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بطّأبِهِ [and بطّأهُ , inf. n. as below, It made him slow, tardy, dilatory, late, or backward;] it kept him, or held him, back; or put him back, or backward. (TA.) It is said in a trad., مَنْ بَطَّأَ بِهِ عَمَلُهُ لَمْ يُسْرِعْ بِهِ نَسَبُهُ Him whom his evil deeds keep, or hold, back, or put back, or backward, his nobility of lineage will not profit, [or advance, or put forward,] in the life to come, or in the world to come. (TA.) بِكَ ↓ مَا أَبْطَأَ and مَا بَطَّأَ signify the same [What made thee, or hath made thee, slow? &c.]; (S, TA;) and so مَا بَطَّأَكَ . (TA.) And you say, بَطَّأَ عَلَيْهِ بِالأَمْرِ , inf. n. تَبْطِىْءٌ ; and بِهِ ↓ ابطأ ; He delayed to him [the doing of] the thing, or affair. (K.)

أَبْطَاَ see 1 and 2; each in two places. ― -b2- أَبْطَوءُوا Their beasts on which they rode were, or became, slow. (AZ, S, K.) ― -b3- مَا أَبْطَأَهُ How slow, or tardy, &c., is [he, or] it! (S.)

تباطأ [accord. to general analogy, He feigned, or affected, to be slow, tardy, &c.: or] he was slow, or sluggish; or he made delay; in going, or pace: and he held back from work, or action. (KL.) You say of a man, تباطأ فِى مَسِيرِهِ [He feigned, or affected, to be slow, &c., in his going, course, or pace]. (S.)

استبطأهُ (S, TA) He deemed him, or reckoned him, slow, tardy, &c. (KL.) You say, كَتَبَ اـِلَىَّ يَسْتَبْطِيءُنِى [He wrote to me, deeming me, or reckoning me, slow, &c.]. (TA.)

بُطْءٌ بطء inf. n. of 1. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- One says, in the dial. of Benoo-Yarbooa, (TA,) لَمْ أَفْعَلْهُ بُطْءًا يَاهٰذَا , and ↓ بُطْأَى , [I never did it, lit.] I did it not ever, O thou! i. e. الدَّهْرَ . (K, TA.)

بُطْأَى : see بُطْءٌ .

بُطْا=نَ ذَا خُرُوجًا , and بَطْا=نَ , (S, K,) but the latter is extr., (TA,) i. q. ذَا خُرُوجًا ↓ بَطُوءَ [Slow, or very slow, or how slow, is this in coming forth!]; (S, K;) the fet-hah in [the last syllable of] بَطُوءَ is transferred to the ن of بُطْا=ن , and the dammeh of the ط [in the former] to the ب [in the latter]; the meaning being one of wonder; i. e. مَا أَبْطَأَهُ . (S, TA.) [ بطا=ن is an enunciative placed before its inchoative: and, being originally بَطُوءَ , it may be a simple enunciative, or an enunciative having an intensive signification; as that verb signifies simply “ it was slow, ” &c., and may be used as co-ordinate to رَمُوَ , meaning “ excellent is he in his shooting! ” &c., and قَضُوَ “ excellent is he in his judging! ” &c.: or it may be equivalent to مَا أَبْطَأَ , as it is said to be in the S. See also سَرْعَانَ .]

بَطِىْءٌ بطىء بطيء بطيء Slow, tardy, dilatory, late, or backward; applied to a man, (S, Msb, TA,) and to a horse or the like: (S, TA:) pl. بَطَا=ءٌ . (S, K, TA.) ― -b2- Also an imitative sequent to حَطِىْءٌ . (S in art. حطأ .)

أَبْطَأُ More, and most, slow, &c. (Meyd, &c.)

المَبْطَأُ for المَبْدَأُ is mentioned by AO. (TA on the letter ط .)