بطء

Root entry · 15 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of slowness, delay, and tardiness, contrasting with speed and haste. It encompasses various derived forms describing the state of being slow, the act of delaying, and the characteristic of slowness.

Derived headwords

البطءnoun

1.
slownessboth
The state or quality of being slow; tardiness.
2.
delayboth
The act of causing something to be late or happen later than expected.

الإبطاءnoun

1.
delayingboth
The act of making something slow or causing it to be delayed.

بطؤverb

1.
to be slowboth
To move or act with little speed; to be tardy.

بطؤ مجيئك — Your coming was slow.

يبطؤverb

1.
to be slowboth
Present tense of the verb meaning to be slow or tardy.

بطؤ في مشيه يبطؤ — He was slow in his walking, he is slow.

بطأnoun

1.
slownessboth
A masdar (verbal noun) indicating the state of being slow.

بطاءadjective

1.
slowboth
Characterized by slowness; tardy.

أبطأverb

1.
to delayboth
To make slow; to cause to be late or delayed.
2.
to be delayedboth
To become slow or late.

تباطأverb

1.
to delay oneselfboth
To deliberately act slowly or cause oneself to be delayed.
2.
to lag behindboth
To fall behind others in progress or speed.

بطيءadjective

1.
slowboth
Moving or acting with little speed; not quick.

بطاءnoun

1.
slow onesboth
Plural of 'بطيء', referring to slow individuals or things.

استبطأverb

1.
to consider slowboth
To deem something or someone as slow or delayed.

بطّأverb

1.
to delayboth
To make something or someone slow; to hinder or impede.

بطآنnoun

1.
slownessclassical
A noun used to express slowness, similar to 'سرعان' (speediness).
2.
how slow!classical
An expression of exclamation or wonder at slowness.

باطئةnoun

1.
wine vesselclassical
A container used for making or holding wine; a fermenter.

البواطئnoun

1.
wine vesselsclassical
Plural of 'باطئة', referring to multiple containers for wine.

Parallel reading

البطء والإبطاء: نقيض الإسراع.

Slowness and delaying: the opposite of hastening.

بطؤ مجيئك وبطؤ في مشيه يبطؤ بطأ وبطاء، وأبطأ، وتباطأ، وهو بطيء، ولا تقل: أبطيت، والجمع بطاء؛

Your coming was slow, and he was slow in his walking, he is slow (بطأ وبطاء), and he hastened (أبطأ), and he delayed himself (تباطأ), and he is slow (بطيء), and do not say: I was late (أبطيت), and the plural is (بطاء);

فضل الجياد على الخيل البطاء،

The superiority of fine horses over slow horses,

ومننه الإبطاء والتباطؤ.

And from it are delaying (الإبطاء) and delaying oneself (التباطؤ).

وقد استبطأ وأبطأ الرجل: إذا كانت دوابه بطاء،

And the man considered slow (استبطأ) and delayed (أبطأ): if his mounts were slow (بطاء),

وكذلك أبطأ القوم: إذا كانت دوابهم بطاء.

And likewise the people delayed (أبطأ): if their mounts were slow (بطاء).

من بطأ به عمله لم ينفعه نسبه

Whoever is delayed by his deeds, his lineage will not benefit him

أي من أخره عمله السيء أو تفريطه في العمل الصالح لم ينفعه في الآخرة شرف النسب.

Meaning, whoever his bad deeds or his negligence in good deeds delayed him, the honor of lineage will not benefit him in the hereafter.

وأبطأ عليه الأمر: تأخر.

And the matter was delayed for him (أبطأ عليه): it was late.

وبطأ عليه بالأمر وأبطأ به، كلاهما: أخره.

And he delayed him with the matter (بطأ عليه بالأمر) and he delayed him with it (أبطأ به), both mean: he delayed it.

وبطأ فلان بفلان: إذا ثبطه عن أمر عزم عليه.

And so-and-so hindered so-and-so (بطأ فلان بفلان): if he deterred him from a matter he had resolved upon.

وما أبطأ بك وبطأ بك عنا، بمعنى، أي ما أبطأ

And what made you slow (أبطأ بك) and what delayed you (بطأ بك) from us, meaning the same, i.e., what made you slow

تباطأ الرجل في مسيره.

The man delayed himself in his journey.

وهم العشيرة أن يبطئ حاسد،

And they are the clan, that an envier would be slow,

بطآن ما يكون ذلك

How slow that may be

بطآن ذا خروجا: أي بطؤ ذا خروجا،

How slow that is to go out: meaning, he was slow to go out,

الباطئة: الناجود.

The fermenter: the wine-maker.

وهو الذي يجعل فيه الشراب، وجمعه البواطئ،

And it is that in which the drink is made, and its plural is (البواطئ),