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أثّر فِيهِ , inf. n. تَأْثِيرٌ , He, or it, made, (Msb,) or left, (M, K,) or caused to remain, (S,) an impression, or a mark, or trace, upon him, or it. (S, * M, Msb, K. *) It is said of a sword, [meaning It made, or left, a mark, or scar, upon him, or it,] and in like manner of a blow. (T, TA.) [Whence,] أَثَّرَ فِى عِرْضِهِ cross; [He scarred his honour]. (K in art. وخش .) You say also, أَثَّرَ بِوَجْهِهِ وَبِجَبِينِهِ السُّجُودُ [Prostration in prayer made, or left, a mark, or marks, upon his face and upon his forehead]. (T, * TA.) See also 1, first sentence. -A2- He, or it, made an impression, or produced an effect, upon him, or it; impressed, affected, or influenced, him, or it. (The Lexicons passim.) -A3- أَثَّرَ كَذَا بِكَذَا , (T, TT,) or ↓ ا=ثَرَ , (K,) He, or it, made such a thing to be followed by such a thing. (T, TT, K. *)

ا=ثَرَ see 2, last sentence. -A2- [Hence, app.,] ا=ثرهُ , (As, T, M, Msb,) inf. n. اـِيثَارٌ , (As, T,) He preferred him, or it. (As, T, M, Msb, TA.) You say, ا=ثرهُ عَلَيْهِ He preferred him before him: so in the Kur xii. 91. (As, M.) And ا=ثَرْتُ فُلاَنًا عَلَى نَفْسِى [I preferred such a one before myself], from الاـِيثَار . (S.) And قَدْ ا=ثَرْتُكَ I have preferred for thee it; I have preferred to give thee it, rather than any other thing. (T.) And ا=ثَرَ أَنْ يَفْعَلَ كَذَا He preferred doing such a thing; as also ↓ أَثِرَ , inf. n. أَثَرٌ ; and أَثَرَ . (M.) -A3- ا=ثر also signifies He chose, or elected, or selected. (K.) -A4- And ا=ثِرهُ He honoured him; paid him honour. (M, K.)

تأثّر It received an impression, or a mark, or trace; became impressed, or marked. (Msb.) -A2- He, or it, had an impression made, or an effect produced, upon him, or it; became impressed, affected, or influenced. (The Lexicons passim.) -A3- See also 8.

ايءْتَثَرَهُ , [written with the disjunctive alif اِيتَثَرَهُ ,] and ↓ تأثّرهُ , He followed his footsteps: (M, K:) or did so diligently, or perseveringly. (TA.)

استأثر عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ ; (ISk, S, K;) and عَلَيْهِمْ ↓ أَثِرَ , aor. اَثَرَ ; (K;) He chose for himself [in preference to his companions] (ISk, S, K) good things, (K,) in partition, (TA,) or good actions, and qualities of the mind. (ISk, S.) And استأثر بالشَّىْءِ , (S, K,) or الشَّىْءَ , (Msb,) He had the thing to himself, with none to share with him in it: (S, Msb, K:) and the former signifies he appropriated the thing to himself exclusively, (M, K,) عَلَى غَيْرِهِ in preference to another or others. (M.) It is said in a trad., اـِذَا اسْتَأْثَرَ اللّٰهُ بِشَىْءٍ فَالْهَ عَنُهُ When God appropriateth a thing to Himself exclusively, then be thou diverted from it so as to forget it. (M.) And one says, اِسْتأْثَرَ اللّٰهُ بِفُلَانٍ , (and فُلَانًا , TA,) [God took such a one to Himself,] when a person has died and it is hoped that he is forgiven. (S, M, A, K.)

