فتر

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Form 1فَتَرَ7 senses · 2 main

muḍāriʿـُيَفْعُلُ·ـِيَفْعِلُmaṣdarفُتُورٌ فَتْرَةٌ

Core sense — it remitted, or became still, after violence; he flagged in his workgenerated

1.1

Muḍāriʿ فَتُرَ and فَتِرَ; maṣdar فُتُورٌ and فُتَارٌ.

The second maṣdar is so given in the M and in some copies of the K, and in the TA it is said to be like غُرَابٌ, but in the CK and one manuscript copy of the K it is written فِتَار.

It (a thing) remitted, or became still, after violence; and became gentle after violence.

1.1.1figurative · مجازhe flagged, or became remiss, or languid, in his work—فَتَرَ عَنْ عَمَلِهِ

He slackened in it after vigour; he became gentle in it after violence.

1.1.2figurative · مجازthe heat remitted after violence; it became gentle—فَتَرَ الحَرُّ

The heat remitted, abated, or flagged; it became languid and faint.

The verb is used in the same way of other things, for instance of a price, and of a man, meaning he became languid and faint, or lax in the joints; [as also تفتّر, which occurs in the K in the article ختر].

the cold abated, or remitted, or became allayed—فَتَرَ البَرْدُ

1.1.3the water ceased to be hot—فَتَرَ المَآءُ

[The water abated in heat so as to become tepid, or lukewarm, or between hot and cold; see فَاتِرٌ.]

1.1.4figurative · مجاز — inferredhis body became languid, or lax in the joints, and weak—فَتَرَ جِسْمُهُ

1.1.5figurative · مجاز — inferredthe look of the eye, or eyes, became languishing, or languid—فَتَرَ الطَّرْفُ

Explained by اِنْكَسَرَ نَظَرُهُ.

[See طَرْفٌ فَاتِرٌ below; and see also Form 4.]

1.2he measured it by the فِتْر—فَتَرَهُ

Like شَبَرَهُ, "he measured it by the شِبْر".

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 1

21:20

يُسَبِّحُونَ ٱلَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ لَا يَفْتُرُونَ

They celebrate His praises night and day, nor do they ever flag or intermit.

Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.

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, aor. فَتُرَ and فَتِرَ , inf. n. فُتُورٌ and فُتَارٌ , [the latter is thus accord. to the M, and some copies of the K, and in the TA is said to be like غُرَابٌ , but in the CK and one MS. copy of the K I find it written فِتَار ,] It (a thing, M, TA) remitted, or became allayed, or still, after vehemence; and became gentle after violence. (M, K, TA.) فَتَرَ عَنْ عَمَلِهِ , (Msb, TA,) aro. فَتُرَ , inf. n. فُتُورٌ , (Msb,) He remitted, flagged, or became remiss, or languid, in his work, or labour: (TA:) he remitted therein after vigour, or vehemence; became gentle therein after violence. (Msb.) Hence, (Msb,) فَتَرَ الحَرُّ , (S, O, Msb, TA,) aor. فَتُرَ , (S, O,) inf. n. فَتْرَةٌ (Msb) and فُتُورٌ , (S, O, Msb,) The heat remitted after vehemence; became gentle after violence: (Msb, TA:) the heat remitted, abated, or flagged; became languid and faint: and the verb is used in like manner of other things; (S;) for instance, of a price: (Fr, in TA, art. قط :) and of a man, signifying he was, or became, [languid, languid and faint, or] lax in the joints; (Ham p. 799;) [as also تفتّر , occurring in the K in art. ختر , &c.]. And فَتَرَ البَرْدُ The cold abated, or remitted; or became allayed. (TA.) And فَتَرَ المَآءُ [The water abated in heat so as to become tepid, or lukewarm, or between hot and cold; (see فَاتِرٌ ;)] the water ceased to be hot. (M, K.) فَتَرَ جِسْمُهُ , (M, K,) aor. فَتُرَ , (M,) inf. n. فُتُورٌ , (M, K,) His body became [languid; or] lax in the joints, and weak. (M, K.) And فَتَرَ الطَّرْفُ The look of the eye, or eyes, became languishing, or languid; expl. by اِنْكَسَرَ نَظَرُهُ . (IKtt, TA.) [See طَرْفٌ فَاتِرٌ , below; and see also 4.] فَتَرَهُ He measured it by the فِتْر : (M, O, K:) like شَبَرَهُ “ he measured it by the شِبْر . ” (M, O.)

