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اقترت

Root: قتر

Form: 4

Full Definition

اقترتIV She fumigated herself with aloes-wood.
2 اقتر النَّارَ He made the fire to smoke.

def.2 اقتر على عِيَالِهِ: and اقتر اللّٰه رِزْقَهُ: see 1.
2 Also اقتر He was, or became, poor, needy, or indigent: or his property became small, though some of it yet remained to him. A poet says, لَكُمْ قِبْصُهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَثْرَى وَأَقْتَرَا meaning أَتْرَى وَأَقْتَرَ مِنْ بَيْنِ مَنْ [Ye have its multitude of people, of those who have become wealthy and of those who have become poor]. [Cited voce ثَرَا. See another ex. in a verse cited in art. عى, conj. 4.]

def.3 See also 8.
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