

It fell in consecutive portions or quantities [like the leaves of a tree, &c.; by degrees; gradually]. (M, K.) A poet says,

كَنَجْمِ الثُّرَيَّا وَأَمْطَارِهَا

وَيَوْمٍ تَسَاقَطُ لَذَّاتُهُ

i. e. (assumed tropical:) [Many a day] of which the pleasures come one thing after another; [such a day being like the asterism of the Pleiades, and the pleasures thereof like its rains;] meaning the abounding of its pleasures. (TA.) And you say, تَسَاقَطَ إِلَىَّ خَيْرُ فُلَانٍ (tropical:) [The wealth of such a one fell, or came, to me, one thing after another]. (TA.)

تساقط عَلَى الشَّىٌءِ He threw himself upon the thing. (S.) You say, تساقط عَلَى الرَّجُلِ يَقِيه بِنَفْسِهِ [He threw himself upon the man, protecting him with his own person]. (TA.)