بَاتَstayed

Example sentences

• فَبَاتَ عَليّ مَكَانَهُ

  So Ali stayed in his place.

  فَبَاتَ — so stayed. 'Fa-' (so) plus a past-tense verb 'spent the night / lay', its subject coming next. A 'to be'-type verb of the night, it sets a circumstance; here 'passed the night [in]'.

  From: The Night of the Migration →

• فَيَقُولُ أَطْيَبُ اللَّبَنَاتِ مَا بَاتَ فِي الضَّرْعِ،

  So he says, 'The best portions of milk are that which stayed overnight in the udder.'

  بَاتَ — stayed overnight. A past-tense verb meaning 'spent the night / stayed overnight', with its subject (the 'it' of the milk) carried inside. It completes the relative clause begun by 'that which', telling you what those portions did. Verbs like this describe being in a state through the night, so it frames the milk as having rested overnight.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →