أَثَرٌ
Root: اثر
Full Definition
2 An impress or impression, a mark, stamp, character, or trace, in a fig. sense; an effect. You say, عَلَى مَاشِيَتِهِ أَثَرٌ حَسَنٌ Upon his camels, or sheep, or goats, is an impress of a good state, or condition; of fatness, and of good tending; like إِصْبَعٌ. (TA in art. صبع.) And إِنَّهُ لَحَسَنُ الأَثَرِفِى مَالِهِ Verily he has the impress of a good state, or condition, in his camels, or sheep, or goats; like حَسَنُ الإِصْبَعِ, and المَسِ. And عَلَيْهِ أَثَرُ كَذَا He, or it, bears the mark, stamp, character, or trace, of such a thing.
3 [The pl.] آثَارٌalso signifies Signs, or marks, set up to show the way.
4 Also the sing., i. q. أَثْرٌ, q. v.
5 Also i. q. خَبَرٌ [both of which words are generally held to be syn., as meaning A tradition, or narration relating or describing a saying or an action &c., of Mo- hammad]: or, accord. to some, the former signifies what is related as received from [one or more of] the Companions of Mohammad; but it may also be applied to a saying of the Prophet; and the latter, what is from Mohammad himself; or from another; or from him or another: or the former signifies i. q. سُنَّةٌ[a practice or saying, or the practices and sayings collectively, of Mo- hammad, or any other person who is an authority in matters of religion, namely, any prophet, or a Companion of Mohammad, as handed down by tradition]: pl. آثَارٌ. You say, وَجَدْتُهُ فِي الأَثَرِ[I found it in the traditions of the practices and sayings of the Prophet; &c.]: and فُلَانٌ مِنْ حَمَلَةِ الآثَارِ[Such a one is of those who bear in their memories, knowing by heart, the traditions of the practices and sayings of the Prophet; &c.].
6 A man's origin; as in the sayings, مَا يُدْرَى لَهُ أَيْنَ أَثَرٌ It is not known where was his origin; and مَا يُدْرَى لَهُ مَا أثَرٌ It is not known what is his origin.
7 The term, or period, of life: so called because it follows life: or from the same word as signifying the print of one's foot upon the ground; because when one dies, his footprints cease to be seen.
8 [For the former of these two reasons,] آثَارَهُمْin the Kur xxxvi. 11 means The rewards and punishments of their good and evil lives.
def.2 آثَارٌis also a pl. of ثَأْرٌ, q. v.; formed by transposition from أَثْآرٌ. (Yaa- Koob, and M in art. ثأر.)
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