Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

بَخْتَرِىٌّ

Root: بختر

Full Definition

بَخْتَرِىٌّ and بِخْتِيرٌ Elegant, or beautiful, in gait and in body; (L, K: in [some of] the copies of the K, instead of وَالجِسْمِ, is erroneously put وَالجَسِيمُ: TA:) applied to a man: or proud and self-conceited: or who walks in the manner termed تَبَخْتُرٌ [see Q. 2.]: the former epithet is also applied to a camel: the fem. of the former is with ة.


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