بَاكَيْتُهُ فَبَكَيْتُهُ

, (S, TA,) aorist of the latter أَبْكُوهُ, (TA,) or أَبْكِيهِ, retaining its original form, according to a rule observed in the case of a verb having an infirm letter [for its second or third radical] lest a verb with a radical ى should be confounded with one having a radical و, (Ham p. 670,) i. e. [I vied with him, or strove to exceed him, in weeping, and I exceeded him therein, or] I was a greater weeper (أَبْكَى) than he. (S, TA.)