muḥtār

confused, uncertain, baffled

مُحْتار

Word

Adjective · pattern مُفْعال

Root

ح ت ر

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 1 entry
  • حِتَارٌ circuit, rim, or surrounding edge
    The circuit, rim, or surrounding edge, of a thing; what surrounds [the whole of] a thing: (S, K:) pl. حُتُرٌ. (S.) ― -b2- The hoop of a sieve [and the like]. (TA.) ― -b3- The anus; syn. حَلْقَةُ الدُّبُرِ; (K;) or such is the meaning حِتَارُ الدُّبُرِ, and شَرَجُهُ: (Mgh in art. شرج:) and the extremities of its skin; i. e. the place where the external skin and the extremities of the خَوْرَان [or rectum] meet: or the edges of the دُبُر [or anus]: (TA:) or the part between the anus and the anterior pudendum: or the line between the two testicles. (K.) ― -b4- حِتَارُ الأُذُنِ The circuit of the edges of the gristles of the ear. (TA.) ― -b5- حِتَارُ العَيْنِ The edges of the eyelids, which meet when the eye is closed: (TA:) or the زِيق of the eyelid, (K accord. to some copies, [and this is the right reading, meaning its edge, زيق being here used tropically, its proper signification being the “ part ” of a shirt “ that surrounds the neck, ”] as is said in the TA,) internally: in most copies of the K رَيْقُ الجَفْنِ, [in the CK رِيقُ الجُفْنِ,] with راء [not زاى]. (TA.) ― -b6- حِتَارُ الظُّفُرِ The part of the flesh which is around the nail. (TA.)

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