ṭīra

evil omen

طِيرَة

Word

Noun · pattern فِعلَة

Root

ط ي ر

From the same root

All words from ط ي ر →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • طَارَ Form I He (a winged creature) moved in the air by means of his wings; flew
    , aor. يَطِيرُ, (S, Msb,) inf. n. طَيَرَانٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and طَيْرُورَةٌ (Lh, S, K, &c.) and طَيْرٌ, (K,) He (a winged creature) moved in the air by means of his wings; flew; (A, K;) moved in the air as a beast does upon the ground. (Msb.) ― -b2- It is also said of other things than those which have wings; as in the saying of El- 'Amberee (Kureyt Ibn-Uneyf, Ham p. 3): " طَارُوا إِلَيْهِ زَرَافَاتٍ وَوُحْدَانَا " [They fly to it in companies and one by one]; (TA;) i. e. they hasten to it: for طِرْتُ إِلَى كَذَا means (assumed tropical:) I hastened to such a thing: and طِرْتُ بِكَذَا (assumed tropical:) I outstripped, or became foremost, with such a thing. (Ham p. 6.) And طار عَلَى مَتْنِ فَرَسِهِ (tropical:) He fled upon the back of his horse. (TA, from a trad.) And طار القَوْمُ (assumed tropical:) The people took fright and ran away quickly. (Msb.) And طَارُوا سِرَاعًا (assumed tropical:) They went away quickly. (TA.) ― -b3- [One says also, طار عُقْلُهُ (assumed tropical:) His reason fled. And طار فُوأَادُهُ (tropical:) His courage (lit. his heart) fled away: see also 10: and see شَعَاعٌ. (Both are phrases of frequent occurrence.)] ― -b4- And طار طَايأرُهُ: see طَايأِرٌ. ― -b5- [And see an ex. voce شِقَّةٌ.] ― -b6- طار قَلْبِى مَطَارَهُ means (assumed tropical:) My heart inclined towards that which it loved, and clung to it. (TA, from a trad.) And طِيرِى بِهِ, addressed to a woman, is expl. by IAar as meaning (assumed tropical:) Love thou, or become attached, to him. (TA.) ― -b7- طارت عَيْنُهُ (S and K in art. خلج) (assumed tropical:) His eye throbbed. (PS and TK in that art.) ― -b8- طار لَهُ صِيتٌ فِى النَّاسِ (tropical:) [He became famous among the people; lit. means fame among the people became, or came to be, (صَارَ,) his]. (A.) [And in like manner one says,] طار لَهُ مِنْ نَصِيبِهِ كَذَا (tropical:) Such a thing became his, or came to him, of his lot, or portion; syn. صَارَ, and حَصَلَ. (Mgh.) And طار لَنَا (tropical:) It came to our lot, or portion. (TA.) And طار لِكُلٍّ مِنْهُمْ سَهْمُهُ (tropical:) The share of each came to him. (TA.) ― -b9- See also 6, in two places. -A2- طَارَ بِهِ is also syn. with طَيَّرَهُ, q. v. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence the metaphorical phrase طَارَتْ بِهَا العَرَبُ expl. voce عَرَبَةٌ.] ― -b3- طارت الإِبِلُ بِآذَانِهَا, (TA,) or بِأَذْنَابِهَا, (O, TA,) thus [correctly] in the TS, (TA,) [like شَالَتْ بِأَذْنَابِهَا,] means (assumed tropical:) The she-camels conceived. (O, TA.)
  • طيّرهُ Form II He made him to fly
    , (S, A, Msb, K,) and طيّر بِهِ, (K,) and ↓ اطارهُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) and ↓ طايرهُ, (S, K,) and بِهِ ↓ طَارَ, (TA,) He made him to fly. (A, Msb, K.) [See also 10.] ― -b2- طَيَّرَ العَصَافِيرَ عَنِ الزَّرْعِ He made the sparrows to fly away, [scared them, or dispersed them,] from the seedproduce. (A.) ― -b3- هُمْ فِى شَىْءٍ لَا يُطَيَّرُ غُرَابُهُ [They are in that whereof the crow is not made to fly away, because of its abundance]: a prov. alluding to a state of plenty. (S, TA.) [See also غُرَابٌ.] One says also أُطِيرَ الغُرَابُ [The crow was made to fly away]. (S.) [See مُطَارٌ.] ― -b4- طيّر فُوأَادَهُ (tropical:) [He, or it, made his courage (lit. his heart) to fly away]. (S in art. فز, &c.) ― -b5- طيّر المَالَ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ, and ↓ اطارهُ, He divided the property into lots, or shares, among the people: (O, K, * TA:) أَطَرْتُ, signifying I divided into lots, or shares, occurs in a trad.; but some say that the أ is a radical letter. (IAth, TA.) ― -b6- طيّر الفَحْلُ الإِبِلَ means (assumed tropical:) The stallion made all the she-camels to conceive: (K, TA:) or, to conceive quickly. (TA.) And طَيَّرَتْ هِىَ [or طُيِّرَتْ?] They conceived quickly. (TA.)
  • طَاْيَرَ Form III Open entry
    see 2, first sentence.
  • أَطْيَرَ Form IV Our land abounded, or became abundant, in birds
    see 2, in two places. -A2- اطارت أَرْضُنَا Our land abounded, or became abundant, in birds. (TA.)
  • تطيّر مِنْهُ Form V He augured evil from it; regarded it as an evil omen
