sweet potato

, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. , inf. n. بَطٌّ, (Mgh, Msb,) He slit a wound, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) or an ulcer, (S,) and a purse, (K,) &c. (TA.) [See also R. Q. 1.]

, inf. n. تَبْطِيطٌ, He trafficked in the birds called بَطّ, q. v. (K.)

, (IAar, K,) inf. n. إِبْطَاطٌ, (IAar,) He purchased [or became possessed of] a بَطَّة [q. v.] for oil, or of oil. (IAar, K.)

He struck him and clave his skin, or his head. (TA.) [See 1.] -A2- See also بَطْبَطَةٌ, below.

A kind of water-fowl; (S, O, Msb;) [the duck, or ducks; and the goose, or geese; but generally the former of these birds; agreeably with a statement in the Jm, that بَطٌّ is applied by the Arabs to the small, and إِوَزٌّ to the large;] i. q. إِوَزٌّ, (K, TA,) both the small thereof and the large: (TA:) a Persian word (عَجَمِىٌّ), arabicized; [originally بَتْ, or بَطْ, or بَطّ;] or, accord. to IJ, an imitation of its cries: n. un. بَطَّةٌ, (S, Msb, K,) which is applied to the male and to the female, (S, Msb,) like حَمَامَةٌ and دَجَاجَةٌ: (S:) pl. بِطَاطٌ. (TA.)

n. un. of بَطٌّ, q. v. ― -b2- Also A kind of bottle, or pot, of glass; syn. دَبَّةٌ; (K, TA; [in the CK, erroneously, دُبَّة;]) in the dial. of the people of Mekkeh; so called because made in the form of a living بَطَّة: (Lth, TA:) or a vessel like the [flask, or bottle, called] قَارُورَة; (K;) [a kind of leathern pot, or bottle, of which the body is nearly globular, with a short and wide neck;] in which oil &c. are put: pl. بُطَطٌ. (TA.)

A maker of بُطَط, pl. of بَطَّةٌ. (TA.)

[app. an inf. n., of which the verb is ↓ بَطْبَطَ,] The crying, or cry, of the بَطّ; (K;) after which it [the bird] is named, accord. to IJ, as mentioned above: (TA:) or its diving in water. (K.)

The مِبْضَع [or scarifying instrument] (K, TA) with which a wound is slit. (TA.)