أَثْرٌ , (AZ, T, S, A, L, K, &c.,) said by Yaakoob to be the only form known to As, (S,) and ↓ أَثَرٌ , which is a form used by poetic licence, (M, L,) and ↓ أثْرَةٌ , (M, L, K,) and ↓ أُثُرٌ , (M,) and ↓ أُثُرٌ , which is in like manner a sing., not a pl., (T, L,) and ↓ أثْرَةٌ , (El-Leblee,) and ↓ أَثِيرْ , (K,) The diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, of a sword; syn. فِرِنْدٌ ; (As, T, S, M, A, L, K;) and تَسَلْسُلٌ ; and دِيبَاجَةُ ; (AZ, T;) and its lustre, or glitter: (M, L:) pl. [of the first] أُثُرْ : (T, M, L, K:) the pl. of أُثْرَةٌ is أُثَرٌ . (El-Leblee.) Khufáf Ibn-Nudbeh Es-Sulamee says, [describing swords,] جَلَاهَا الصَّيْقَلُونَ فَاـَخْلَصُوهَا خِفَافاً كُلُّهَا يَتْقِى بِأَثْرِ [The furbishers polished them, and freed them from impurities, making them light: each of them preserving itself from the evil eye by means of its lustre]: i. e., each of them opposes to thee its فِرِنْد : (S, L:) يَتْقِى is a contraction of يَتَّقِى ; and the meaning is, when a person looks at them, their bright rays meet his eye, so that he cannot continue to look at them. (L.)

أُثْرٌ The scar of a wound, remaining when the latter has healed; (As, Sh, T, S, M, K;) as also ↓ أُثُرٌ (S, K) and ↓ أَثَرٌ : (Sh, T:) pl. ا=ثَارٌ , though properly اـِثَارٌ , with kesr to the ا [but why this is said, I do not see; for ا=ثَارٌ is a regular pl. of all the three forms of the sing.;] and اـُثُورٌ may be correctly used as a pl. (Sh, T, L.) -A2- A mark made with a hot iron upon the inner [i. e. under] part of a camel's foot, by which to trace his footprints: (M, K:) pl. أُثُورٌ . (M.) [See also أُثْرَةٌ .] -A3- Lustre, or brightness, of the face; as also ↓ أُثُرٌ . (M, K.) -A4- See أَثْرٌ . -A5- See also اـِثْرٌ .

اـِثْرٌ أثار أثر أثرى اـثر اثر ثار ثر ثري وثر آثر : see أَثَرٌ , in three places: ― -b2- and أَثْرٌ : ― -b3- and see ا=ثِرٌ , in two places. -A2- Also, (S, M, K,) and ↓ أُثْرٌ , (M, K,) but the latter is disallowed by more than one authority, (TA,) What is termed the خُلَاصَة [q. v.] of clarified butter: (S, M, K:) or, as some say, the milk when the clarified butter has become separated from it. (M.) [See also قِشْدَةٌ .]

