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ق ط ر

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Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root قطر. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

قَطَرَ , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. قَطُرَ , (S, Msb,) inf. n. قَطْرٌ and قَطَرَانٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and قُطُورٌ ; (K;) [and in an intensive sense, تَقْطَارٌ (see a verse cited voce غُسْلٌ );] and ↓ اقطر ; (AHn, TA;) and ↓ تقاطر ; (Msb, TA;) said of water, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and of tears, (K,) or other fluid, (S, * TA,) [It dropped, dripped, or fell in drops;] it flowed (Mgh, Msb, TA) drop by drop. (Msb.) ― -b2- It occurs in a trad. as signifying قَطَرَ عَرَقًا , or بَوْلًا , [He let fall sweat, or urine, in drops,] in which each subst, is in the accus. case as a specificative: said of a person in intense awe or fear. (Mgh.) ― -b3- قَطَرَ الصَّمْغُ مِنَى الشَّجَرَةِ The gum [exuded in drops or] came forth from the tree. (TA.) ― -b4- قَطَرَتِ ا@سْتُهُ i. q. مَصَلَت [His anus voided excrement in drops]. (K.) -A2- قَطَرَ فِى الأَرْضِ inf. n. قُطُورٌ , (tropical:) He went away into the country, or in the land; (S, K; *) and hastened; (K, * TA;) as also مَطَرَ , inf. n. مُطُورٌ . (TA.) -A3- قَطَرَهُ , (As, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) [aor. قَطُرَ ,] inf. n. قَطْرٌ ; (Mgh;) and ↓ اقطرهُ , (Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. اـِقْطَارٌ ; (Msb;) or the latter but not the former accord. to AZ; (Msb;) and ↓ قطّرهُ , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَقْطِيرٌ ; (S, Mgh, Msb;) He (God, K, or a man, S, Msb) made it (namely water &c.) [to drop, drip, dribble, or fall in drops;] to flow (S, Msb, TA) drop by drop: (S, Msb:) he poured it out, or forth. (Mgh.) You say قَطَرْتُ المَا=ءَ فِى الحَلْقِ , and أَقْطَرْتُهُ , and قَطَّرْتُهُ , [He made the water to fall drop by drop into the throat.] (Msb.) ― -b2- مَا قَطَرَكَ عَلَيْنَا (tropical:) What hath poured thee ( مَا صَبَّكَ ) upon us? (TA.) ― -b3- قَطَرَ فُلَانًا , (Lth, K,) inf. n. قَطْرٌ , (Lth,) (assumed tropical:) He prostrated such a one with vehemence. (Lth, K.) [Perhaps this is from قُطْرٌ , signifying the “ side; ” and if so it is not tropical. See also 2.] ― -b4- قَطَرَ الثَّوْبَ (tropical:) He sewed the garment, or piece of cloth. (IAar, K.) -A4- قَطَرَ الاـِبِلَ , (Msb, K,) aor. قَطُرَ , (Msb,) inf. n. قَطْرٌ ; (Msb, K;) and ↓ قطّرها , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَقْطِيرٌ ; (S;) but this has an intensive signification; (Msb;) and ↓ اقطرها ; (K;) but this [says SM] I do not find in the [other] lexicons; Az and ISd mention only the first and second; (TA;) He disposed the camels in a file, string, or series; (S, * Msb;) he placed the camels near, one to another, in a file, string, or series; (K;) [and tied the halter of each, except the first, to the tail of the next before it.] It is said in a proverb, الجَلَبَ ↓ النُّفَاضُ يَقَطِّرُ The failure of provisions causes the camels, driven or brought from one place to another, to be disposed in files for sale. (S.) -A5- قَطَرَ البَعِيرَ He smeared the camel with قَطِرَان [or tar]. (S, Msb.)

