عِتْرَةٌ

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عِتْرَةٌ The stem, or stock, of a tree: on the authority of Aboo-Sa'eed and IAar: and the branches of a tree.
2 [And hence,] The people, or tribe, of a man, consisting of his nearer relations, both the dead and the living: or his relations: or his relations consisting of his offspring and his paternal uncle's sons: or his relations consisting of his offspring and of others: or the more distinguished of one's relations: or the people of a man's house, the more near and more distant: and a man's offspring, or progeny; which is said to be the only meaning of the word known to the Arabs; or imagined by the vulgar to be its meaning peculiarly. عِتْرَةُ النَّبِىِّ means [The nearer portion of the tribe of the Prophet, consisting of] the sons of 'Abd-El-Mut- talib: or 'Abd-El-Muttalib and his sons: or the offspring of Fátimeh: or the nearer members of the house of the Prophet, consisting of his own offspring and of 'Alee and his offspring: or the nearer and the more distant in relationship of the house of the Prophet: or, as is commonly held, the people of the house of the Prophet; who are those from whom it is forbidden to exact the poor-rate, and those to whom is assigned the fifth of the fifth mentioned in the Soorat el-Anfál [the eighth chapter of the Kur-án, verse 42].

def.2 Also n. un. of عِتْرٌ [q. v.].

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