أَثَرٌ A remain, or relic, of a thing; (M, Msb, K;) as of a house; as also ↓ أَثَارَةٌ : (Msb:) a trace remaining of a thing; and of the stroke, or blow, of a sword: (S:) see also أُثْرٌ : a sign, mark, or trace; opposed to the عَيْن , or thing itself: (TA:) a footstep, vestige, or track; a footprint; the impression, or mark, made by the foot of a man [&c.] upon the ground; as also ↓ اـِثْرٌ : and an impress, or impression, of anything: (El-Wá'ee:) pl. ا=ثَارٌح (M, Msb, K) and اـُثُورٌ . (M, K.) [The sing. is also frequently used in a pl. sense: and the former of these pls. is often used to signify Remains, or monuments, or memorials, of anti- quity, or of any past time.] It is said in a prov., لَا أَطْلُبُ أَثَرًا بَعْدَ عَيْنٍ I will not seek a trace, or vestige, [or, as we rather say in English, a shadow,] after suffering a reality, or substance, to escape me: or, as some relate it, لَا تَطْلُبْ seek not thou. (Har pp. 120 and 174.) And one says, قَطَعَ اللّٰهُ أَثَرَهُ [May God cut short his footsteps]: meaning may God render him crippled: for when one is crippled, his footsteps cease. (TA.) And فُلَانٌ لَيَصْدُقُ أَثَرُهُ , and أَثَرَهُ , Such a one, if asked, will not tell thee truly whence he comes: (M in art. صدق :) a prov. said of a liar. (TA.) And خَرَجْتُ , (S, M, * K,) and جَيءْتُ , (El-Wá'ee, Msb,) فيِ أَثَرِهِ , and ↓, في اـِثْرِهِ , (T, S, M, Msb, K,) the former of which is said by more than one to be the more chaste, (TA,) [but the latter seems to be the more common,] and عَلَى أَثَرِهِ , and ↓ على اـِثْرِهِ , (El-Wá'ee, Msb,) I went out, (S, &c.,) and I came, (El-Wá'ee, Msb,) after him: (M, A, K:) or at his heel: (Expos. of the Fs:) or following near upon him, or hard upon him, or near after him, or following him nearly: (Msb:) as though treading in his footsteps. (El-Wá'ee.) And أَثَرَ ذِى أَثِيرَيْنِ : see ا=ثِرٌ . (K.) ― -b2- An impress or impression, a mark, stamp, character, or trace, in a fig. sense; an effect. (The Lexicons passim.) You say, عَلَى مَاشِيَتِهِ أَثَرٌ حَسَنٌ Upon his camels, or sheep, or goats, is an impress of a good state, or condition; of fatness, and of good tending; like اـِصْبَعٌ . (TA in art. صبع .) And اـِنَّهُ لَحَسَنُ الأَثَرِفِى مَالِهِ Verily he has the impress of a good state, or condition, in his camels, or sheep, or goats; like حَسَنُ الاـِصْبَعِ , and المَسِ . (TA ubi suprà.) And عَلَيْهِ أَثَرُ كَذَا He, or it, bears the mark, stamp, character, or trace, of such a thing. (The Lexicons passim.) ― -b3- [The pl.] ا=ثَارٌ also signifies Signs, or marks, set up to show the way. (K.) ― -b4- Also the sing., i. q. أَثْرٌ , q. v. (M, L.) ― -b5- Also i. q. خَبَرٌ [both of which words are generally held to be syn., as meaning A tradition, or narration relating or describing a saying or an action &c., of Mo- hammad]: (M, K:) or, accord. to some, the former signifies what is related as received from [one or more of] the Companions of Mohammad; (TA;) but it may also be applied to a saying of the Prophet; (Kull p. 152;) and the latter, what is from Mohammad himself; (TA;) or from another; or from him or another: (Kull p. 152:) or the former signifies i. q. سُنَّةٌ [a practice or saying, or the practices and sayings collectively, of Mo- hammad, or any other person who is an authority in matters of religion, namely, any prophet, or a Companion of Mohammad, as handed down by tradition]: (S, A:) pl. ا=ثَارٌ . (S, M.) You say, وَجَدْتُهُ فِي الأَثَرِ [I found it in the traditions of the practices and sayings of the Prophet; &c.]: and فُلَانٌ مِنْ حَمَلَةِ الا=ثَارِ [Such a one is of those who bear in their memories, knowing by heart, the traditions of the practices and sayings of the Prophet; &c.]. (A.) ― -b6- A man's origin; as in the sayings, مَا يُدْرَى لَهُ أَيْنَ أَثَرٌ It is not known where was his origin; and مَا يُدْرَى لَهُ مَا أثَرٌ It is not known what is his origin. (Ks, Lh, M.) ― -b7- The term, or period, of life: so called because it follows life: (Msb, TA:) or from the same word as signifying the print of one's foot upon the ground; because when one dies, his footprints cease to be seen. (TA.) ― -b8- [For the former of these two reasons,] ا=ثَارَهُمْ in the Kur xxxvi. 11 means The rewards and punishments of their good and evil lives. (M, L.) -A2- ا=ثَارٌ is also a pl. of ثَأْرٌ , q. v.; formed by transposition from أَثْا=رٌ . (Yaa- Koob, and M in art. ثأر .)

