# Be-Ta-Elif — بطا (bTA)

> Occurs in 1 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/bTA

- **Meaning:** To become slow, to be dilatory, to be late, to fall behind, to become sluggish, to be delayed
- **Derived forms:** يُبَطِّئَ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 4. Surah An-Nisa, Verse 72

- **Form in this verse:** لَّيُبَطِّئَنَّ — layubaṭṭi-anna · "lags behind"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tef'il · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

وَاِنَّ مِنْكُمْ لَمَنْ لَيُبَطِّئَنَّۚ فَاِنْ اَصَابَتْكُمْ مُص۪يبَةٌ قَالَ قَدْ اَنْعَمَ اللّٰهُ عَلَيَّ اِذْ لَمْ اَكُنْ مَعَهُمْ شَه۪يداً

Wa-inna minkum laman layubatti-annafa-in asabatkum museebatun qala qad anAAamaAllahu AAalayya ith lam akun maAAahum shaheeda

And among you is he who delays; then if calamity befalls you, he says: “God was gracious to me in that I was not present with them.”

_https://quran.so/surah-an-nisa/verse-72.md_

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