Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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ثبر ثبط ثبن


1. ⇒ ثبط

ثَبِطَ, aor. ـَ {يَثْبَطُ} [inf. n., accord. to rule, ثَبْطٌ,] (Ḳ,) or, as Ṣgh says, [judging from the part. n. ثَبِطٌ,] thus analogy requires that it should be, (TA,) He was, or became, stupid in his work, or action; and weak: and he (a man, and a horse, Ḳ and TA, said of a horse with respect to covering, TA) was, or became, heavy, sluggish, or slow. (Ḳ,* TA.)

Root: ثبط - Entry: 1. Dissociation: B

See also 2, in two places.


2. ⇒ ثبّط

ثبّطهُ عَنِ الأَمْرِ, (Lth, IDrd, Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) or الشَّىْءِ, (TA,) inf. n. تَثْبِيطٌ, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) He hindered him, withheld him, or prevented him, (IDrd, Mṣb, Ḳ, TA,) and retarded him, (IDrd, Ḳ, TA,) from doing the affair, or thing; (IDrd, Mṣb, Ḳ, TA;) as alsoثَبَطَهُ↓: (IDrd, Ḳ:) he diverted him from it, by occupying him otherwise: (Lth, Ṣ, Mṣb:) or he prevented him from doing it by inducing him to be cowardly and weak-hearted: (Mṣb:) or تثبيط signifies one's turning a man back, or away, from a thing that he would do: (Aboo-Is- hák:) or one's intervening as an obstacle between a man and a thing that he desires. (TA.) The verb occurs in the Ḳur ix. 46. (TA.)

Root: ثبط - Entry: 2. Signification: A2

ثبّطهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ, inf. n. as above, He made him to pause, or wait, at the thing, or affair; (TA;) as alsoثَبَطَهُ↓ عَلَيْهِ, (Ḳ,* TA,) inf. n. ثَبْطٌ; (TA;) syn. وَقَّفَهُ عَلَيْهِ [which here has the meaning assigned to it above, as is shown by the explanation of the quasi-pass. تَثَبَّطَ immediately following in the Ḳ: in the CK, we find, erroneously, وَقَفَ عليه]. (Ḳ, TA.)


4. ⇒ اثبط

اثبطهُ المَرَضُ The disease scarcely, or never, quitted him. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)


5. ⇒ تثبّط

تثبّط [quasi-pass. of 2, He became hindered, withheld, or prevented,, &c.; عَنِ الأَمْرِ from the affair, or thing. This signification and that next following are well known.]

Root: ثبط - Entry: 5. Signification: A2

He paused, or waited; [عَلَى الأَمْرِ at the thing, or affair; as is implied in the Ḳ and TA;] syn. تَوَقَّفَ. (Ḳ, TA.)


Q. Q. 3. ⇒ اِثْبَأْطَطْتُ

اِثْبَأْطَطْتُ عَنِ الأَمْرِ I held back, or hung back, from the affair, or thing, relinquishing it. (TA.)


ثَبِطٌ / ثَبِطَةٌ

ثَبِطٌ Stupid in his work, or action; and weak: heavy, sluggish, or slow; applied to a man, and to a horse; (Ḳ;) to the latter, with respect to covering: (TA:) and a man who will not move from his place: (TA:) fem. with ة {ثَبِطَةٌ}: (Ḳ:) and pl. [of pauc.] أَثْبَاطٌ and [of mult.] ثِبَاطٌ, (Ḳ,) and, applied to men, ثَبِطُونَ also. (TA.)


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