بط

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See also: ب.ظ

Arabic

Etymology 1

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

    Noun

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

    1. (collective) duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae); ducks
    Declension
    Descendants
    • 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

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

    Verb

    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.
    Conjugation

    Noun

    بَطّ (baṭṭm

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

    References

    • 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 (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 (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 134
    • Lane, Edward William (1863) “بط”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 215

    South Levantine Arabic

    Etymology

    From Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ).

    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

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

    1. (collective) ducks