بَاطِنٌ
Root: بطن
Full Definition
2 بَاطِنُ أَمْرٍ [The inward, or intrinsic, state or circumstances, of a case or an affair]; [and so أَمْرٍ; whence the phrases,] أَفْرَشَنِى ظَهْرَ أَمْرِهِ وَبَطْنَهُ
3 البَاطِنُ [The internal, inward, or intrinsic, state, condition, character, or circumstances, of a man: and the heart, meaning the secret thoughts; the recesses of the mind; the state of mind; the inward, or secret, disposition of the mind: opposed to الظَّاهِرُ.
4 Also,] an epithet applied to God, meaning He who knows the inward, or intrinsic, states or circumstances of things: or He who knows the secret and hidden things: or He who is veiled from the eyes and imaginations of created beings.
5 [بَاطِنًا Covertly; secretly.]
6 See also بَاطِنَةٌ, in eight places.
7 بِطَانَةٌ also signifies A water-course, or place in which water flows, in rugged ground: pl. بُطْنَانٌ and بُطْنٌ.
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