Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ث

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2 ثبّطهُ عَنِ الأَمْرِ ذ , (Lth, IDrd, S, Msb, K,) or الشَّىْءِ, (TA,) inf. n. تَثْبِيطٌ, (S, Msb,) He hindered him, withheld him, or prevented him, (IDrd, Msb, K, TA,) and retarded him, (IDrd, K, TA,) from doing the affair, or thing; (IDrd, Msb, K, TA;) as also ↓ ثَبَطَهُ : (IDrd, K:) he diverted him from it, by occupying him otherwise: (Lth, S, Msb:) or he prevented him from doing it by inducing him to be cowardly and weak-hearted: (Msb:) or تثبيط signifies one's turning a man back, or away, from a thing that he would do: (Aboo-Is- hák:) or one's intervening as an obstacle between a man and a thing that he desires. (TA.) The verb occurs in the Kur ix. 46. (TA.) ― -b2- ثبّطهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ, inf. n. as above, He made him to pause, or wait, at the thing, or affair; (TA;) as also عَلَيْهِ ↓ ثَبَطَهُ , (K, * TA,) inf. n. ثَبْطٌ; (TA;) 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]. (K, TA.)