Quranic root
بطر
b · ṭ · r
The root is centered on splitting or slitting, with a related semantic development toward exceeding the proper limit in exultation.
The concrete sense of cutting or dividing is associated with veterinary terminology, while بَطَرَ denotes excessive exultation that exceeds proper bounds, especially in response to prosperity.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
بَطِرَ
baṭira
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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To be overwhelmed by prosperity or blessing and thereby rejoice or exult excessively, behaving insolently and ungratefully, or misusing what one has been given.
In the Quranic construction بَطِرَتْ مَعِيشَتَهَا, the verb describes prosperity-driven exultation in a community's life. The construction is explained as intransitive, with مَعِيشَتَهَا in the accusative associated with an understood في.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 28:58word 5
“which exulted”
بَطَر
baṭar
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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Exultant insolence arising from poor tolerance of prosperity or blessing, with failure to fulfill its due or diversion of it to a wrong use.
In the Quranic expression بَطَرًا وَرِئَاءَ النَّاسِ, the noun denotes boastful, prosperity-related exultation accompanying ostentation before people.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 8:47word 7
“boastfully”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 18 Classical meanings
بَطِرَ
In wealth- and favor-related constructions, to domineer over others when rich, or to hold wealth or a benefit lightly and be ungrateful for it.
This includes constructions with الغنى and النعمة and describes a broader application of insolent behavior toward prosperity or favor.
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بَطِرَ
To become confounded, perplexed, or amazed through fright.
This is a distinct Classical use from prosperity-related exultation.
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بَطِرَ
To refuse right guidance in managing one's affairs, or to disdain and reject truth or duty as false or unacceptable.
The constructions بَطِرَ هِدَايَةَ أَمْرِهِ and بَطَرُ الحَقِّ are used for refusal to recognize or accept right guidance and truth.
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بَطِرَ
To regard something with hatred or dislike despite its not deserving such treatment.
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بَطِرَ
To be brisk, lively, or sprightly.
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بَطِرَ
To walk with an elegant, proud, self-conceited gait, inclining the body from side to side.
This is a conventional description of manner of walking, not a general restriction on the verb's objects.
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بَطَرَ
To cut or divide something lengthwise; to slit or split it.
This is the transitive cutting branch of the verb.
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أَبْطَرَ
To cause someone to become exultant, insolent, and ungrateful, or to stupefy and confound him, turning him from moderation or gravity into levity.
The causative may describe wealth producing this condition or another circumstance causing a person's composure to collapse into excessive exultation or confusion.
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أَبْطَرَ
To impose on someone what exceeds his ability; alternatively, to cut off his means of subsistence and waste his body.
In أَبْطَرَهُ ذَرْعَهُ, the expression is explained either as overtaxing someone beyond his power or as destroying his means and bodily condition.
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بَيْطَرَ
To practice farriery or veterinary medicine; to treat beasts, including horses and similar animals, medically or curatively.
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بِطْرًا
In the phrase ذَهَبَ دَمُهُ بِطْرًا, to go unavenged because the blood has been held in light estimation.
This is an idiomatic use concerning blood or a blood-debt that is disregarded.
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بَطِرٌ
Exulting greatly or excessively and behaving insolently and ungratefully, especially through pride in wealth.
This is the active-participial adjective of بَطِرَ.
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بَطِيرٌ
Cut or divided lengthwise; slit or split.
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بَطِيرَةٌ
A feminine adjective for one who behaves with much exultation, insolence, and unthankfulness.
The feminine form is grammatical; the lexical description concerns the behavior, not a restriction to a particular class of person.
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بِطْرِيرٌ
Clamorous or long-tongued; one who persists in error; also, one who behaves with exultant insolence and ingratitude.
The evidence records frequent application of this adjective in reference to women, but that usage distribution is not a semantic restriction.
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بِيَطْرٌ
A tailor, in an extension associated with cutting or slitting.
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بَيْطَرَةٌ
Farriery or the veterinary art.
This is the verbal-noun name of the veterinary practice denoted by بَيْطَرَ.
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بَيْطَارٌ
A farrier or veterinarian who treats beasts medically; figuratively, a person highly knowledgeable or skilful in a matter.
The figurative use extends the expertise of a veterinary practitioner to skill in another field.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied Quran occurrences attest the prosperity-related exultation branch. Cutting, causative, idiomatic, and veterinary branches are retained separately as broader Classical Arabic meanings under their own headwords.