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4 ابطرهُ أبطر أبطره ابطره ابطرة بطر It rendered him such as is termed بَطِر; it (wealth) caused him to exult, or to exult greatly, or excessively, and to behave insolently and unthankfully, or ungratefully: &c.: [see بَطِرَ:] (S, A:) it stupified him, deprived him of his reason, confounded him, or amazed him. (S, K.) You say, مَا أَمْطَرَتْ حَتَّى أَبْطَرَتْ It (the sky) rained not until it caused [men] to exult, or to exult greatly, &c. (A.) ― -b2- ابطر حِلْمَهُ (tropical:) It (the ignorance of a person) caused his (another's) clemency, moderation, or gravity, to become converted into inordinate exultation, and insolence, or the like, and levity. (A.) ― -b3- ابطرهُ حِلْمَهُ (tropical:) It stupified, confounded, or amazed, him, so as to turn him from his clemency, moderation, or gravity. (TA.) ― -b4- ابطرهُ ذَرْعَهُ (tropical:) He imposed upon him more than he was able to do; (S;) what was above his power: (K:) ذرعه is here a substitute for its antecedent to indicate an implication therein: (A:) you say this when a slow-paced camel has endeavoured in vain to keep pace with another camel; and when any man has imposed upon another a difficulty beyond his power: (TA:) or the meaning is, he cut off his means of subsistence, and wasted his body: (IAar, K:) ذرع signifying the “ body. ” (IAar.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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