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ابطن

Root: بطن

Form: 4

Full Definition

ابطنIV , Verbal.Noun إِبْطَانٌ, He bound, or made fast, the camel's بِطَان [or belly-girth]; as also بطّنهُ , accord. to the copies of the K; but this is a mistake for , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun بَطْنٌ; which last verb, however, though said by Az to be a dial. var., is disallowed by IAar and by AHeyth.
2 أَبْطَنْتُ السِّيْفَ كَشْحِى I put the sword beneath my waist. And ابطن كَشْحَهُ سَيْفَهُ He made his sword to be his [app. meaning his secret companion]. [This seems to be from the phrase next following.]
3 أَبْطَنْتُ الرَّجُلَ I made the man to be one of my particular, or special, intimates, friends, or associates; took him as a بِطَانَة. One says also, فُلَانًا دُونَكَ (Ham p. 688; [there rendered by خامصته, app. a mistranscription for خَصَصْتُهُ; meaning I took, or chose, such a one particularly, or specially, for my companion, in preference to thee: it is said in explanation of the phrase مُسْتَبْطِنًا سَيْفِى, which seems to mean taking my sword as my special companion, or putting it beneath my waist; so that سَيْفَهُ is similar to one, or both, of two phrases mentioned above in this paragraph.])
4 See also 2.


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