بَطٌّ
Root: بط
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بَطٌّ
A kind of water-fowl; [the duck, or ducks; and the goose, or geese; but generally the former of these birds; agreeably with a statement in the Jm, that بَطٌّ is applied by the Arabs to the small, and إِوَزٌّ to the large;] i. q.
إِوَزٌّ, both the small thereof and the large: a Persian word (عَجَمِىٌّ), arabicized; [originally بَتْ, or بَطْ, or بَطّ;] or, accord. to IJ, an imitation of its cries: n. un. بَطَّةٌ, which is applied to the male and to the female, like حَمَامَةٌ and دَجَاجَةٌ: pl. بِطَاطٌ.
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