بطخ
4 أَبْطَخُوا They had abundance of بِطِّيخ [or melons, or water-melons]. (
S,
A,
L,
K.) 5 تبطّخ He ate بِطِّيخ. (
A,
TA.) إِبِلٌ بَطِخَةٌ, and رِجَالٌ بَطِخَةٌ, (
tropical:) Large, big, bulky, or corpulent, camels, and men: and رَجُلٌ
↓ بُطَاخِىٌّ (
tropical:) a large, big, bulky, or corpulent, man. (
K,
TA.) بُطَاخِىٌّ: see what immediately precedes.
بَطِّيخٌ, (
S,
Msb,
K, &c.,) vulgarly and incorrectly pronounced بَطِّيخٌ, (
ISk,
Msb,) and in the
dial. of El-Hijáz called طِبِّيخٌ, (
Msb,) A certain well-known fruit; (
Msb;) [the melon, absolutely, as is shown by many passages in the lexicons, and expressly stated in law-books: and, particularly, the water-melon; cucurbita citrullus: or a plant] of the kind called يَقْطِين, that does not grow tall, but extends itself upon the surface of the ground: (
K,
TA:) and also the خِرْبِز [or خَرْبُز, a Persian word, and applied to the water-melon, by the Turks termed by this name, and in their own language قَارْپُوزْ]: (
CK: [but not found by me in my
MS. copy of the
K, nor in the
L, nor in the
TA:]) or البِطِّيخُ الهِنْدِىُّ [the Indian بطّيخ] is what is called in Persian the خَرْبُز: (
Mgh:) [the term بطّيخ is applied to many varieties of the water-melon, distinguished by different epithets; as الأَحْمَرُ the red, الأَصْفَرُ the yellow, الأَبْيَضُ the white, الأَجْرَبُ the mangy, النَّمْشُ the speckled, البُرُلُّىُّ that of El-Burullus, &c.: it is a
coll. gen. n.:]
n. un. with ة. (
S,
K.) مَبْطَخَةٌ (
S,
A,
Mgh, &c.) and مَبْطُخَةٌ (
S,
L,
K) A place where بِطِّيخ grow: (
S,
A,
Mgh, &c.:)
pl. مَبَاطِخُ. (
A,
TA.)
