See also: ب.ظ

Arabic

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Etymology 1

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    A wanderwort. See Old Armenian բադ (bad, duck).

    Noun

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    بَطّ (baṭṭm (collective, singulative بَطَّة f (baṭṭa))

    1. (collective) duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae); ducks
    Declension
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    Descendants
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    • South Levantine Arabic: بَطّ
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: pato
      • Fala: patu
      • Galician: pato
      • Portuguese: pato (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Spanish: pato
    • Salar: bad
    • Swahili: bata

    Etymology 2

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    Compare بَتَّ (batta), بَضَعَ (baḍaʕa) and بَتَرَ (batara).

    Verb

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    بَطَّ (baṭṭa) I (non-past يَبُطُّ (yabuṭṭu), verbal noun بَطّ (baṭṭ))

    1. (transitive) to slit, to rive
      • 7th century CE, Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik, section 20:
        وَلَا بَأْسَ أَنْ يَبُطَّ الْمُحْرِمُ خُرَاجَهُ وَيَفْقَأَ دُمَّلَهُ وَيَقْطَعَ عِرْقَهُ إِذَا ٱحْتَاجَ إِلَى ذٰلِكَ
        walā baʔsa ʔan yabuṭṭa l-muḥrimu ḵurāja-hū wayafqaʔa dummala-hū wayaqṭaʕa ʕirqa-hū ʔiḏā ḥtāja ʔilā ḏālika
        And the pilgrim may slit his sores, crack his boils, and cut his veins if he needs to do so.
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    Noun

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    بَطّ (baṭṭm

    1. verbal noun of بَطَّ (baṭṭa) (form I)
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    References

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    • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 117
    • Freytag, Georg (1830) “بط”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 129
    • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “بط”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 134
    • Lane, Edward William (1863) “بط”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 215

    South Levantine Arabic

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    Etymology

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    From Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ).

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /batˤtˤ/, [bɑtˤ]
    • Audio (Ramallah):(file)

    Noun

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    بطّ (baṭṭm (collective, singulative بطة f (baṭṭa), paucal بطات (baṭṭāt))

    1. (collective) ducks
      NODES
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