Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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وَطَرٌ

وَطَرٌ A want; an object of want or need: (Zj, Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ:) or one which one purposes to accomplish: (Lth:) or for which one is anxious, (A, Ḳ,) or desirous: (Mṣb:) pl. أَوْطَارٌ. (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ.) It has no verb. (Kh, Ṣ, Mṣb.) You say, قَضَيْتُ وَطَرِى I accomplished, or obtained, my want,, &c. (A, Mṣb, Ḳ.) And قَضَيْتُ مِنْ كَذَا وَطَرِى I accomplished my want of such a thing [so as to have no further need of it: see Ḳur, xxxiii. 37, in two places]. (Lth.)


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