Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

اِثَّأَرَ

Root: ثأر

Form: 8

Full Definition

اِثَّأَرَVIII originally اِثْتَأَرَ He obtained his bloodrevenge, or retaliation; syn. أَدْرَك ثَأْرَهُ; مِنْهُ from him; as also : and اِثَّأَرَ مِنْهُ he slew the slayer of his relation. Lebeed says, وَالنِّيبُ إِنْ تَعْرُ مِنِّى رِمَّةً خَلَقًا * بَعْدَ المَمَاتِ فَإِنِّى كُنْتُ أَثَّئِرُ * [And the old she-camels, if they seek to obtain benefit from a worn rotten bone of me after death, I used to retaliate upon them by anticipation]: i. e., I used to slaughter [some of] them for guests, and so I have retaliated upon them during my life for their nibbling my rotten bones after my death: for when camels do not find herbage of the kind called حَمْض, they eat the bones of dead men and of camels instead thereof.
2 See also 1.


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