فتّرهُ

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فتّرهُII , Verbal.Noun تَفْتِيرٌ, He made it to remit, or become allayed or still, after vehemence; and to become gentle after violence.
2 He made him to remit, flag, or become remiss, or languid.
3 فتّر ٱللّٰهُ الحَرَّ, Verbal.Noun as above, God made the heat to remit after vehemence; to become gentle after violence: made it to remit, abate, or flag; to become languid and faint. [And فتّر البَرْدَ He made the cold to remit, or become allayed.
4 فتّر المَآءَ He made the water to abate in heat so as to become tepid. See 1.]
5 فتّر جَسَدَهُ It heated his body, and made it to become languid, or lax in the joints, and weak; or, as some say, فتّرهُ and both signify the same, i. e., it made him, or it, [a man's body,] to become languid, or lax in the joints, and weak: or the latter, it rendered him weak, or faint: and افتر also signifies [without its objective complement's being expressed] it rendered its drinker languid, or lax in the joints, and weak; or it may have this meaning.

def.2 فتّر السَّحَابُ, Verbal.Noun as above, The cloud continued motionless, and prepared to discharge rain: or rained, and discharged all its water, and left off, and continued motionless: or became motionless: so expl. by Hammád Er-Ráwiyeh, in the following verse of Ibn-Mukbil, describing rain, or a cloud: تَأَمَّلْ خَلِيلِى هَلْ تَرَى ضَوْءَ بَارِقٍ يَمَانٍ مَرَتْهُ رِيحُ نَجْدٍ فَفَتَّرَا [Look attentively, O my friend; dost thou see the light of a cloud emitting lightning from El-Yemen, from which the wind of Nejd has drawn rain, and which has then continued motionless?].

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