Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

بَتَرَ, (T, Ṣ, M, &c.,) aor ـُ, (M, Mgh, Mṣb,) inf. n. بَتْرٌ; (T, Ṣ, M, &c.;) andابتر↓; (T;) He cut, or cut off, a thing before it was complete: (Ṣ, A, L, Mṣb:) or he cut, or cut off, (M, Mgh, Ḳ,) in any manner: (M:) or he cut off (a tail or the like, T) entirely, or utterly. (Aboo-Is-ḥáḳ, T, M, Ḳ.)

بَتَرَهُ, (Ḳ,) aor. and inf. n. as above; (TA;) orابترهُ↓; (M, L;) He cut off his tail: (Ḳ:) or he cut, or amputated, his tail in any place. (M, L.)

بَتَرَ رَحِمَهُ, (M,) aor. as above, (M, Ḳ,) and so the inf. n., (M,) † He cut, or severed, the ties, or bonds, of his relationship; he disunited himself from his relations. (M, Ḳ.*)

بَتِرَ, aor. ـَ {يَبْتَرُ}, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) inf. n. بَتَرٌ, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) He (any beast, M) had his tail cut off: (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ:) or [had either the whole or a part of his tail cut off;] had his tail cut, or amputated, in any place. (M.)

see 1, in two places.

[Hence,] ابترهُ said of God, He made him to be. or become, أَبْتَر, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) i. e., without offspring, or progeny. (TA.)

انبتر It (a tail or the like, T) became cut, or cut off, (T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ, TA,) in any place, (M,) or entirely; (T, M;) andتبتّر↓ signifies the same. (TA.)

بَاتِرٌ A cutting, or sharp, sword; (T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ;) as alsoبَتَّارٌ↓ (T, M, Ḳ) andبَتُورٌ↓ (M) andبَتَارٌ↓. (Ḳ.) [But all of these except the first are app. intensive epithets, signifying very sharp.]

See also أُبَاتِرٌ.

أَبْتَرُ A tail cut off entirely. (T, L.)

Any beast (M) having the tail cut off: (T, Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ:) 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, Mṣb:) pl. بُتْرٌ. (A, Mṣb.)

† A certain malignant, or noxious, serpent: (Ḳ:) or a short-tailed serpent: (Mgh; and Ed-Durr 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, Ḳ.)

† Defective, deficient, incomplete, or imperfect. (Mgh.)

† In want, or poor. (M, Ḳ.)

† Suffering loss; syn. خَاسِرٌ. (M, Ḳ.)

† One from whom all good, or prosperity, is cut off. (M.)

† Having no offspring, or progeny; (Aboo-Is-ḥáḳ, T, Ṣ, M, IAth, Ḳ;) as alsoأُبَاتِرٌ↓ (M, Ḳ) andمُنْبَتِرٌ↓. (IAth.) [The dim., أُبَيْتِرُ↓, occurs in a trad., in this sense, or in some other sense implying contempt.]

† Anything cut off, (Ḳ,) or anything of which the effect is cut off, (Ṣ,) from good, or prosperity. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) [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: (Ṣ, A, Ḳ:) particularly applied to a certain خطبة of Ziyád. (Ṣ, A.)

رَكْعَةٌ بَتْرَآءُ, (TA,) and [its dim.] بُتَيْرَآءُ↓, (Ṣ, 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, Ṣ, A, Ḳ:) so called because of the little good that is in them: (ISk, Ṣ:) each is called الأَبْتَرُ. (Ḳ.)

أُبَاتِرٌ † Short; (M, Ḳ;) as though cut off from completion. (M.)

See also أَبْتَرُ.

Also † A man who cuts, or severs, the ties, or bonds, of his relationship; who disunites himself from his relations; (Ṣ, M, Ḳ;) as alsoبَاتِرٌ↓; (A:) or quick to cut, or sever, the ties, or bonds, between him and his friend. (IAạr.)