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دَاثِرٌ

Root: دثر

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دَاثِرٌ , applied to a trace, or mark, of a house; or to what remains, cleaving to the ground, marking the place of a house; Being covered with sand and dust blown over it by the wind; or being effaced, or obliterated, by the blowing of the winds over it. You say فُلَانٌ جَدُّهُ عَاثِرٌ وَ رَسْمُهُ دَاثِرٌ Such a one's good fortune is at an end, and his vestige is being effaced.
2 In a state of perdition. Hence the saying فُلَانٌ خَاسِرٌ دَاسِرٌ [Such a one is erring, in a state of perdition]: or it is here an imitative sequent [merely corroborative; for خاسر has also the same signification]: and some say دَابِرٌ.
3 A sword sullied by remaining long unpolished; rusty.
4 Negligent; inconsiderate; as also أَدْثَرُ and [written without the syll. signs]: one who does not care for, or esteem, finery.
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