(بَطَشَ) الْبَاءُ وَالطَّاءُ وَالشِّينُ أَصْلٌ وَاحِدٌ، وَهُوَ أَخْذُ الشَّيْءِ بِقَهْرٍ وَغَلَبَةٍ وَقُوَّةٍ. قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: {إِنَّ بَطْشَ رَبِّكَ لَشَدِيدٌ} [البروج: 12] . وَيَدٌ بَاطِشَةٌ.
Entries on بطش in 16 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Muḥammad al-Fattinī, Majmaʿ Biḥār al-Anwār fī Gharāʾib al-Tanzīl wa Laṭāʾif al-Akhbār, Abu Ḥayyān al-Gharnāṭī, Tuḥfat al-Arīb bi-mā fī l-Qurʾān min al-Gharīb, Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary, and 13 more
