Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

شَطِيرٌ

Root: شطر

Full Definition

شَطِيرٌ : see شَطْرٌ, in two places.

def.2 Also Distant, or remote; applied to a town, or country, an abode, and a tribe. And so شُطُرٌ in the phrase نَوًى شُطُرٌ [A distant tract, or region, towards which one journeys]: so too شَطُورٌ in the phrase نِيَّةٌ شَطُورٌ [which may mean as above, (like نِيَّةٌ شَطُونٌ,) or a remote, or farreaching, intention, or aim, or purpose].
2 Also A stranger; because of his remoteness from his people; as in a verse cited voce إِذًا: or one who is alone, or solitary: pl. شُطُرٌ.


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