أَثَرَةٌ
Root: اثر
Full Definition
أَثَرَةٌ
: see أَثَارَةٌ.
2 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. And, as also أُثْرَةٌ and إِثْرَةٌ and , The choice for oneself [in preference to his companions] of good things, in partition; the choice and preference of the best of things, and taking it, or them, for oneself: the pl. of the second is أُثَرٌ. You say, أَخَذَهُ بِلَا أَثَرَةٍ, and بلا , [&c.,] He took it without a choice and preference of the best of the things, and the taking the best for himself. And a poet says,
2 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. And, as also أُثْرَةٌ and إِثْرَةٌ and , The choice for oneself [in preference to his companions] of good things, in partition; the choice and preference of the best of things, and taking it, or them, for oneself: the pl. of the second is أُثَرٌ. You say, أَخَذَهُ بِلَا أَثَرَةٍ, and بلا , [&c.,] He took it without a choice and preference of the best of the things, and the taking the best for himself. And a poet says,
[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?]. See also أُثْرَةٌ.فَقُلْتَ لَهُ يَا ذِئْبُ هَلْ لَكَ فىِ أَخٍ يُؤَاسِي بِلَا عَلَيْكَ وَلَا بُخْلِ
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