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ثبّطهُ

Root: ثبط

Form: 2

Full Definition

ثبّطهُII , or الشَّىْءِ, Verbal.Noun تَثْبِيطٌ, He hindered him, withheld him, or prevented him, and retarded him, from doing the affair, or thing; as also : he diverted him from it, by occupying him otherwise: or he prevented him from doing it by inducing him to be cowardly and weak-hearted: or تثبيط signifies one's turning a man back, or away, from a thing that he would do: or one's intervening as an obstacle between a man and a thing that he desires. The verb occurs in the Kur ix. 46.
2 ثبّطهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ, Verbal.Noun as above, He made him to pause, or wait, at the thing, or affair; as also عَلَيْهِ, Verbal.Noun ثَبْطٌ; syn. وَقَّفَهُ عَلَيْهِ [which here has the meaning assigned to it above, as is shown by the explanation of the quasi-pass. تَثَبَّطَ immediately following in the K: in the CK, we find, erroneously, وَقَفَ عليه].


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