# Ha-Ta-Ta — حطط (HTT)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/HTT

- **Meaning:** To put down (a burden), leave off, lower. To put something down from a high to a lower place, to alight or alight and abode in a place, throw a thing down, pay a thing down (namely money), make a thing descend or go down/downwards/down a declivity from above to below, lower or degrade a person, abate of a thing much, make a large abatement of a thing, abate someone of a debt, remove or skim off from a thing, to be abated, to be low or cheap (price), to be quick in pace, vehement running, launch forth into a thing, to press on in, polish or smooth the skin and figure or decorate it, rule or make lines upon a thing, to be put down, descend, go down or downwards, go from above to below, to be lowered or degraded, go back or backward, go away, perish, ask/demand/desire abatement from a person.
- **Derived forms:** حِطَّة (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 58

- **Form in this verse:** حِطَّةٌۭ — ḥiṭṭatun · "Repentance"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · nominative case · indefinite

وَاِذْ قُلْنَا ادْخُلُوا هٰذِهِ الْقَرْيَةَ فَكُلُوا مِنْهَا حَيْثُ شِئْتُمْ رَغَداً وَادْخُلُوا الْبَابَ سُجَّداً وَقُولُوا حِطَّةٌ نَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ خَطَايَاكُمْۜ وَسَنَز۪يدُ الْمُحْسِن۪ينَ

Wa-ith qulna odkhuloo hathihialqaryata fakuloo minha haythu shi/tum raghadan wadkhulooalbaba sujjadan waqooloo hittatun naghfirlakum khatayakum wasanazeedu almuhsineen

And when We said: “Enter this city, and eat freely of it wheresoever you will. And enter the gate in submission, and say: ‘A mitigation!’ We will forgive you your offences, and will increase the doers of good.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-58.md_

### 7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 161

- **Form in this verse:** حِطَّةٌۭ — ḥiṭṭatun · "Repentance"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · nominative case · indefinite

وَاِذْ ق۪يلَ لَهُمُ اسْكُنُوا هٰذِهِ الْقَرْيَةَ وَكُلُوا مِنْهَا حَيْثُ شِئْتُمْ وَقُولُوا حِطَّةٌ وَادْخُلُوا الْبَابَ سُجَّداً نَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ خَط۪ٓيـَٔاتِكُمْۜ سَنَز۪يدُ الْمُحْسِن۪ينَ

Wa-ith qeela lahumu oskunoo hathihialqaryata wakuloo minha haythu shi/tum waqooloo hittatunwadkhuloo albaba sujjadan naghfir lakum khatee-atikumsanazeedu almuhsineen

And when it was said to them: “Dwell in this city, and eat of it wheresoever you will; and say: ‘A mitigation!’ And enter the gate in submission; We will forgive you your offences. We will increase the doers of good.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-161.md_

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