abtar

amputee, defective

أَبْتَر

Word

Noun · pattern أَفْعَل

Root

ب ت ر

Forms

Plural
بُتْر

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إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ الْأَبْتَرُ

The Qurʾān, page 602 →

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • بَتَرَ Form I He cut, or cut off
    , (T, S, M, &c.,) aor , (M, Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. بَتْرٌ; (T, S, M, &c.;) and ↓ ابتر; (T;) He cut, or cut off, a thing before it was complete: (S, A, L, Msb:) or he cut, or cut off, (M, Mgh, K,) in any manner: (M:) or he cut off (a tail or the like, T) entirely, or utterly. (Aboo-Is-hák, T, M, K.) ― -b2- بَتَرَهُ, (K,) aor. and inf. n. as above; (TA;) or ↓ ابترهُ; (M, L;) He cut off his tail: (K:) or he cut, or amputated, his tail in any place. (M, L.) ― -b3- بَتَرَ رَحِمَهُ, (M,) aor. as above, (M, K,) and so the inf. n., (M,) (assumed tropical:) He cut, or severed, the ties, or bonds, of his relationship; he disunited himself from his relations. (M, K. *) -A2- بَتِرَ, aor. , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. بَتَرٌ, (S, Msb,) He (any beast, M) had his tail cut off: (S, Msb, K:) or [had either the whole or a part of his tail cut off;] had his tail cut, or amputated, in any place. (M.)
  • أَبْتَرَ Form IV He made him to be. or become, أَبْتَر
    see 1, in two places. ― -b2- [Hence,] ابترهُ said of God, He made him to be. or become, أَبْتَر, (S, K,) i. e., without offspring, or progeny. (TA.)
  • تَبَتَّرَ Form V Open entry
    see 7.
  • انبتر Form VII became cut, or cut off
    It (a tail or the like, T) became cut, or cut off, (T, S, M, K, TA,) in any place, (M,) or entirely; (T, M;) and ↓ تبتّر signifies the same. (TA.)
  • بُتَارٌ Open entry
    : see بَاتِرٌ
  • بَتُورٌ Open entry
    : see بَاتِرٌ
  • بُتَيْرَآءُ Open entry
    : see أَبْتَرُ.
  • بتّارٌَ Open entry
    : see بَاتِرٌ
  • بَاتِرٌ cutting, or sharp
    A cutting, or sharp, sword; (T, S, M, K;) as also ↓ بَتَّارٌ (T, M, K) and ↓ بَتُورٌ (M) and ↓ بَتَارٌ. (K.) [But all of these except the first are app. intensive epithets, signifying very sharp.] ― -b2- See also أُبَاتِرٌ.
  • أَبْتَرُ cut off entirely
    A tail cut off entirely. (T, L.) ― -b2- Any beast (M) having the tail cut off: (T, S, A, Msb, K:) or [having either the whole or a part of the tail cut off;] having the tail cut, or amputated, in any place: (M:) fem. بَتْرَآءُ; with which ↓ مَبْتُورَةٌ is syn.: (Mgh, Msb:) pl. بُتْرٌ. (A, Msb.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) A certain malignant, or noxious, serpent: (K:) or a short-tailed serpent: (Mgh; and EdDurr en-Netheer, an abridgment of the Nh of IAth, by El-Jelál:) or a certain species of blue serpent, having its tail [as it were] cut off, which none in a state of pregnancy sees without casting her burden: (ISh:) or the kind of serpent called شَيْطَان, having a short tail: no one sees it without fleeing from it, and no one in a state of pregnancy beholds it without casting her young: it is thus called only because of the shortness of its tail, as thought its tail were cut off. (M.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) A leathern water-bag, and a bucket, having no loop. (M, K.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) Defective, deficient, incomplete, or imperfect. (Mgh.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) In want, or poor. (M, K.) ― -b7- (assumed tropical:) Suffering loss; syn. خَاسِرٌ. (M, K.) ― -b8- (assumed tropical:) One from whom all good, or prosperity, is cut off. (M.) ― -b9- (assumed tropical:) Having no offspring, or progeny; (Aboo-Is-hák, T, S, M, IAth, K;) as also ↓ أُبَاتِرٌ (M, K) and ↓ مُنْبَتِرٌ. (IAth.) [The dim., ↓ أُبَيْتِرُ, occurs in a trad., in this sense, or in some other sense implying contempt.] ― -b10- (assumed tropical:) Anything cut off, (K,) or anything of which the effect is cut off, (S,) from good, or prosperity. (S, K.) [See an ex. in a trad. cited voce بَالٌ.] ― -b11- خُطْبَةٌ بَتْرَآءُ (assumed tropical:) A خطبة [q. v.] in which the speaker does not praise God nor bless the Prophet: (S, A, K:) particularly applied to a certain خطبة of Ziyád. (S, A.) ― -b12- رَكْعَةٌ بَتْرَآءُ, (TA,) and [its dim.] ↓ بُتَيْرَآءُ, (S, TA,) (assumed tropical:) A single ركعة [q. v.] performed instead of the complete performance of the prayer called الوِتْر: or a ركعة cut short, or cut off, after the completion of one ركعة, when both were to have been performed. (TA.) ― -b13- الأَبْتَرَانِ (assumed tropical:) The ass (العَيْرُ) and the slave: (ISK, S, A, K:) so called because of the little good that is in them: (ISk, S:) each is called الأَبْتَرُ. (K.)
  • أُبَاتِرٌ Short
    (assumed tropical:) Short; (M, K;) as though cut off from completion. (M.) ― -b2- See also أَبْتَرُ. ― -b3- Also (assumed tropical:) A man who cuts, or severs, the ties, or bonds, of his relationship; who disunites himself from his relations; (S, M, K;) as also ↓ بَاتِرٌ; (A:) or quick to cut, or sever, the ties, or bonds, between him and his friend. (IAar.)
  • أُبَيْتِرُ Open entry
    : see أَبْتَرُ.

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