أبطل

Compare Ge'ez አብጠለ (ʾäbṭälä) with the same meaning except the modern ones.

• IPA^(key): /ʔab.tˤa.la/

أَبْطَلَ • (ʔabṭala) IV (non-past يُبْطِلُ (yubṭilu), verbal noun إِبْطَال (ʔibṭāl))

1. to prove false, to disprove

   Antonym: أَحَقَّ (ʔaḥaqqa)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 8:8:

     لِيُحِقَّ الْحَقَّ وَيُبْطِلَ الْبَاطِلَ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُجْرِمُونَ

     liyuḥiqqa l-ḥaqqa wayubṭila l-bāṭila walaw kariha l-mujrimūna

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to nullify, to invalidate, to render ineffective, to rescind, to repeal, to revoke
3. to defuse, to shut down, to extinguish, to deactivate, to neutralize
4. to defeat, to render futile, to quash, to foil, to frustrate, to thwart
5. (intransitive) to assert a falsehood, to be wrong
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 40:78:

     فَإِذَا جَاءَ أَمْرُ اللَّهِ قُضِيَ بِالْحَقِّ وَخَسِرَ هُنَالِكَ الْمُبْطِلُونَ

     faʔiḏā jāʔa ʔamru l-lahi quḍiya bi-l-ḥaqqi waḵasira hunālika al-mubṭilūna

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

أبطل (form I)

1. أَبْطُلُ (ʔabṭulu) /ʔab.tˤu.lu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of بَطُلَ (baṭula) and بَطَلَ (baṭala)
2. أَبْطُلَ (ʔabṭula) /ʔab.tˤu.la/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of بَطُلَ (baṭula) and بَطَلَ (baṭala)
3. أَبْطُلْ (ʔabṭul) /ʔab.tˤul/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of بَطُلَ (baṭula) and بَطَلَ (baṭala)

Learned borrowing from Arabic أَبْطَلَ (ʔabṭala).

• IPA^(key): /ʔab.tˤal/,

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أبطل • (ʔabṭal) IV (present ببطل (bibṭel))

1. to neutralize, to dismantle, to disarm