إِرَاتٌ

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إِرَاتٌ Fire; as also إِرَاثَةٌ and أَرِيثٌ : or tinder, and the like, prepared for fire; [as also إِرَاثَةٌ and أُرْثَةٌ ; or these two words signify a means of kindling or inflaming; as will be seen from what follows:] or a lump of the dung of a horse or the like, or a similar thing, with which one kindles a fire; as also أُرْثَةٌ : or this last signifies dung of camels or horses or the like, or wood, or a stick, that is prepared, or put in readiness, by the ashes, or buried in them, for the time when it may be wanted for fuel. It is said in a prov., mentioned in the collection of Meyd, العَدَاوَةِ [Calumny, or slander, is a means of kindling, or inflaming, enmity]. (TA: but in Freytag's Arab. Prov., ii. 773, in the place of اراثة, we find .)

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