أَتْوٌ
Root: اتو
Full Definition
def.2 A way, course, mode, or manner. You say, of speech, or language, and of a speaker, or reciter of a خُطْبَة, مَا زَالَ عَلَى أَتْو وَاحد It, and he, ceased not to follow one [uniform] way, &c.
def.3 An impulsion; a propulsion; particularly an act of shooting an arrow from a bow: so in a trad., where it is said, كُنَّا نَرْمِى الأَتْوَيْنِ We used to shoot one shooting and two shootings; meaning, of arrows from bows, after the prayer of sunset.
def.4 Death: or [so in the T, but in the K “and,”] a trial; or an affliction. You say, أَتَى عَلَى فُلَانٍ أَتْوٌ Death came upon such a one: or a trial; or an affliction. And إِنْ أَتَى عَلَّى أَتْوٌ فَغُلامِى حُرٌّ If I die, [or if death befall me,] my slave shall be free.
2 A vehement sickness or disease: or the fracture of an arm, or of a leg.
def.5 A gift.
2 Butter; as also أَتَآءٌ , or . (TA: [in which it is said to be like كِتَابٌ; but this I think a mistake: see أَتَآءٌ below.]) You say, when a skin of milk is agitated, and its butter comes, قَدْ جَآءَ أَتْوُهُ [Its butter has come]. And you say, لَبَنٌ ذُو Milk having butter.
def.6 A great body or corporeal form or person (شَخْصٌ عَظِيمٌ).
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