Form 2فتّرهُ6 senses · 2 main

maṣdarتَفْتِيرٌ

Core sense — he made it remit, or become still, after violencegenerated

2.1

He made it (a thing) remit, or become still, after violence; and become gentle after violence.

2.1.1figurative · مجاز

He made him (a worker) flag, or become remiss, or languid.

2.1.2figurative · مجازGod made the heat remit after violence, and become gentle—فتّر ٱللّٰهُ الحَرَّ

Maṣdar as above.

He made it remit, abate, or flag; made it become languid and faint.

he made the cold remit, or become allayed—فتّر البَرْدَ

2.1.3he made the water lose its heat so as to become tepid—فتّر المَآءَ

See Form 1.

2.1.4figurative · مجاز — inferredit (beverage) heated his body and made it languid, lax in the joints, and weak—فتّر جَسَدَهُ

Or, as some say, فتّرهُ and افترهُ both mean the same, that is, it made him, or it (a man's body), become languid, or lax in the joints, and weak.

Or the second of the two means: it (disease, or intoxication) made him weak, or faint.

افتر also means, without its object being expressed, that it (beverage) made its drinker languid, or lax in the joints, and weak; or it may have this meaning.

2.2figurative · مجازthe cloud continued motionless, and prepared to discharge rain—فتّر السَّحَابُ

Maṣdar as above. This is Ibn-ʿAbbād's explanation.

Or it rained, discharged all its water, left off, and continued motionless; or it became motionless. So explained by Hammād Er-Rāwiyeh, in the following verse of Ibn-Muḳbil, describing rain, or a cloud: [Look attentively, my friend; do you 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?]

shāhid

تَأَمَّلْ خَلِيلِى هَلْ تَرَى ضَوْءَ بَارِقٍيَمَانٍ مَرَتْهُ رِيحُ نَجْدٍ فَفَتَّرَا

Qur’ānic occurrences Form 2

43:75

لَا يُفَتَّرُ عَنْهُمْ وَهُمْ فِيهِ مُبْلِسُونَ

Nowise will the (Punishment) be lightened for them, and in despair will they be there overwhelmed.

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, inf. n. تَفْتِيرٌ , He made it (a thing, M, O) to remit, or become allayed or still, after vehemence; and to become gentle after violence. (M, O, * K.) He made him (a worker) to remit, flag, or become remiss, or languid. (TA.) فتّر ٱللّٰهُ الحَرَّ , inf. n. as above, God made the heat to remit after vehemence; to become gentle after violence: (Msb, TA:) made it to remit, abate, or flag; to become languid and faint. (S.) [And فتّر البَرْدَ He made the cold to remit, or become allayed. فتّر المَآءَ He made the water to abate in heat so as to become tepid. See 1.] فتّر جَسَدَهُ It (beverage) heated his body, and made it to become languid, or lax in the joints, and weak; or, as some say, فتّرهُ and افترهُ 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: (TA:) or the latter, it (disease, M, K, and intoxication, M) rendered him weak, or faint: (M, K:) and افتر also signifies [without its objective complement's being expressed] it (beverage) rendered its drinker languid, or lax in the joints, and weak; (K;) or it may have this meaning. (O.) فتّر السَّحَابُ , inf. n. as above, The cloud continued motionless, and prepared to discharge rain: (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K:) or rained, and discharged all its water, and left off, and continued motionless: (As, TA:) or became motionless: so expl. by Hammád Er-Ráwiyeh, in the following verse of Ibn-Mukbil, describing rain, (T,) or a cloud: (TA:) 1 [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?]. (T, TA.) تَأَمَّلْ خَلِيلِى هَلْ تَرَى ضَوْءَ بَارِقٍ | يَمَانٍ مَرَتْهُ رِيحُ نَجْدٍ فَفَتَّرَا

Form 4افتر2 senses

Core sense — he made it remit after violence; his eyelids became weak and his sight languidgenerated

4.1

See Form 2, where three meanings are mentioned.

4.2figurative · مجاز — inferred

Also: his (a man's) eyelids became weak, so that his eyes, or sight, became languishing, or languid, or not sharp.

