حِتَارٌ
Root: حتر
Full Definition
حِتَارٌ
The circuit, rim, or surrounding edge, of a thing; what surrounds [the whole of] a thing: pl. حُتُرٌ.
2 The hoop of a sieve [and the like].
3 The anus; syn. حَلْقَةُ الدُّبُرِ; or such is the meaning حِتَارُ الدُّبُرِ, and شَرَجُهُ: (Mgh in art. شرج:) and the extremities of its skin; i. e. the place where the external skin and the extremities of the خَوْرَان [or rectum] meet: or the edges of the دُبُر [or anus]: or the part between the anus and the anterior pudendum: or the line between the two testicles.
4 حِتَارُ الأُذُنِ The circuit of the edges of the gristles of the ear.
5 حِتَارُ العَيْنِ The edges of the eyelids, which meet when the eye is closed: or the زِيق of the eyelid, (K accord. to some copies, [and this is the right reading, meaning its edge, زيق being here used tropically, its proper signification being the “ part ” of a shirt “ that surrounds the neck, ”] as is said in the TA,) internally: in most copies of the K رَيْقُ الجَفْنِ, [in the CK رِيقُ الجُفْنِ,] with راء [not زاى].
6 حِتَارُ الظُّفُرِ The part of the flesh which is around the nail.
2 The hoop of a sieve [and the like].
3 The anus; syn. حَلْقَةُ الدُّبُرِ; or such is the meaning حِتَارُ الدُّبُرِ, and شَرَجُهُ: (Mgh in art. شرج:) and the extremities of its skin; i. e. the place where the external skin and the extremities of the خَوْرَان [or rectum] meet: or the edges of the دُبُر [or anus]: or the part between the anus and the anterior pudendum: or the line between the two testicles.
4 حِتَارُ الأُذُنِ The circuit of the edges of the gristles of the ear.
5 حِتَارُ العَيْنِ The edges of the eyelids, which meet when the eye is closed: or the زِيق of the eyelid, (K accord. to some copies, [and this is the right reading, meaning its edge, زيق being here used tropically, its proper signification being the “ part ” of a shirt “ that surrounds the neck, ”] as is said in the TA,) internally: in most copies of the K رَيْقُ الجَفْنِ, [in the CK رِيقُ الجُفْنِ,] with راء [not زاى].
6 حِتَارُ الظُّفُرِ The part of the flesh which is around the nail.
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