بثثto scatter/disperse a thing and thereby manifest or disclose it (root bthth)

al-bathth (البث): the dispersing of a thing. And baththaytu (بثثت) the thing and the news [means]: I spread/disclosed it; and ibtathathtuhu (ابتثثته) [means] the same. One says: baththa (بث) the horses in the raid, and baththa (بث) the dogs [meaning] he dispersed his dogs upon the game.

baththa (بث) the news and abaththahu (أبثه) have the same meaning, i.e. he spread it. One says: abthathtuka sirrī (أبثثتك سري), i.e. I disclosed my secret to you. And baththa (بثث) the report — doubled [the middle radical] for intensification — so it becomes munbathth (انبث), i.e. it spread. And tamr bathth (تمر بث) is [dates] when their store cannot be found [i.e. they are scattered]. It is like their saying "māʾ ghawr" (ماء غور), "sunken water." Al-Aṣmaʿī said: tamr bathth (تمر بث) is when it is strewn, scattered one part from another. And al-bathth (البث): the [inner] state and grief. One says: abthathtuka (أبثثتك), i.e. I disclosed to you my bathth (بث, grief). And bathbathtu (بثبثت) the news, bathbathatan (بثبثة): I spread it; likewise the dust, when you stir it up.

The bāʾ and thāʾ [as a root] are one [base] meaning: the dispersing of a thing and its manifestation/disclosure. One says: baththū (بثوا) the horses in the raid [i.e., they dispersed them widely], and the hunter dispersed (baththa بث) his dogs upon the game. Al-Nābigha said: "So he dispersed them (the dogs) upon it, and it (the hunt) continued with it — firm-jointed ones, free of stiffness/limp." And God, Exalted is He, created creation and dispersed them (baththahum بثهم) in the earth for their livelihood. And when goods/furnishings are spread out in the corners of a house or dwelling, it is called mabthūth (مبثوث). And in the Qur'an: "wa-zarābiyyu mabthūthah" (وزرابي مبثوثة) — "and spread-out carpets," i.e. many and scattered. Ibn al-Aʿrābī said: tamr bathth (تمر بث) means dates that are scattered, not gathered into a store. He said: baththaytu (بثثت) the food and the dates means I turned them over and threw some of them upon others; and baththaytu (بثثت) the report means I spread/disclosed it. As for al-bathth (البث) meaning grief, it too comes from this, because it is something that is complained of, disclosed (yubathth ويبث), and made manifest. God, Exalted is He, said, in the story of one who said: "innamā ashkū baththī wa-ḥuznī ilā Allāh" (إنما أشكو بثي وحزني إلى الله) — "I only complain of my grief (baththī) and sorrow to God" [Q12:86]. Abū Zayd said: one says: abaththa (أبث) so-and-so his shuqūr (شقور) and fuqūr (فقور) to so-and-so, yubiththu (يبث), ibthāthan (إبثاثا); al-ibthāth (الإبثاث) is that he complain to him of his poverty and hardship. He [a poet] said: "And I make him weep, until from what I disclosed to him (abithuhu أبثه) his very stones and haunts nearly spoke to me." And a woman said to her husband: "By God, I have fed you my seasoned food and disclosed to you (abthathtuka أبثثتك) my hidden matter, plainly, holding nothing back."

The root of al-bathth (البث) is dispersal and the stirring up of a thing, like the wind's dispersing (bathth) of dust, and the soul's disclosing of the grief and secret it contains within it. One says: baththaytuhu (بثثته) fa-nbathth (فانبث) [I dispersed it and it became dispersed]. From this is His saying, Exalted is He: "fa-kānat habāʾan munbathan" (فكانت هباء منبثا) — "and it will become scattered dust" [Q56:6]. And His saying, Exalted is He: "wa-baththa fīhā min kulli dābbah" (وبث فيها من كل دابة) — "and dispersed therein every kind of creature" [Q2:164] — an allusion to His, Exalted is He, bringing into existence what did not exist and manifesting it. And His saying, Exalted is He: "ka-l-farāshi l-mabthūth" (كالفراش المبثوث) — "like scattered moths" [Q101:4], i.e. stirred up after their stillness and concealment. And His saying, Exalted is He: "innamā ashkū baththī wa-ḥuznī" (إنما أشكو بثي وحزني) — "I only complain of my baththī (grief) and sorrow" [Q12:86], i.e. my grief which I disclose (ubiththuhu) after having concealed it — so it [baththī] is a verbal noun (maṣdar) used in the sense of a passive object [i.e. 'that which is disclosed']; or it means: my grief which stirs up (batha) my thoughts, like the expression "tuwazziʿunī l-fikru" (توزعني الفكر), "thoughts pull me apart," in which case it would carry the sense of an active participle.

