أَبْتَرُ

A tail cut off entirely. (T, L.)

Any beast (M) having the tail cut off: (T, S, A, Msb, K:) or [having either the whole or a part of the tail cut off;] having the tail cut, or amputated, in any place: (M:) feminine بَتْرَاءُ; with which ↓ مَبْتُورَةٌ is synonym: (Mgh, Msb:) plural بُتْرٌ. (A, Msb.)

(assumed tropical:) A certain malignant, or noxious, serpent: (K:) or a short-tailed serpent: (Mgh; and EdDurr en-Netheer, an abridgment of the Nh of IAth, by El-Jelál:) or a certain species of blue serpent, having its tail [as it were] cut off, which none in a state of pregnancy sees without casting her burden: (ISh:) or the kind of serpent called شَيْطَان, having a short tail: no one sees it without fleeing from it, and no one in a state of pregnancy beholds it without casting her young: it is thus called only because of the shortness of its tail, as thought its tail were cut off. (M.)

(assumed tropical:) A leathern water-bag, and a bucket, having no loop. (M, K.)

(assumed tropical:) Defective, deficient, incomplete, or imperfect. (Mgh.)

(assumed tropical:) In want, or poor. (M, K.)

(assumed tropical:) Suffering loss; synonym خَاسِرٌ. (M, K.)

(assumed tropical:) One from whom all good, or prosperity, is cut off. (M.)

(assumed tropical:) Having no offspring, or progeny; (Aboo-Is-hák, T, S, M, IAth, K;) as also ↓ أُبَاتِرٌ (M, K) and ↓ مُنْبَتِرٌ. (IAth.) [The diminutive, ↓ أُبَيْتِرُ, occurs in a tradition, in this sense, or in some other sense implying contempt.]

(assumed tropical:) Anything cut off, (K,) or anything of which the effect is cut off, (S,) from good, or prosperity. (S, K.) [See an example in a tradition cited voce بَالٌ.]

خُطْبَةٌ بَتْرَاءُ (assumed tropical:) A خطبة [q. v.] in which the speaker does not praise God nor bless the Prophet: (S, A, K:) particularly applied to a certain خطبة of Ziyád. (S, A.)

رَكْعَةٌ بَتْرَاءُ, (TA,) and [its diminutive] ↓ بُتَيْرَاءُ, (S, TA,) (assumed tropical:) A single ركعة [q. v.] performed instead of the complete performance of the prayer called الوِتْر: or a ركعة cut short, or cut off, after the completion of one ركعة, when both were to have been performed. (TA.)

الأَبْتَرَانِ (assumed tropical:) The ass (العَيْرُ) and the slave: (ISK, S, A, K:) so called because of the little good that is in them: (ISk, S:) each is called الأَبْتَرُ. (K.)