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قطّرهُ : see 1. ― -b2- بِهِ تَقْطِيرٌ [He has a dribbling of his urine] is said of a man who cannot retain his urine, (Mgh, K, *) by reason of cold affecting the bladder. (TA.) -A2- قطّر الاـِبِلَ : see 1. -A3- طَعَنَهُ فَقَطَّرَهُ (inf. n. تَقْطِيرٌ , S) He pierced him [with his spear] and threw him down on one of his sides. (S, Msb.) And قطّرهُ فَرَسُهُ ; in the copies of the K قطّرهُ عَلَى فَرَسِهِ , but this is a mistake; (TA;) and ↓ اقطرهُ ; and بِه ↓ تقطّر ; (K;) vulgarly تَقَنْطَرَ بِهِ ; (TA;) His horse threw him down on one of his sides. (K, * TA.) See قُطْرٌ : see also 1. -A4- قطّر ثَوْبَهُ , inf. n. as above, He fumigated his garment with قُطْر , i. e., aloes-wood. (K.)

اقطر : see 1. ― -b2- It was time for it to drop, drip, or fall in drops; it was ready, or near, to drop, &c.; expl. by حَانَ لَهُ أَنْ يَقْطُرَ , (S,) and حَانَ أَنْ يَقْطُرَ . (K.) -A2- اقطرهُ : see 1. -A3- اقطر الاـِبِلَ : see 1. -A4- اقطرهُ فَرَسُهُ : see 2.

تقطّر , quasi-pass. of 2, [It was made to drop, drip, or fall in drops; &c. See an ex. in a verse cited voce تَسَقَّى . ― -b2- ] He fell [upon his side]. (S.) ― -b3- تقطّر بِهِ فَرَسُهُ : see 2. -A2- تقطّرت She fumigated herself with قُطْر , i. e., aloes-wood. (K.)

تَقَاْطَرَ see 1. -A2- تقاطر القَوْمُ (tropical:) The people came in consecutive companies; from قِطَارُ الاـِبِلِ . (S, TA.) And hence also, تقاطرت كُتُبُ فُلَانٍ (tropical:) [The books, or letters, of such a one followed one another in a regular series]. (TA.)

استقطرهُ He sought, or desired, its dropping, or dripping, or flowing; [endeavoured to make it drop, or drip;] expl. by رَامَ قَطَرَانَهُ , (K, TA,) i. e., سَيَلَانَهُ . (TA.) ― -b2- استقطر مَعْرُوفًا [He sought, or demanded, bounty, as it were drop by drop]. (K in art. نض .)

قَنْطَرَ : see art. قنطر .

تَقَنْطَرَ : see art. قنطر .

قَطْرٌ [Drops;] pl. of قَطْرَةٌ : (S:) [or rather a coll. gen. n., having this signification; or] what drops, (K,) of water &c.: (TA:) n. un. قَطْرَةٌ ; (K;) which signifies a drop: (Msb:) pl. of the former, قِطَارٌ : (K:) and of the latter, قَطَرَاتٌ . (Msb.) [See also قُطَارَةٌ .] You say سَالَ قَطْرَةً قَطْرَةً It flowed drop by drop. (Msb.) ― -b2- Rain: (S, Msb:) n. un. قَطْرَةٌ [signifying a rain; a shower of rain]: (Msb:) pl. of the former, قِطَارٌ . (S.)

قُطْرٌ A side, part, portion, quarter, tract, or region, (S, Msb, K,) of the heavens, and of the earth; (TA;) as also قُتْرٌ (S, K, art. قتر ,) and قُتُرٌ : (K, ibid.) either side of a man: pl. أَقْطَارٌ . (S, Msb, K.) You say أَلْقَاهُ على احد قُطْرَيْهِ He threw him down on one of his sides. (S, * Msb, * K, * TA.) And لَا أَدْرِى عَلَى أَىِّ قُطْرَيْهِ يَقَعُ [I know not on which of his two sides he will fall; i. e., what will be his final state]. (JK.) And the pl. signifies The outer parts or regions ( نَوَاحٍ ) of a horse, and of a camel: the prominent parts of a horse, such as the withers ( الكَاثِبَة ) and the rump: the prominent parts of the upper portions of a camel, and of a mountain. (TA.) ― -b2- فُطْرُ دَايءِرَةٍ [The diameter of a circle;] a straight line extending from one side of a circle to the other side so that its middle falls upon the centre (KT.) [But this is app. post-classical.] -A2- قُطْرٌ (S, K) and ↓ قُطُرٌ (S) Aloes-wood with which one fumigates. (S, K.)

قِطْرٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ قَطِرٌ (ISk, TA) Copper, or brass: (S, Mgh, Msb:) so in the Kur [xiv. 51, accord. to one reading,] مِنْ قِطْرٍ ا=نٍ (S,) or مِنْ قَطِرٍ ا=نٍ , accord. to the reading of I'Ab, meaning, of copper, or brass, in the utmost state of heat: (TA:) [but the common reading is مِنْ قَطِرَانٍ :] or copper, or brass, in a state of fusion: (K:) so in the Kur, xxxiv. 11 (TA) [and xviii. 95]: or a certain kind thereof: (K:) or molten iron: (Mgh, Msb:) and anything that drops or flows ( يَقْطُرُ ) by fusion or melting, like water. (Mgh.)

قَطِرٌ : see قِطْرٌ .

قُطُرٌ : see قُطْرٌ .

قَطْرَةٌ : see قَطْرٌ , in two places.

قَطِرَانٌ (S, Msb, K) and قِطْرَانٌ (Msb, K) and قَطْرَانٌ (K) [Tar, or liquid pitch;] what exudes from the tree called أَبْهَل , [or juniper, or the species of juniper called savin, both of which have this name in the present day,] (Msb, K, * TA,) and from the أَرْز [or pine-tree], and the like, (K, TA,) when subjected to the action of fire; (lit. when cooked;) used for smearing [mangy] camels, (Msb, TA,) &c.; (Msb;) i. q. هِنَا=ءٌ . (S.) [See also زِفْتٌ .]

قُطَارٌ A cloud, (K,) or rain, (TA,) having large drops. (K, TA.)

قِطَارٌ A file, string, or series, of camels; a number of camels disposed in one series; (JK, Msb, K; *) one behind another; (JK;) [the halter of each, except the first, being tied to the tail of the next before it:] and the poet Abu-n-Nejm speaks of a قِطَار of ants: (S:) of the measure فِعَالٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ : (Msb:) pl. قُطُرٌ (S, Msb) and, (S,) or pl. pl., (Msb,) قُطُرَاتٌ ; (S, Msb;) vulg. قِطَارَاتٌ . (TA.)

قَطُورٌ and مِقْطَارٌ A cloud having many drops, or much rain. (Th, AAF, K.)

قُطَارَةٌ What drops, or drips, ( مَا قَطَرَ ,) from a jar ( حُبّ ) and the like: (Lh, S:) or from a thing. (K.) See also قَطْرٌ . ― -b2- A small quantity of water. (Lh, K. *) Ex. فِى الاـِنَا=ءِ قُطَارَةٌ مِنْ مَا=ءٍ In the vessel is a little water. (Lh.)

قَاطِرٌ Any gum that exudes in drops, or comes forth, ( يَقْطُرُ ,) from trees. (IDrd, K. *) ― -b2- القّاطِرُ المَكِّىُّ : see دَمٌ in art. دمو . ― -b3- A camel whose urine continually dribbles. (S, K.)

قَنْطَرَةٌ and قِنْطَارٌ &c.: see art. قنطر .

مِقْطَرَةٌ [A kind of stocks]: see عِلْبَةٌ and فَلَقٌ .

مَقْطُورٌ . ― -b2- أَرْضٌ مَقْطُورَةٌ Land rained upon. (K, TA.) -A2- بَعِيرٌ مَقْطُورٌ , and ↓ مُقَطْرَنٌ , (S, K,) the latter after the form of the original [ قَطِرَانٌ ], (S, TA.) A camel smeared with قَطِرَان [or tar]. (S, K.)

مُقَطْرَنٌ : see مَقْطُورٌ .

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