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▪ ĭnḥiṭāṭ is the vn. of ĭnḥaṭṭa, vb. VII, ʻ1 to sink, descend, go down; 2 to decrease, diminish; 3 to decline, decay, wane’, the N-stem of ↗ḥaṭṭa, vb. I, ʻto put\set\take down’.
▪ For the Arab modernist movement of the Nahḍaẗ and its successors in the 20^th century, ↗ĭnḥiṭāṭ became the (in)famous denominator of the whole period spanning between the Islamicate ʻGolden Age’ and the new ʻUpswing’ (↗nahḍaẗ) as the ʻEra of Decline’, ʕaṣr al-ĭnḥiṭāṭ.
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cogn

▪ ↗ḥaṭṭa.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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►ʔiḥsās al- ĭnḥiṭāṭ, n., sense of inferiority

►ĭnḥaṭṭa, vb.VII, 1 to sink, descend, go down; 2 to decrease, diminish; 3 to decline, decay, wane: N-stem, intr.
►ʔaḥaṭṭᵘ, adj., lower: elat. formation, serving as comp./superlat. of munḥaṭṭ.
►ĭnḥiṭāṭī, n., postclassical writer: nisba formation, from ĭnḥiṭāṭ
►munḥaṭṭ, adj., 1 low, base, low-level, lowgrade; 2 fallen, degraded (woman); 3 mean, vile, vulgar; 4 inferior: PA VII.

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ḥaṭṭa, ↗ḥiṭṭaẗ, ↗ḥaṭāṭaẗ, ↗maḥaṭṭaẗ, and, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ ḤṬː (ḤṬṬ).

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