عَتَرَ
Root: عتر
Form: 1
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عَتَرَI
, Present.T
ـِ Verbal.Noun عَتْرٌ [and تَعْتَارٌ , a form denoting repetition, or frequency, of the action, or its application to several objects, or it may be an Verbal.Noun of which the verb is
عتّر ], He slaughtered [or sacrificed] an عَتِيرَة, [i. e.] a sheep or goat, or a gazelle or the like. Sometimes a man, of the people of the Time of Ignorance, made a vow that, if he should see what he loved, he would slaughter such and such of his sheep or goats; and when the performance of the vow became obligatory, he would be unwilling to do so, and would slaughter gazelles instead of the sheep or goats: sometimes he would say, “ If my camels amount to a hundred, I will slaughter for them an عَتِيرَة; ” but when they amounted to a hundred, he would be niggardly of the sheep or goat, and would hunt a gazelle, and slaughter it. One says, هٰذِهِ أَيَّامُ تَرْجِيبٍ and تَعْتَارٍ [These are days of the sacrificing of the
عَتِيرَة].
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