ابطل
Root: بطل
Form: 4
Full Definition
2 See also 1.
def.2 ابطلهُ [and vulgarly بطّلهُ ] He made it, or rendered it, [and he proved it to be,] بَاطِل, i. e. false, untrue, wrong or incorrect, fictitious, spurious, unfounded, unsound, vain, unreal, naught, futile, worthless, useless, unprofitable, devoid of virtue or efficacy, ineffectual, null, void, of no force, or of no account; he nullified it, annulled it, abolished it, cancelled it; whether it was true or false, right or wrong, authentic or spurious, valid or null; he made it to go for nothing, as a thing of no account, or as a thing that had perished or become lost. Hence, ابطل شَهَادَتَهُ He annulled his testimony. (TA in art. زور.) And لِيُحِقَّ الحَقَّ وَ يُيْطِلَ البَاطِلَ, in the Kur [viii. 8, meaning That He might establish that which is true, and annul that which is false].
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