    , (S, A, Msb, K,) and بِهِ, (S, K,) sometimes changed to اِطَّيَّرَ, (S, A, Msb,) as in the Kur xxvii. 48, the ت being incorporated into the ط, and this requiring a conjunctive ا that the word may begin with it [and not with a quiescent letter], (S,) inf. n. [or rather quasi-inf. n.] طِيَرَةٌ, the only instance of the kind except خِيَرَةٌ, which is the same in relation to تَخَيَّرَ, (IAth,) He augured evil from it; regarded it as an evil omen. (S, Msb, K.) The Arabs, when they desired to set about an affair, passed by the places where birds lay upon the ground, and roused them, in order to learn thence whether they should proceed or refrain: but the law forbade this. (Msb.) They augured evil from the croaking of the crow, and from the birds' going towards the left; and in like manner, from the motions of gazelles. (TA.) تَفَآءَلَ signifies the contr. of تطيّر. (TA.)
  • تطاير Form VI It became scattered, or dispersed
    (assumed tropical:) It became scattered, or dispersed; (S, K, TA;) flew away or about; went away; became reduced to fragments; (TA;) as also ↓ استطار, (K, TA,) and ↓ طَارَ. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) It became long, or tall; (S, K;) as also ↓ طَارَ, (Sgh, K,) which is said of hair, (TA,) as is also the former, (S, TA,) and of a camel's hump. (Sgh, TA.) It is said in a trad., خُذْ مَا تَطَايَرَ مِنْ شَعَرِكَ (S, TA) [Clip thou] what has become long and dishevelled [of thy hair]. (TA.) ― -b3- تطاير السَّحَابُ فِى السَّمَآءِ (assumed tropical:) The clouds became spread throughout the sky. (K, TA.) [See also 10.]
  • انطار Form VII It became split, slit, or cracked
    It became split, slit, or cracked. (K, TA.) [See also 10, latter part.]
  • استطار Form X He made
    [He made a thing to fly. See also 2. ― -b2- Hence,] (assumed tropical:) He drew forth a sword quickly from its scabbard. (K, * TA.) ― -b3- اُسْتُطِيرَ (assumed tropical:) It (for ex., dust, S) was made to fly. (S, K.) You say, كَادَ يُسْتَطَارُ مِنْ شِدَّةِ عَدْوِهِ (tropical:) [He was almost made to fly by reason of the vehemence of his running]. (A.) And اُسْتُطِيرَ فُوأَادُهُ مِنَ الفَزَعِ (tropical:) [His courage (lit. his heart) was made to fly away by reason of fright]. (A.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) He was taken away quickly, as though the birds carried him away. (TA.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) He hastened, or was quick, in running; (K;) he ran quickly; (O, L;) said of a horse. (O, L, K.) [A signification of the pass. form; as though meaning he was made to fly.] ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) He was [flurried, or] frightened. (O, K.) [As though meaning originally he was made to fly by reason of fright.] -A2- استطار (tropical:) It (the dawn) spread; (S, A, Msb, K;) its light spread in the horizon: (TA:) [see مُسْتَطِيرٌ:] and the verb is used in the same sense in relation to other things: (S:) said of lightning, it spread in the horizon: and of dust, it spread in the air: and of evil, it spread. (TA.) See also 6. ― -b2- (tropical:) It (a crack in a wall) appeared and spread. (A. [See also استطال.]) It (a slit, or crack, for السُّوقُ in the K is a mistake for الشَّقُّ, or, accord. to the L, a crack in a wall, TA) rose, (K,) and appeared. (TA.) (assumed tropical:) It (a crack in a glass vessel, and wear in a garment,) became apparent in the parts thereof. (TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) It (a wall) cracked (K, TA) from the beginning thereof to the end. (TA.) (assumed tropical:) It (a glass vessel) showed a crack in it from beginning to end. (TA.) [See also 7.] -A3- استطارت said of a bitch, She desired the male. (O, K.)
  • طَيْرٌ Open entry
    : see طَايأِرٌ, in seven places: ― -b2- and see also طَيْرَةٌ, in two places. -A2- طَيْرُ طَيْرُ, (O,) or طَيْرِ طَيْرِ, (TA,) is a cry by which a sheep or goat is called. (O, TA.)
  • طَيْرَةٌ Levity; inconstancy
    and ↓ طَيْرُورَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ طَيْرٌ (S) (tropical:) Levity; inconstancy. (S, K, TA.) You say, فِى فُلَانٍ طَيْرَةٌ and ↓ طَيْرُورَةٌ, (tropical:) In such a one is levity, or inconstancy. (S.) And ↓ اُزْجُرْ أَحْنَآءَ طَيْرِكَ (tropical:) [alluding to the original signification of طَيْرٌ, namely, “ birds, ”] means جَوَانِبَ خِفَّتِكَ وَطَيْشِكَ [agreeing with an explanation of the same saying voce حِنْوٌ, q. v.]. (S.) ― -b2- Also طَيْرَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A slip; a stumble: hence the trad., إِيَّاكَ وَطَيْرَاتِ الشَّبَابِ (assumed tropical:) Beware thou of the slips and stumbles of youth. (TA.)
  • طِيْرَةٌ Open entry
    and طِيَرَةٌ and طِوَرَةٌ; see طَايأِرٌ; the second, in four places.
  • طَيْرُورَةٌ Open entry
    : see طَيْرَةٌ, in two places.

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