أَثُرٌ A man who chooses for himself [in preference to his companions] (ISk, S, M, K) good things, (K,) in partition, (M, TA,) or good actions, and qualities of the mind; (ISk, S;) as also ↓ أَثِرٌ (M, K.)

أَثِرٌ : see أَثُرٌ .

أُثُرٌ : see أُثْرٌ , in two places: ― -b2- and see أَثْرٌ .

أَثُرٌ : see أَثَارَةٌ .

أُثْرَةٌ : see أَثَارَةٌ . ― -b2- A mark which is made by the Arabs of the desert upon the inner [i. e. under] part of a camel's foot; as also ↓ تَأْثُورٌ , and, accord. to some, ↓ تُوءْثُورَهُ , whence one says, رَأَيْتُ أُثْرَتَهُ , and ↓ تُوءْثُورَهُ , I saw the place of his footsteps upon the ground: (M:) or the abrasion of the inner [i. e. under] part of a camel's foot with the instrument of iron called مِيءْثَرَة and تُوءْثُور , in order that his footprints may be traced. (S.) [See also أُثْرٌ .] ― -b3- See also أَثْرٌ . ― -b4- And see مَأْثُرَةٌ . ― -b5- Preference. (A.) You say, لَهُ عِنْدِى أُثْرَةٌ He has a preference in my estimation. (A.) And هُوَ ذُو أُثْرَةٍ عِنْدَ الأَمِيرِ He has a preference in the estimation of the prince, or commander. (A.) And فُلَانٌ ذُو أُثْرَةٍ عِنْدَ فُلَانٍ , (TA,) or ↓ أَثَرَةٍ , (T,) Such a one is a favourite with such a one. (T, TA.) See also أَثَرَةٌ , in two places. ― -b6- أُثْرَةَ ذِى أَثِيرٍ : see ا=ثِرٌ . -A2- Dearth, scarcity, drought, or sterility, ( جَدْبٌ [in the CK جَذْب ],) and an unpleasant state or condition. (M, K.)

اـِثْرَةٌ أثار أثر أثرى أثره أثرة اـثر اـثره اثره اثرة ثار ثر ثري وثر آثر آثره : see أَثَرَةٌ . ― -b2- اـِثْرَةً : see ا=ثِرٌ .

أَثَرَةٌ : see أَثَارَةٌ . ― -b2- A subst. [signifying The appropriation of a thing or things to oneself exclusively: the having a thing to oneself, with none to share with him in it:] from اِسْتَأْثَرَ بِالشَّىْءِ . (S, M.) And, as also ↓ أُثْرَةٌ and ↓ اـِثْرَةٌ and ↓ اـُثْرَى , The choice for oneself [in preference to his companions] of good things, (M, * K, * TA,) in partition; (M, TA;) the choice and preference of the best of things, and taking it, or them, for oneself: (TA:) the pl. of the second is أُثَرٌ . (TA.) You say, أَخَذَهُ بِلَا أَثَرَةٍ , and ↓ بلا أُثْرَةٍ , [&c.,] He took it without a choice and preference of the best of the things, and the taking the best for himself. (T, TA.) And a poet says, فَقُلْتَ لَهُ يَا ذِيءْبُ هَلْ لَكَ فىِ أَخٍ عَلَيْكَ وَلَا بُخْلِ ↓ يُوءَاسِي بِلَا أُثْرَي [And I said to him, O wolf, hast thou a desire for a brother who will share without choice of the best things for himself in preference to thee, and without niggardness?]. (M, TA.) See also أُثْرَةٌ .

أُثْرَى : see أَثَرَةٌ , in two places.

