Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

بَطَّ, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَبْطُطُ}, inf. n. بَطٌّ, (Mgh, Mṣb,) He slit a wound, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) or an ulcer, (Ṣ,) and a purse, (Ḳ,), &c. (TA.) [See also R. Q. 1.]

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

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

ضَرَبَهُ فَبَطْبَطَهُ He struck him and clave his skin, or his head. (TA.) [See 1.]

See also بَطْبَطَةٌ, below.

بَطٌّ A kind of water-fowl; (Ṣ, O, Mṣb;) [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, (Ḳ, 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, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) which is applied to the male and to the female, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) like حَمَامَةٌ and دَجَاجَةٌ: (Ṣ:) pl. بِطَاطٌ. (TA.)

بَطَّةٌ n. un. of بَطٌّ, q. v.

Also A kind of bottle, or pot, of glass; syn. دَبَّةٌ; (Ḳ, 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; (Ḳ;) [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.)

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

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

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