أَثَرَ
Root: اثر
Form: 1
Full Definition
def.2 أَثَرَ الحَدِيثَ, عَنِ القَوْمِ, Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun أَثْرٌ and أَثَارَهٌand أُثْرَهٌ, the last from Lh, but in my opinion, [says ISd,] it is correctly speaking a subst., and syn. with مَأْثُرَهٌand مَأْثَرَهٌ, He related, or recited, the tradition, narrative, or story, as received, or heard, from the people; transmitted the narrative, or story, by tradition, from the people: or he related that wherein they had preceded [as narrators: so I render أَنْبَأَهُمْ بِمَا سَبَقُوا فِيهِ, believing همto have been inserted by a mistake of a copyist in the M, and hence in the L also:] from الأَثَرُ. [See أَثَرٌ.] You say also, أثَرَ عَنْهُ الكَذِبَ, meaning He related, as heard from him, what was false.
2 أَثْرٌ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun أَثْرٌ, also signifies Multum inivit camelus camelam.
def.3 أَثِرَ لِلْأَمْرِ, Present.T ـَ He applied, or gave, his whole attention to the thing, or affair, having his mind unoccupied by other things.
def.4 أَثِرَ عَلَي الْأَمْرِ He determined, resolved, or decided, upon the thing, or affair.
def.5 لَقَدْ أَثِرْتُ أَنْ أَفْعَلَ كَذَا و كَذَا, Verbal.Noun أَثْرٌand أَثَرٌ, I have assuredly purposed to do such and such things.
def.6 See also 4.
def.7 And see 10.
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