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بَطَشَ

Root: بطش

Form: 1

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بَطَشَI , Present.T ـِ and ـُ the former of which is that adopted by the seven readers in chap. xliv. verse 15 of the Kur, Verbal.Noun بَطْشٌ, He seized him violently; laid violent hands upon him: assaulted him: or he seized him with violence and assault: or he seized him vehemently, in anger: and he laid hold upon him vehemently, in making an assault: and signifies the same as بَطَشَ بِهِ, but is rare, occurring in the words [of the Kur xliv. 15], يَوْمَ نُبْطِشُ البَطْشَةَ الكُبْرَى, accord. to the reading of El-Hasan and Ibn-Rejà, [meaning On the day when we make the greatest assault:] or, accord. to AHát, [and Bd says the like,] the meaning is, [on the day when] we give power over them to such as shall assault them [with the great assault; or make to assault with the great assault].
2 Also He took it, namely, anything, or took hold of it, or clung to it, strongly. In the saying of El- Hulwánee, وَ مَا لَا يَقَعُ عَلَيْهِ العَيْنُ وَ لَا يَبْطِشُهُ الكَفُّ, [meaning And that upon which the eye falls not, and of which the hand does not take hold,] the prep. [بِ] is understood; or the verb is thus used as implying the meaning of الأَخْذُ and التَّنَاوُلُ.
3 بَطَشَتْ بِهِمْ أَهْوَالُ الدُّنْيَا [The terrors of the world assaulted them].
4 بَطَشَتِ اليَدُ The hand worked, wrought, or laboured.
5 فُلَانٌ يَبْطِشُ فِى العِلْمِ بِبَاعٍ بَسِيطٍ [Such a one labours in science with extensive ability].
6 بَطَشَ مِنَ الحُمَّى He recovered from the fever, being still weak.


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