بَتَكَهُ
1.
, aorist
بَتِكَ
and
بَتُكَ
, (S, K,) verbal noun بَتْكٌ, (S,) He cut it; or severed it, or cut it off, (S, K,) entirely, or from its root; (TA;) and in like manner,
بتّكهُ, (K,) verbal noun تَبْتِيكٌ; (TA;) but بتَك is with teshdeed to denote muchness, or frequency, of the action, or its application to many objects. (S, TA.) اذَانَ الأَنْعَامِ, in the Qur'an, 4:118, according to Abu-l-'Abbás, (TA,) means And they shall assuredly cut, or cut off, the ears of the cattle: (S, * TA:) or, as Az thinks, slit the ears of the cattle, as they did in the time of ignorance. (TA.)