خَطْرَةٌ

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خَطْرَةٌ [Verbal.Noun of un. of خَطَرَ: and hence,] A going away; and walking with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side.
2 See also خَاطِرٌ.
3 مَا لَقِيتُهُ إِلَا خَطْرَةً [I met him not save] sometime; or sometimes. And مَا ذَكَرْتُهُ إِلَّا خَطْرَةً بَعْدَ خَطْرَةٍ [I remembered not, or mentioned not, him, or it, save sometime after sometime; i. e., save] sometimes.
4 أَصَابَتْهُ خَطْرَةٌ مِنَ الجِنِّ A touch, or stroke, from the jinn, or genii, befell him; or madness, or insanity, [proceeding] from the jinn; syn. مَسٌّ.
5 بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَهُ خَطْرَةُ رَحِمٍ app. means Between me and him is a tie of relationship.
6 رَعَيْنَا خَطَرَاتِ الوَسْمِىِّ We pastured [our beasts] upon the patches of herbage produced by the [rain called] وسمىّ.
7 خَطْرَةٌ also signifies A small quantity [or shower] of rain: pl. خِطَارٌ [and probably خَطَرَاتٌ also].
8 And one says, ↓لَا جَعَلَهَا ٱللّٰهُ خَطْرَتَهُ وَلَا جَعَلَهَا آخِرَ مَخْطَرٍ مِنْهُ [app. referring to rain, and meaning May God not make it to be the only shower, or fall, thereof, or the only time thereof; nor make it to be the last time thereof]; آخِرَ مَخْطَرٍ meaning آخِرَ عَهْدٍ.

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