A1adjective
بَطيء
baṭīʾ
slow
Example
السَّيرُ بَطيء
as-sayru baṭīʾ
The traffic is slow
Grammar
Feminine form: baṭīʾa (بَطيئة). Opposite of sarīʿ (سَريع).
Ba-Tah-Alif
1 word from this root family
Ba-Tah-Alif (ب-ط-ا) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: baṭīʾ (slow).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 4:72.
Themes: Adjectives
| Word | Meaning | Type | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|
بَطيء baṭīʾ | slow | adjective, A1 | Adjectives - Appearance & Beauty |
وَإِنَّ مِنكُمْ لَمَن لَّيُبَطِّئَنَّ فَإِنْ أَصَـٰبَتْكُم مُّصِيبَةٌ قَالَ قَدْ أَنْعَمَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىَّ إِذْ لَمْ أَكُن مَّعَهُمْ شَهِيدًاLo! among you there is he who loitereth; and if disaster overtook you, he would say: Allah hath been gracious unto me since I was not present with them.
Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).
Feminine form: baṭīʾa (بَطيئة). Opposite of sarīʿ (سَريع).