baththa (بث) the thing and the news, yabuthuhu wa-yabithuhu (يبثه ويبثه), bathth-an (بثا), and abaththahu (أبثه) — with the same meaning — fa-nbathth (فانبث): he dispersed it and it dispersed, and [it means] he spread it/made it known. Likewise baththa (بث) the horses in the raid, yabuthuhā (يبثها), bathth-an (بثا), fa-nbathat (فانبثت) [and it dispersed]; and baththa (بث) the hunter his dogs, yabuthuhā (يبثها), bathth-an (بثا). And inbaththa (انبث) the locusts in the land: they spread out. God created creation and dispersed them (baththahum بثهم) in the earth. In the noble revelation: "wa-baththa minhumā rijālan kathīran wa-nisāʾan" (وبث منهما رجالا كثيرا ونساء) — "and dispersed from the two of them many men and women" — i.e. spread and multiplied. In the ḥadīth of Umm Zarʿ: "zawjī lā abuthth khabarahu" (زوجي لا أبث خبره) — "my husband — I do not spread his news about" — i.e. I do not disclose it, because of the ugliness of its effects. And baththat (بثت) the carpets/furnishings, when you spread them out. God Almighty said: "wa-zarābiyyu mabthūthah" (وزرابي مبثوثة) [Q88:16]; al-Farrāʾ said: mabthūthah (مبثوثة) means many. And His saying, Exalted is He: "fa-kānat habāʾan munbathan" (فكانت هباء منبثا) [Q56:6], i.e. dust scattered and dispersed. And tamr bathth (تمر بث) is [dates] when their store cannot be found, so they are dispersed; it is also said [to mean] that which is scattered, not in a sack or container, like fathth (فث); it is like their saying "māʾ ghawr" (ماء غور), "sunken water." Al-Aṣmaʿī said: tamr bathth (تمر بث) is when it is strewn, dispersed one part from another. And bathbatha (بثبث) the dust: he stirred it up and uncovered what was beneath it. In the ḥadīth of ʿAbd Allāh: "When death came upon the Jew, he said: bathbithūhu (بثبثوه)" — i.e. uncover him. Al-Harawī related this in al-Gharībayn; it is from al-bathth (البث), the disclosing/spreading of a report, the origin of it being bathithūhu (بثثوه), with the middle thāʾ changed to a bāʾ for ease of pronunciation, just as they said, for ḥathaththu (حثثت): ḥathḥathtu (حثحثت). And abaththahu (أبثه) the ḥadīth [report]: he informed him of it, made him aware of it. Abū Kabīr said: "Then I turned away, and I do not disclose to you (abuthuka أبثك) my [full] state — trembling of fingertip, more bewildered in gait than a wild ass." He meant: I do not tell you the full extent of my bad condition. And al-bathth (البث): the [inner] state and grief. One says: abthathtuka (أبثثتك), i.e. I disclosed to you my bathth (بث). In the ḥadīth of Umm Zarʿ: "lā tabuthth ḥadīthanā tabthīthan" (لا تبث حديثنا تبثيثا) — "she does not spread our talk about" — also transmitted as tanuththu (تنث), with a nūn, meaning the same. And istabathahu (استبثه) iyyāhu: he asked him to disclose it (yabuthahu) to him. And al-bathth (البث): the grief and sorrow which you convey/disclose to your companion. In the ḥadīth of Umm Zarʿ: "lā yūliju l-kaffa li-yaʿlama l-bathth" (لا يولج الكف ليعلم البث) — "he does not insert his hand [into her garment] to learn of the bathth"; it is said that al-bathth (البث) originally means intensity of grief and severe illness, as if, from its intensity, its bearer discloses it (yubiththuhu). The meaning [of the ḥadīth] is that she had some defect or ailment in her body, so he would not put his hand into her garment and touch her, knowing that this would harm her — thereby describing him as gentle. It is also said that this is in fact a criticism of him, meaning: he does not attend to her affairs and interests, as in their saying, "I did not put my hand into this matter," i.e. I do not concern myself with it. In the ḥadīth of Kaʿb ibn Mālik: "When he set out returning from Tabūk, my bathth (بثي) came upon me intensely," i.e. my grief intensified. And one says: abthathtu (أبثثت) so-and-so my secret, with the alif, ibthāthan (إبثاثا), i.e. I made him aware of it and disclosed it to him. And baththaytu (بثثت) the news, doubled [the middle radical] for intensification, fa-nbathth (فانبث), i.e. it spread. And bathbathtu (بثبثت) the matter, when you investigate and seek information about it. And bathbathtu (بثبثت) the news, bathbathatan (بثبثة): I spread it; and the dust: I stirred it up.