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: see 2, where three significations are mentioned. Also, His (a man's, T, O) eyelids became weak, so that his eyes, or sight, became languishing, or languid, or not sharp, ( اِنْكَسَرَ طَرْفُهُ [see طَرْفٌ فَاتِرٌ , below]). (T, O, K.)

Form 5تَفَتَّرَ1 sense

Core sense — he became languid, lax in the joints, and weakgenerated

5.1

See Form 1, latter half.

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see 1, latter half.

Form 10استفتر1 sense

Core sense — he abstained from covering, so that his seminal fluid collectedgenerated

10.1figurative · مجازhe abstained from covering, so that his seminal fluid collected—اِسْتَجَمَّ

Said of a horse; the verb here has the same meaning as this one.

In the copies of the K, and in the O, wrongly written اِسْتَجَرَّ.

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, said of a horse, i. q. اِسْتَجَمَّ [i. e. He abstained from covering, so that his seminal fluid collected]: (A, TA:) in the copies of the K, [and in the O,] erroneously, اِسْتَجَرَّ . (TA.)

Derived nouns 11

Nounفُتْرٌ1 sense

Core sense — a mat of palm-leaves on which flour is siftedgenerated

Ibn-ʿAbbād: a نَبِيَّة, that is, a thing like the سُفْرَة, made of palm-leaves, on which flour, or meal, is sifted.

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A نَبِيَّة , (O,) [i. e.] a thing like the سُفْرَة [q. v.] made of palm-leaves, upon which flour, or meal, is sifted. (Ibn-' Abbád, O, K.)

Nounفِتْرٌ1 sense

Core sense — the span between the tip of the thumb and that of the forefingergenerated

The space between the tip of the thumb and that of the forefinger when they are stretched apart in the usual way for measuring.

Plural أَفْتَارٌ.

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The space between the extremity of the thumb and that of the fore finger (S, O, Msb, K) when they are stretched out asunder (S, O, Msb, TA) in the usual manner [for measuring]: (Msb:) pl. أَفْتَارٌ . (TA.)

Nounفَتَرٌ2 senses · 1 main

Core sense — the span between the thumb and the forefingergenerated

See فَتْرَةٌ.

1.1

الفَتَرُ, explained in the K as meaning "the muscles" and also as meaning "a certain well-known measure, or quantity, of wheat", is a mistake for الفَأْرُ, which is mentioned in both of these senses in the article فأر in the TS and in the O. [See the article فأر.]

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: see فَتْرَةٌ . الفَتَرُ expl. in the K as signifyfying “ the muscles, ” and also as signifying “ a certain well-known measure, or quantity, of wheat, ” is a mistake for الفَأْرُ , mentioned in both of these senses in art. فأر in the TS [and in the O]. (TA. [See art. فأر .])

Nounفَتْرَةٌ3 senses · 2 main

Core sense — languor, weakness; an interval of time between two prophetsgenerated

1I feel in myself something like a weakness—أَجِدُ فِى نَفْسِى فَتْرَةً

Languor, or remissness; and weakness, feebleness, or faintness; a condition like a weakness or faintness.

فَتَرٌ also means weakness, feebleness, or faintness.

1.1

An interval of time between things; or between any two prophets, or between two of God's apostles, during which the apostolic function ceases; or a cessation of the mission of apostles, with the signs of their religion effaced. So in the Qur'ān 5:22.

Qur’ān 5:19 approximate — somewhere between 5:1 and 5:31 Lane cites “Kur v. 22”

Qur’ān 5:19 the verse Lane’s citation points to, and it uses this root

يَـٰٓأَهْلَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ رَسُولُنَا يُبَيِّنُ لَكُمْ عَلَىٰ فَتْرَةٍ مِّنَ ٱلرُّسُلِ أَن تَقُولُوا۟ مَا جَآءَنَا مِنۢ بَشِيرٍ وَلَا نَذِيرٍ ۖ فَقَدْ جَآءَكُم بَشِيرٌ وَنَذِيرٌ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

O People of the Book! Now hath come unto you, making (things) clear unto you, Our Messenger, after the break in (the series of) our messengers, lest ye should say: "There came unto us no bringer of glad tidings and no warner (from evil)": But now hath come unto you a bringer of glad tidings and a warner (from evil). And Allah hath power over all things.Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’ān (1934)

See also what follows.