أَثِيرٌ : see أَثَرَةٌ . ― -b2- [That makes a large footprint, or the like.] You say, دَابَّةٌ أَثِيَرةٌ A beast that makes a large footprint upon the ground with its hoof, (AZ, S, M, K,) or with its soft foot, such as that of the camel. (AZ, S.) ― -b3- A man possessing power and authority; honoured: pl. أُثَرَا=ءُ : fem. أَثِيرَةٌ . (M.) ― -b4- فُلَانٌ أَثِيرِى Such a one is my particular friend: (S, K:) or is the person whom I prefer. (A.) فُلَانٌ أَثِيرٌعِنْدَ فُلَانٍ Such a one is a favourite with such a one. (T.) ― -b5- ا=ثِرَ ذِى أَثِيرٍ , and أَوَّلَ ذِى أَثِيرٍ , &c.: see ا=ثِرٌ . ― -b6- شَىْءٌ كَثِيرٌ أَثِيرٌ [A thing very abundant, copious, or numerous]: اثير is here an imitative sequent, (S, K, *) like بَثِيرٌ . (S.) -A2- الأَثِيرُ [ ὁ αἰθήρ, The ether;] the ninth, which is the greatest, sphere, which rules over [all] the other spheres: [said to be] so called because it affects the others ( يُوءَثِرُ فِى غَيْرِهِ ). (MF.) [It is also called فَلَكُ الأَطْلَسِ , and فَلَكُ العَرْشِ ; and is said to be next above that called فَلَكُ الكُرْسِىِّ .]

أَثَارَةٌ : see أَثَرٌ . You say, سَمِنَتِ الاـبِلُ عَلَى أَثَارَةٍ , (S, M, *) or على أَثَارَةٍ مِنْ شَحْمٍ , (A,) The camels acquired fat, upon, or after, remains of fat. (S, M, * A.) And غَضِبَ عَلَي أَثَارَةٍ قِبْلَ ذَاكَ He became angry the more, having been angry before that. (Lh, M.) And أَغْضَبَنِي فُلَانٌ عَلَى أَثَارَةِ غَضَبٍ Such a one angered me when anger yet remained in me. (A.) And أَثَارَةٌ مِنْ عِلْمٍ , and ↓ أَثَرَةٌ , (T, S, M, K,) and ↓ أُثْرَةٌ , (M, K,) or ↓ أَثْرَةٌ , (T,) the first of which is the most approved, (M,) and is [originally] an inf. n., [see أَثَرَ الا=حَدِيثَ ,] (T,) signify A remain, or relic, of knowledge, (Zj, T, S, M, K, and Jel in xlvi. 3 of the Kur,) transmitted, or handed down, (K, Jel,) from the former generations: (Jel:) or what is transmitted, or handed down, of knowledge: (Zj, M:) or somewhat transmitted from the writings of the former generations: (TA:) by the knowledge spoken of [in the Kur ubi suprà] is meant that of writing, which was given to certain of the prophets. (I'Ab.)

