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بطء

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of slowness, delay, and tardiness. It contrasts with speed and encompasses various nuances of being slow, causing delay, or experiencing a delay.

Derived headwords

بَطْءnoun
  1. 1.
    slownessboth

    The state or quality of being slow; the opposite of speed.

بَطُؤَverb
  1. 1.
    he was slow: so he is slowboth

    he was slow: so he is slow

أَبْطَأَverb
  1. 1.
    he delayed: so he is a delayerboth

    he delayed: so he is a delayer

بَطِيءadjective
  1. 1.
    slowboth

    Moving or acting with little speed; not quick.

اِسْتَبْطَأَverb
  1. 1.
    to find slowboth

    To consider something or someone to be slow or delayed.

  2. 2.
    to delayboth

    To cause a delay or to be delayed.

بَطَّأَverb
  1. 1.
    you: meaning 'what delayed you'both

    you: meaning 'what delayed you'

تَبَاطَأَverb
  1. 1.
    he slowed down in his walkboth

    he slowed down in his walk

بَطْآنnoun
  1. 1.
    the girth that is placed under the camel's bellyboth

    the girth that is placed under the camel's belly

بِطَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    slow (of animals)classical

    Describing animals that are slow, often referring to their pace or movement.

Parallel reading

البطء: نقيض السرعة.
Slowness: the opposite of speed.
بطؤ مجيئك
Your coming was slow.
أبطأت فأنت بطئ
You delayed, and you are slow.
وقد استبطأتك
And I considered you slow.
ويقال: ما أبطأ بك
And it is said: What made you slow?
وما بطأ بك بل، بمعنى.
And what made you slow, rather, meaning the same.
تباطأ الرجل في مسيره.
The man delayed in his journey.
ويقال: بطآن ذا خروجا
And it is said: How slow to go out!
أي بطؤ ذا خروجا
Meaning: slow to go out.
فجعلت الفتحة التى في بطؤ على نون بطآن، حين أدت عنه، لتكون علما لها، ونقلت ضمة الطاء إلى الباء، وإنما صح فيه النقل لان معناه التعجب، أي ما أبطأه.
So the vowel (fatḥa) that was in 'baṭu' was placed on the 'nūn' of 'baṭ'ān', when it substituted for it, to be a marker for it. And the ḍamma of the ṭā' was transferred to the bā'. The transfer was valid because its meaning is exclamation, i.e., 'How slow it is!'
أبطأ القوم، إذا كانت دوابهم بطاء.
The people were slow, if their mounts were slow.