ثبط

From the root ث ب ط‎ (ṯ-b-ṭ).

• IPA^(key): /θab.ba.tˤa/

ثَبَّطَ • (ṯabbaṭa) II, non-past يُثَبِّطُ‎‎ (yuṯabbiṭu)

1. to make someone/something lag behind
2. to discourage
   • (Can we date this quote?), Umar ibn Abd al-Azīz, Sīrah Uman ibn Abd Al-Azīz:

     ‏يَا رَبِّ، خَلَقْتَنِي وَأَمَرْتَنِي، وَنَهَيْتَنِي وَرَغَّبْتَنِي فِي ثَوَابِ مَا أَمَرْتَنِي بِهِ […] وَسَلَّطْتَ عَلَيَّ عَدُوًّا، فَأَسْكَنْتَهُ صَدْرِي، وَأَسْكَنْتَهُ مَجْرَى دَمِي، إِنْ أَهُمَّ بِفَاحِشَةٍ شَجَّعَنِي ، وَإِنْ أَهُمَّ بِطَاعَةٍ ثَبَّطَنِي، لَا يَغْفُلُ إِنْ غَفَلْتُ!‎‎

     yā rabbi, ḵalaqtanī waʔamartanī, wanahaytanī waraḡḡabtanī fī ṯawābi mā ʔamartanī bihi […] wasallaṭta ʕalayya ʕaduwwan, faʔaskantahu ṣadrī, waʔaskantahu majrā damī, ʔin ʔahumma bifāḥišatin šajjaʕanī , waʔin ʔahumma biṭāʕatin ṯabbaṭanī, lā yaḡfulu ʔin ḡafaltu!

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3. (medicine, pharmacology) to inhibit (of a drug)

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