ا=ثِرٌ ا=ثر One who relates, or recites, a tradition, narrative, or story, or traditions, &c., as received, or heard, from another, or others; a narrator thereof. (T, S, * L.) The saying of 'Omar, on his being forbidden by Mohammad to swear by his father, مَا حَلَفْتُ بِهِ ذَاكِراً وَلَا ا=ثِرًا , means I did not swear by him uttering (the oath) as proceeding in the first instance from myself, nor repeating (it) as heard from another particular person. (A'Obeyd, T, S, TA.) ― -b2- أَفْعَلُ هذَا ا=ثِرًا مَّا , (IAar, T, S, K,) and ا=ثِرًا without ما , (IAar, T,) and ↓ ا=ثِرَ ذِى أَثِيرٍ , (S, K,) mean I will do this the first of every thing. (S, K. *) And in like manner, after لَقِيتُهُ [I met him, or it], one says, ا=ثِرًا مَّا , [and ↓ ا=ثِرَ ذِى أَثِيرٍ ,] and ↓ أَوَّلَ ذِى أَثِيرٍ , (M, K,) and ا=ثِرَ ذَاتِ يَدِى , (M,) or ذَاتِ يَدَيْنِ , (K,) and ذِى يَدَيْنِ , (IAar, M, K,) and ↓ أَثِيرَةَ ذِى أَثِيرٍ , and ↓ ذِى أثِيرَيْنِ ↓ اـُثْرَةَ , (K,) and ↓ ا=ثِرَ ذِى أَثِيرَيْنِ , (M, as from Lh,) or ↓ ذِى أَثِيرَيْنِ ↓ أَثَرَ , (K,) and ↓ ذِى أَثِيرَيْنِ , ↓ اـِثْرَ and مَّا ↓ اـِثْرَةً : (Lh, M, K:) or, as some say, ↓ الأَثِيرُ signifies the daybreak, or down; and ↓ ذُو أَثِيرٍ , the time thereof. (M, TA.) Fr says that اِبْدَأْ بِهذَا ا=ثِرًا مَّا , and ↓ ا=ثِرَ ذِى أَثِيرٍ , and ↓ أَثِيرَ ذِى أَثِيرٍ , signify Begin thou with this first of every thing. (TA.) One says also, اِفْعَلْهُ , ا=ثِرًا مَّا , (T, M, TA,) and مَّا ↓ اـِثْرًا , (M, TA,) meaning Do thou it [at least], if thou do nothing else: (T, M, TA:) or, as some say, do thou it in preference to another thing, or to other things: ما being redundant, but [in this case] not to be omitted, because [it is a corroborative, and] the meaning of the phrase is, do thou it by choice, or preference, and with care. (M, TA.) Mbr says that the phrase خُذْ هذَا ا=ثِرًا مَّا means Take thou this in preference; i. e., I give it thee in preference; as though one desired to take, of another, one thing, and had another thing offered to him for sale: and ما is here redundant. (T, TA.)

تَأْثُورٌ : see ا=ُثْرَةٌ .

تُوءْثُورٌ : see ا=ثْرَةٌ , in two places: and see مِيءْثَرَةٌ , in two places.

مَأثُرَةٌ (T, S, M, K, &c.) and مَأْثَرَةٌ (S, M, K) and ↓ أُثْرَةٌ (M, K) A generous quality or action; (AZ, S;) so called because related, or handed down, by generation from generation: (S:) or a generous quality that is inherited by generation from generation: (M, K:) a generous quality, or action, related, or handed down by tradition from one's ancestors: (A:) a cause of glorying: (AZ:) and precedence in أُثْرَةٌ [or grounds of pretension to respect, &c.]: pl. of the first and second, حَسَب . (AZ, T.)

مِيءْثَرَةٌ and ↓ تُوءْثُورٌ An iron instrument (S, M, K) with which the bottom of a camel's foot is marked, in order that his footprints upon the ground may be known: (M:) or, with which the inner [i. e. under] part of a camel's foot is scraped, in order that his footprints may be traced: (S, K:) or ↓ توءثور has a different meaning, explained above, voce أُثْرَةٌ . (M.) The مِيثَرَة of a horse's saddle is without hemz. (S.)

مَأْثُورٌ A camel having a mark made upon the bottom of his foot with the iron instrument called مِيءْثَرَة , in order that his footprints upon the ground may be known: (T:) or having the inner [i. e. under] part of his foot scraped with that instrument, in order that his footprints may be traced. (S.) ― -b2- A sword having in its مَتْن [or broad side; or the middle of the broad side, of the blade,] diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, or lustre or glitter: (M, K: [in some copies of the latter of which, instead of أَثْرٌ , I find أَثَرٌ :]) or having its متن of female, or soft, iron, and its edge of male iron, or steel: (K:) or that is said to be of the fabric of the jinn, or genii; (S, M, K*) and not from الأَثْر , as signifying الفِرِنْد : (S, M:) so says As: (S:) [ISd says,] مأثور is in my opinion a pass. part. n. that has no verb: (M:) or it signifies an ancient sword, which has passed by inheritance from great man to great man. (A.) ― -b3- A tradition, narrative, or story, handed down from one to another, from generation to generation. (T, S, A.)