عَاتٍ
Root: عتو
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عَاتٍ
part. n. of 1; Proud, and immoderate, inordinate, or exorbitant: excessively, immoderately, or inordinately, proud [or corrupt or unbelieving: or revolting, recoiling, or averse, from obedience: ] i. q.
جَبَّارٌ: and
عَتِىٌّ signifies the same: pl. عُتِىٌّ, originally [عُتُوٌّ,] of the measure فُعُولٌ, the [former] و being changed into ى, agreeably with a rule which, Mohammad Ibn-Es-Seree says, should be observed in a word of this [class and] measure when it is a pl., though not [generally] when it is an Verbal.Noun, or this is pl. of عَتِىٌّ, and the pl. of عَاتٍ is عُتَاةٌ. [See also أَعْتَآءٌ, below.]
2 Also Advanced [and declining] in age: [or dried up: ] pl. عُتِىٌّ.
3 And لَيْلٌ عاتى [a mistranscription, the latter word being correctly عَاتٍ,] A night intensely dark.
2 Also Advanced [and declining] in age: [or dried up: ] pl. عُتِىٌّ.
3 And لَيْلٌ عاتى [a mistranscription, the latter word being correctly عَاتٍ,] A night intensely dark.
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