فَطِيرٌ
Root: فطر
Full Definition
فَطِيرٌ
Dough unleavened; or not left until it has become good [or mature]; contr. of
خَمِيرٌ: and in like manner clay, or mud. [Hence,] عِيدُ الفَطِيرِ [The feast of unleavened bread; also called, of the Passover;] a festival of the Jews, [commencing] on the fifteenth day of their month
نِيسَان, and lasting seven days. (Msb. [See also الفِصْحُ.])
2 Anything prepared, made, or done, hastily, or hurried, so as to prevent its becoming mature: fresh; recent; newly made: pl. فَطْرَى: for أَطْعَمَهُ فَطْرَى, in the K, expl. as meaning [He fed him] with فَطِير, is a gross mistake, a mistranscription of أَطْعِمَةٌ فَطْرَى, as the phrase stands in the handwriting of Sgh himself, in wellformed letters, and with the syll. signs, meaning meats [newly prepared, &c.]. You say عِنْدِى خُبْزٌ خَمِيرٌ وَحَيْسٌ فَطِيرٌ [I have leavened bread, and] fresh, recent, or newly made, حيس [q. v.]. You say also إِيَّاكَ وَالرَّأْىَ الفَطِيرُ
3 A skin not saturated with the tanning liquid: or not put therein: a whip not tanned: not softly tanned: or not newly tanned.
def.2 Also A calamity; syn. دَاهِيَةٌ.
2 Anything prepared, made, or done, hastily, or hurried, so as to prevent its becoming mature: fresh; recent; newly made: pl. فَطْرَى: for أَطْعَمَهُ فَطْرَى, in the K, expl. as meaning [He fed him] with فَطِير, is a gross mistake, a mistranscription of أَطْعِمَةٌ فَطْرَى, as the phrase stands in the handwriting of Sgh himself, in wellformed letters, and with the syll. signs, meaning meats [newly prepared, &c.]. You say عِنْدِى خُبْزٌ خَمِيرٌ وَحَيْسٌ فَطِيرٌ [I have leavened bread, and] fresh, recent, or newly made, حيس [q. v.]. You say also إِيَّاكَ وَالرَّأْىَ الفَطِيرُ
3 A skin not saturated with the tanning liquid: or not put therein: a whip not tanned: not softly tanned: or not newly tanned.
def.2 Also A calamity; syn. دَاهِيَةٌ.
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