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Form 1بَتَرَ4 senses · 2 main

muḍāriʿـُيَفْعُلُ·ـَيَفْعَلُmaṣdarبَتْرٌ بَتَرٌ

Core sense — he cut it off; he cut off his tail; he cut ties of kinshipgenerated

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He cut, or cut off, a thing before it was complete; or he cut it off in any manner; or he cut off a tail or the like entirely. Aboo-Is-hák.

Muḍāriʿ بَتُرَ; maṣdar بَتْرٌ and ابتر.

1.1.1he cut off his tail; or he cut his tail in any place—بَتَرَهُ

Muḍāriʿ and maṣdar as above; the verb also occurs as ابترهُ.

1.1.2figurative · مجاز — inferredhe cut the ties of his relationship; he cut himself off from his relations—بَتَرَ رَحِمَهُ

Muḍāriʿ and maṣdar as above.

1.2he (any beast) had his tail cut off, or had his tail cut in any place—بَتِرَ

[Or had either the whole or a part of his tail cut off.]

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, (T, S, M, &c.,) aor بَتُرَ , (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.) 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.) بَتَرَ رَحِمَهُ , (M,) aor. as above, (M, K,) and so the inf. n., (M,) He cut, or severed, the ties, or bonds, of his relationship; he disunited himself from his relations. (M, K. *) بَتِرَ , aor. بَتَرَ , (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.)

Form 4أَبْتَرَ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — he cut it off; he made him to be without offspringgenerated

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See form 1, in two places.

4.1.1He made him to be, or become, without offspring—ابترهُ

Said of God: [hence] He made him أَبْتَر, that is, without offspring or progeny.

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see 1, in two places. [Hence,] ابترهُ said of God, He made him to be. or become, أَبْتَر , (S, K,) i. e., without offspring, or progeny. (TA.)

Form 5تَبَتَّرَ1 sense

Core sense — it became cut off, it became severedgenerated

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See form 7.

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see 7.

Form 7انبتر1 sense

Core sense — it became cut off, said of a tail or the likegenerated

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It (a tail or the like) became cut, or cut off, in any place, or entirely; تبتّر means the same.

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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.)

Derived nouns 10

Nounبُتَارٌ1 sense

Core sense — a very sharp swordgenerated

See بَاتِرٌ.

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: see بَاتِرٌ

Nounبَتُورٌ1 sense

Core sense — a very sharp swordgenerated

See بَاتِرٌ.

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: see بَاتِرٌ

Nounبُتَيْرَآءُ1 sense

Core sense — having the tail cut off, said of a female beastgenerated

See أَبْتَرُ.

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: see أَبْتَرُ .

Nounبتّارٌَ1 sense

Core sense — a very sharp swordgenerated

See بَاتِرٌ.

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: see بَاتِرٌ

Nounبَاتِرٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — a cutting, or sharp, swordgenerated

A cutting, or sharp, sword; also بَتَّارٌ, بَتُورٌ, and بَتَارٌ.

[But all of these except the first are app. intensive adjectives, signifying very sharp.]

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See also أُبَاتِرٌ.

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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.] See also أُبَاتِرٌ .

Nounأَبْتَرُ13 senses · 1 main

Core sense — having the tail cut off; having no offspring; defectivegenerated

A tail cut off entirely.

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Any beast having the tail cut off; or having the tail cut in any place. [Or having either the whole or a part of the tail cut off.]

Feminine بَتْرَآءُ, with which مَبْتُورَةٌ is synonymous; plural بُتْرٌ.

1.2figurative · مجاز — inferred

A certain malignant, or harmful, serpent; or a short-tailed serpent; or a certain species of blue serpent with its tail [as it were] cut off, which no pregnant female sees without losing her burden; or the kind of serpent called شَيْطَان, having a short tail: no one sees it without fleeing from it, and no pregnant female looks at it without casting her young.

It is called this only because of the shortness of its tail, as though its tail were cut off.

1.3figurative · مجاز — inferred

A leathern water-bag, and a bucket, having no loop.

1.4figurative · مجاز — inferred

Defective, deficient, incomplete.

1.5figurative · مجاز — inferred

In want, or poor.

1.6figurative · مجاز — inferred

Suffering loss; synonymous with خَاسِرٌ.

1.7figurative · مجاز — inferred

One from whom all good, or prosperity, is cut off.

1.8figurative · مجاز — inferred

Having no offspring, or progeny. Aboo-Is-hák. أُبَاتِرٌ and مُنْبَتِرٌ mean the same.

[The dim., أُبَيْتِرُ, occurs in a trad., in this sense, or in some other sense implying contempt.]

1.9figurative · مجاز — inferred

Anything cut off, or anything whose effect is cut off, from good, or prosperity. [See an ex. in a trad. cited under بَالٌ.]

1.10figurative · مجاز — inferreda خطبة [q. v.] in which the speaker does not praise God or bless the Prophet—خُطْبَةٌ بَتْرَآءُ

Particularly applied to a certain خطبة of Ziyád.

1.11figurative · مجاز — inferreda single ركعة [q. v.] performed instead of the complete performance of the prayer called الوِتْر—رَكْعَةٌ بَتْرَآءُ

And [its dim.] بُتَيْرَآءُ has the same meaning.

Or a ركعة cut short, or cut off, after the completion of one ركعة, when both were to have been performed.

1.12figurative · مجاز — inferredthe ass and the slave—الأَبْتَرَانِ

So called because of the little good that is in them. ISK.

Each of them is called الأَبْتَرُ.

Qur’ānic occurrences أَبْتَر

108:3

إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ ٱلْأَبْتَرُ

For he who hateth thee, he will be cut off (from Future Hope).

Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.

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A tail cut off entirely. (T, L.) 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.) 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.) A leathern water-bag, and a bucket, having no loop. (M, K.) Defective, deficient, incomplete, or imperfect. (Mgh.) In want, or poor. (M, K.) Suffering loss; syn. خَاسِرٌ . (M, K.) One from whom all good, or prosperity, is cut off. (M.) 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.] 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 .] خُطْبَةٌ بَتْرَآءُ 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.) رَكْعَةٌ بَتْرَآءُ , (TA,) and [its dim.] بُتَيْرَآءُ , (S, TA,) 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.) الأَبْتَرَانِ 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.)

Nounأُبَاتِرٌ3 senses · 1 main

Core sense — short, as though cut off; one who cuts himself off from his relationsgenerated

1figurative · مجاز — inferred

Short; as though cut off before completion.

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