Quranic root
بتك
b · t · k
The root centers on cutting or severing, especially detaching a part from its whole.
The lexical range extends from cutting a part away or plucking it from its root to the detached piece, the state of becoming severed, and the sharp cutting quality of an instrument.
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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.
بَتَّكَ
battaka
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
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- Quran occurrences
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Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To cut off or sever a part, especially by cutting it from its root; in the Quranic construction, to cut or slit the ears of cattle.
Active Form II; the doubled form may convey extensive or repeated action, or its application to multiple objects. The attested Quranic construction concerns the ears of cattle.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:119word 4
“so they will surely cut off”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 4:119فَلَيُبَتِّكُنَّso they will surely cut off
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 4 Classical meanings
بَتَكَ
To pluck out hair, feathers, or the like by grasping and pulling them until they are detached from the root.
A transitive use describing removal by pulling rather than merely cutting across.
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اِنْبَتَكَ
To become cut, severed, or detached, entirely or from the root; also, to become plucked out.
Intransitive Form VII construction describing the resulting state of severance or detachment.
- Lane · entry 35510
بِتْكَةٌ
A piece or portion cut off or severed; by extension, a portion of the latter part of the night, especially its remaining darkness.
Also attested with the variant pronunciation بَتْكَةٌ; plural بِتَكٌ.
- Lane · entry 35511
بَاتِكٌ / بَتُوكٌ
An epithet meaning sharp or cutting; بَتُوكٌ is an intensive form meaning very sharp or keenly cutting.
The cited application is to a sword or other cutting instrument; بَتُوكٌ intensifies the description.
- Lane · entry 35513