discourage, frustrate

, aor. , [inf. n., accord. to rule, ثَبْطٌ,] (K,) or, as Sgh says, [judging from the part. n. ثَبِطٌ,] thus analogy requires that it should be, (TA,) He was, or became, stupid in his work, or action; and weak: and he (a man, and a horse, K and TA, said of a horse with respect to covering, TA) was, or became, heavy, sluggish, or slow. (K, * TA.) -A2- See also 2, in two places.

, (Lth, IDrd, S, Msb, K,) or الشَّىْءِ, (TA,) inf. n. تَثْبِيطٌ, (S, Msb,) He hindered him, withheld him, or prevented him, (IDrd, Msb, K, TA,) and retarded him, (IDrd, K, TA,) from doing the affair, or thing; (IDrd, Msb, K, TA;) as also ↓ ثَبَطَهُ: (IDrd, K:) he diverted him from it, by occupying him otherwise: (Lth, S, Msb:) or he prevented him from doing it by inducing him to be cowardly and weak-hearted: (Msb:) or تثبيط signifies one's turning a man back, or away, from a thing that he would do: (Aboo-Is- hák:) or one's intervening as an obstacle between a man and a thing that he desires. (TA.) The verb occurs in the Kur ix. 46. (TA.) ― -b2- ثبّطهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ, inf. n. as above, He made him to pause, or wait, at the thing, or affair; (TA;) as also عَلَيْهِ ↓ ثَبَطَهُ, (K, * TA,) inf. n. ثَبْطٌ; (TA;) syn. وَقَّفَهُ عَلَيْهِ [which here has the meaning assigned to it above, as is shown by the explanation of the quasi-pass. تَثَبَّطَ immediately following in the K: in the CK, we find, erroneously, وَقَفَ عليه]. (K, TA.)

The disease scarcely, or never, quitted him. (S, K.)

[quasi-pass. of 2, He became hindered, withheld, or prevented, &c.; عَنِ الأَمْرِ from the affair, or thing. This signification and that next following are well known. ― -b2- ] He paused, or waited; [عَلَى الأَمْرِ at the thing, or affair; as is implied in the K and TA;] syn. تَوَقَّفَ. (K, TA.)

I held back, or hung back, from the affair, or thing, relinquishing it. (TA.)

Stupid in his work, or action; and weak: heavy, sluggish, or slow; applied to a man, and to a horse; (K;) to the latter, with respect to covering: (TA:) and a man who will not move from his place: (TA:) fem. with ة: (K:) and pl. [of pauc.] أَثْبَاطٌ and [of mult.] ثِبَاطٌ, (K,) and, applied to men, ثَبِطُونَ also. (TA.)