عُطَاسٌ

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عُطَاسٌ : see عَطْسَةٌ.
2 العُطَاسُ The dawn, or daybreak; as also . You say, جَآءَ فُلَانٌ قَبْلَ طُلُوعِ العُطَاسِ and هُبُوبِ العُطَاسِ [Such a one came before the rising of the dawn]. And a poet says, وَقَدْ أَغْتَدِى قَبْلَ العُطَاسِ بِسَابِحِ [And sometimes I go early in the morning, before dawn, with a horse that runs stretching out his fore legs gracefully as if swimming]: but As relates that the meaning is said to be, before I hear the sneeze of a sneezer and augur evil from it; and that he had not heard any authority worthy of reliance for the meaning assigned by Lth.

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