خِطْرٌ
Root: خطر
Full Definition
خِطْرٌ
A large number of camels: or forty: or two hundred; and the like of sheep or goats: or a thousand thereof: and more: and
خَطْرٌ signifies the same: pl. أَخْطَارٌ.
def.2 A certain plant, with which one dyes or tinges, himself or his hair, its leaves being put into black dye: it resembles the plant called كَتَم, with which it often grows; and old men dye their hair with it: or [the plant called] وَسْمَة: [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة.
2 Hence,
3 And A branch of a tree: pl. خِطَرَةٌ, which is extr.; or as though the ة were imagined to be elided.
def.2 A certain plant, with which one dyes or tinges, himself or his hair, its leaves being put into black dye: it resembles the plant called كَتَم, with which it often grows; and old men dye their hair with it: or [the plant called] وَسْمَة: [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة.
2 Hence,
3 And A branch of a tree: pl. خِطَرَةٌ, which is extr.; or as though the ة were imagined to be elided.
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