مِعْطِيرٌ

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مِعْطِيرٌ , applied to a woman, or to a man and a woman, and مِعْطَارٌ , applied to a woman, or to a man and a woman, and , One who perfumes himself, and herself, much; and who frequently does so: and مِعْطَارٌ and a woman who is accustomed to do so: pl. مَعَاطِيرُ. Lh says that an epithet of the measure مِفْعَالٌ is mase. and fem. without ة, except in some extraordinary instances, in which the fem. is with ة.
2 Also مِعْطِيرٌ, A she-camel red, and whose sweat has a sweet odour. In [some of] the copies of the K, طَيِّبَةُ العَرْفِ is put by mistake for طيّبة العَرَق.

def.2 See also عَطَّارٌ.

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