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بِطْيَةٌ طي طية بطيه بطية , with kesr, is a word mentioned by Sb; (K;) but ISd says, “ I know not to what it is applied, unless ↓ أَبْطَيْتُ be a dial. var. of أَبْطَأْتُ, (K, TA,) like as اِحْبَنْطَيْتُ is of اِحْبَنْطَأْتُ; in which case it is thence derived as meaning The state [of being slow, &c.]; and is not to be regarded as formed by substitution [of ى for '], because that would be extr.: ” so in the M: (TA:) it is asserted, however, in the S and the Fs and the Jámi' el-Loghah of Kz and in other lexicons, that one should not say, ابطيت, with ى, but ابطأت, with '. (MF, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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