Qur’ānic occurrences فَتْرَة

5:19

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Languor, or remissness; and weakness, feebleness, or faintness; (S, O;) an affection like a weakness, feebleness, or faintness: (T:) and فَتَرٌ also signifies weakness, feebleness, or faintness. (M, K.) One says, أَجِدُ فِى نَفْسِى فَتْرَةً I experience in myself an affection like a weakness, &c. (T.) An interval of time [between things: (S and K in art. وتر ; &c.:) or] between any two prophets, (M, K,) or between two of God's apostles, (S, O, TA,) during which there is a cessation of the apostolic function: (TA:) or a cessation of the mission of apostles, and a state of effacement of the signs of their religion: so in the Kur v. 22. (Msb.) See also what next follows.

Nounفِتَرٌّ1 sense

Core sense — a speckled fish, the torpedo, that numbs the legs of one treading on itgenerated

Also written فَتْرَةٌ.

A certain fish, speckled, and having a blackness on it, such that when a man treads on it he is affected with a languor (in some copies of the K, a tremour) in his legs, so that he is drowned, as Ibn-ʿAbbād describes it, or so that he sweats (thus in copies of the K). It is the رَعَّادَة, or torpedo, found in the Nile of Egypt.

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and فَتْرَةٌ A certain fish, (O, K,) speckled, and having upon it a blackness, (O,) such that when a man treads upon it, he is affected with a languor (in some copies of the K a tremour) in his legs, (O, K,) so that he becomes drowned, thus described by Ibn-' Abbád, (O,) or so that he sweats: (thus in copies of the K:) it is the رَعَّادَة [or torpedo], found in the Nile of Egypt. (TA.)

Nounفُتَارٌ1 sense

Core sense — a languor which is the beginning of intoxicationgenerated

A languor which is the beginning of intoxication.

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[A languor which is the] beginning of intoxication. (AHn, M, K.)

Nounالفُتُورُ1 sense

Core sense — the soft, rising parts of the frogs of horses' hoofsgenerated

Ibn-ʿAbbād: the soft and rising parts of the frogs of horses' hoofs.

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The soft and rising parts of the frogs of horses' hoofs. (Ibn-' Abbád, O.)

Nounمَآءٌ فَاتِرٌ3 senses · 1 main

Core sense — lukewarm water; a languishing eye; a weak walkinggenerated

Also فَاتُورٌ: water between hot and cold; lukewarm; tepid; water that has ceased to be hot.

1.1figurative · مجاز — inferredan eye, or eyes, in which is a weakness that is thought beautiful—طَرْفٌ فَاتِرٌ

That is, languishing; in which there is languidness; not having a sharp look, or not sharp.

[See Form 4.]

1.2a weak walking—مَشْىٌ فَاتِرٌ

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, (T, M, O, K,) and فَاتُورٌ , (M, K,) Water between hot and cold; lukewarm; tepid; (T, O;) water ceasing to be hot. (M, K.) طَرْفٌ فَاتِرٌ An eye, or eyes, in which is a weakness that is deemed beautiful; (B, TA;) [i. e., languishing,] in which is languish, or languidness; (T;) not having a sharp look: (T, M, K;) or not sharp. (S, O.) [See 4.] مَشْىٌ فَاتِرٌ A weak walking. (O.)

Nounفَاتُورٌ1 sense

Core sense — lukewarm water, between hot and coldgenerated

See the paragraph just before this.

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: see the next preceding paragraph.

Nounتَفْتَرٌ1 sense

Core sense — a register, or account-bookgenerated

The same as دَفْتَرٌ, in the dialect of the Benū Asad; mentioned in this article by Ṣgh in the O.

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i. q. دَفْتَرٌ , (O, K,) in the dial. of the BenooAsad: (Fr, O, TA:) mentioned in this art. by Sgh [in the O]. (TA.)

Nounمُقْتِرٌ1 sense

Core sense — beverage which makes its drinker languid and weakgenerated

Or مُفَتِّرٌ.

Beverage which makes its drinker languid; or which heats the body and produces in it a languor, or laxity of the joints, and weakness.

Such beverage is forbidden.

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, (so accord. to the O,) or مُفَتِّرٌ , (so in the L,) Beverage which renders languid the drinker; (O, L, TA;) or which heats the body, and occasions in it a languor, or laxity of the joints, and weakness: such beverage is prohibited. (L, TA.)