سُتْرَةٌ
Root: ستر
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سُتْرَةٌ
: see سِتْرٌ.
2 Its predominant application is to A thing which a person praying sets up before him; [sticking it in the ground, or laying it down if the ground be hard, in order that no living being or image may be the object next before him;] such as a whip, and a staff having a pointed iron at its lower extremity. [See عَنَزَةٌ: and see my “ Modern Egyptians, ” 5th ed., p. 72.]
3 Also A parapet, or surrounding wall, of a flat house-top.
4 And i. q. ظُلَّةٌ [q. v.].
2 Its predominant application is to A thing which a person praying sets up before him; [sticking it in the ground, or laying it down if the ground be hard, in order that no living being or image may be the object next before him;] such as a whip, and a staff having a pointed iron at its lower extremity. [See عَنَزَةٌ: and see my “ Modern Egyptians, ” 5th ed., p. 72.]
3 Also A parapet, or surrounding wall, of a flat house-top.
4 And i. q. ظُلَّةٌ [q. v.].
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