فَتْرَةٌ
Root: فتر
Full Definition
فَتْرَةٌ
Languor, or remissness; and weakness, feebleness, or faintness; an affection like a weakness, feebleness, or faintness: and
فَتَرٌ also signifies weakness, feebleness, or faintness. One says, أَجِدُ فِى نَفْسِى فَتْرَةً
I experience in myself an affection like a weakness, &c.
2 An interval of time [between things: (S and K in art. وتر; &c.:) or] between any two prophets, or between two of God's apostles, during which there is a cessation of the apostolic function: or a cessation of the mission of apostles, and a state of effacement of the signs of their religion: so in the Kur v. 22.
def.2 See also what next follows.
2 An interval of time [between things: (S and K in art. وتر; &c.:) or] between any two prophets, or between two of God's apostles, during which there is a cessation of the apostolic function: or a cessation of the mission of apostles, and a state of effacement of the signs of their religion: so in the Kur v. 22.
def.2 See also what next follows.
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