Jastrow: פָּחוּת

פָּחוּת m. (פָּחַת) [diminished,] 1) a small quantity. Y. Dem. I, 21ᵈ bot. פְּחוּת מאכל (not מאוכל) a small quantity of food (corresp. to ib. I, 2 מעוטו). —2) (adj. a. adv.) lesser, less. Men. XI, 9 אין פ׳ משנים no less than two days (after being baked); ib. אין פ׳ מתשעה ולא יתר וכ׳ no less than nine days, nor more than eleven; Pes. 47ᵃ לא פ׳ ולא יותר no less (than nine), nor more (than eleven). Meg. 21ᵇ אין משיירין בפרשה פ׳ וכ׳ in distributing the readings of a Scriptural portion we must leave for the last reader no less than three verses; a. v. fr.—Fem. פְּחוּתָה. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. XI, 1 ערבה שהיא פ׳ וכ׳ a kneading trough which contains less than &c.; a. fr.—Pl. פְּחוּתוֹת. Keth. I, 2 פ׳ מבנות שלש וכ׳ when they were less than three years and one day old; a. fr. —3) inferior. Tanḥ. T’rum. 7 נחשת כנגד … שהיא פ׳ מכולם ‘copper’ (Ex. XXV, 3) corresponding to the Greek (Syrian) empire, which was the meanest of all of them; a. fr.