plain, flat

, aor. , (Msb, TA,) inf. n. بَطْحٌ, (Mgh, TA,) He spread it; spread it out, or forth; expanded it; extended it. (Mgh, * Msb, TA.) ― -b2- Also, (S, A, K,) or بَطَحَهُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ, (Mgh, Msb,) aor. as above, (K,) and so the inf. n., (TA,) He threw him down upon his face. (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K.) ― -b3- See also 2.

, (TA,) inf. n. تَبْطِيحٌ; (K;) and ↓ ابطحهُ; (TA;) He strewed pebbles in the mosque, and made it plain, or level [in its ground, or floor]: (K, TA:) and بَطْحُهُ, [inf. n. of ↓ بَطَحَهُ,] occurring in a trad., also signifies the making it plain, or level. (TA.)

see 2.

: see 7. ― -b2- Also It (a torrent) flowed widely: (ISd, A:) or spread widely in the بَطْحَآء. (S, K.) ― -b3- Also, [and ↓ انبطح,] It (a place &c.) spread; spread out, or forth; became expanded or extended. (TA.) -A2- And i. q. اِنْتَصَبَ [It became set up or upright, erected, &c.: thus the verb bears two contr. significations]. (TA.) -A3- Also He (a man) took the أَبْطَح as a place of abode. (A, TA.)

It (water) went to the right and left in a place. (AA.) ― -b2- See also 5. ― -b3- He became thrown down upon his face: (S, A, K:) or he lay, or lay as though thrown down or extended, upon his face: (Mgh, Msb:) or he stretched himself; or lay, and stretched himself; upon his face, extended upon the ground; as also ↓ تبطّح. (TA.) ― -b4- It (a valley) became wide; (K, TA;) as also ↓ استبح. (TA.)

see 7.

: see أَبْطَحُ, in two places.

The stature of a man [app. in a lying posture]: as in the phrase هُوَ بَطْحَةٌ رَجُلٍ [It is of the stature of a man]. (K.) ― -b2- بَيْنَهُمَا بَطْحَةٌ بَعِيدَةٌ Between them two is a far-extending distance or space or interval. (L.) ― -b3- See also أَبْطَحُ.

: see أَبْطَحُ, in four places.

[Many wide water-courses in which are fine, or minute, or broken, pebbles: the former word is pl. of أَبْطَحُ or of بَطْحَآءُ]: a phrase like أَعْوَامٌ عُوَّمٌ. (As, A 'Obeyd, S.)

: see أَبْطَحُ.

applied to a man, i. q. ↓ مُنْبَطِحٌ [part. n. of 7, q. v.]. (Ham p. 244.)