Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

بَتَكَهُ

Root: بتك

Form: 1

Full Definition

بَتَكَهُI , Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun بَتْكٌ, He cut it; or severed it, or cut it off, entirely, or from its root; and in like manner, بتّكهُ , Verbal.Noun تَبْتِيكٌ; but بتَك is with teshdeed to denote muchness, or frequency, of the action, or its application to many objects. آذَانَ الأَنْعَامِ, in the Kur [iv. 118], accord. to Abu-l-'Abbás, means And they shall assuredly cut, or cut off, the ears of the cattle: or, as Az thinks, slit the ears of the cattle, as they did in the time of ignorance.
2 Also He plucked it out; he laid hold upon it and pulled it towards him so that it became severed from its root and plucked out; namely, a hair, or feather, or the like.


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