فــتر
1 فَـ
ـتَرَ,
aor. ـُ and فَـ
ـتِرَ,
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.)
b2: فَـ
ـتَرَ عَنْ عَمَلِهِ, (
Msb,
TA,) aro.
فَـ
ـتُرَ,
inf. n. فُتُورٌ, (
Msb,) (
tropical:) 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.)
b3: Hence, (
Msb,) فَـ
ـتَرَ الحَرُّ, (
S,
O,
Msb,
TA,)
aor. ـُ (
S,
O,)
inf. n. فَـ
ـتْرَــةٌ (
Msb) and فُتُورٌ, (
S,
O,
Msb,) (
tropical:) 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 ↓ تفـ
ـتّر, occurring in the
K in art. خـ
ـتر, &c.]. And فَـ
ـتَرَ البَرْدُ (
tropical:) The cold abated, or remitted; or became allayed. (
TA.)
b4: and فَـ
ـتَرَ المَآءُ [The water abated in heat so as to become tepid, or lukewarm, or between hot and cold; (see فَا
تِرٌ;)] the water ceased to be hot. (
M,
K.)
b5: فَـ
ـتَرَ جِسْمُهُ, (
M,
K,)
aor. ـُ (
M,)
inf. n. فُتُورٌ, (
M,
K,) (assumed
tropical:) His body became [languid; or] lax in the joints, and weak. (
M,
K.)
b6: And فَـ
ـتَرَ الطَّرْفُ (assumed
tropical:) The look of the eye, or eyes, became languishing, or languid;
expl. by اِنْكَسَرَ نَظَرُهُ. (
IKtt,
TA.) [See طَرْفٌ فَا
تِرٌ, below; and see also 4.]
A2: فَـ
ـتَرَــهُ He measured it by the فِـ
ـتْر: (
M,
O,
K:) like شَبَرَهُ
“ he measured it by the شِبْر. ” (
M, O.) 2 فـ
ـتّرهُ,
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.)
b2: (
tropical:) He made him (a worker) to remit, flag, or become remiss, or languid. (
TA.)
b3: فـ
ـتّر اللّٰهُ الحَرَّ,
inf. n. as above, (
tropical:) 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 فـ
ـتّر البَرْدَ (
tropical:) He made the cold to remit, or become allayed.
b4: فـ
ـتّر المَآءَ He made the water to abate in heat so as to become tepid. See 1.]
b5: فـ
ـتّر جَسَدَهُ (assumed
tropical:) It (beverage) heated his body, and made it to become languid, or lax in the joints, and weak; or, as some say, فـ
ـتّرهُ and ↓ افـ
ـترهُ 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 افـ
ـتر 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.)
A2: فـ
ـتّر السَّحَابُ,
inf. n. as above, (
tropical:) 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:) تَأَمَّلْ خَلِيلِى هَلْ
تَرَــى ضَوْءَ بَارِقٍ
يَمَانٍ مَرَتْهُ رِيحُ نَجْدٍ فَفَـ
ـتَّرَــا [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.) 4 افـ
ـتر: see 2, where three significations are mentioned.
A2: Also, (assumed
tropical:) 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 فَا
تِرٌ, below]). (
T,
O,
K.) 5 تَفَـ
ـتَّرَ see 1, latter half.
10 استفـ
ـتر, said of a horse,
i. q. اِسْتَجَمَّ (
tropical:) [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.) فُـ
ـتْرٌ 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.) فِـ
ـتْرٌ 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.) فَـ
ـتَرٌ: see فَـ
ـتْرَــةٌ.
b2: الفَـ
ـتَرُ 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.]) فَـ
ـتْرَــةٌ Languor, or remissness; and weakness, feebleness, or faintness; (
S, O;) an affection like a weakness, feebleness, or faintness: (
T:) and ↓ فَـ
ـتَرٌ also signifies weakness, feebleness, or faintness. (
M,
K.) One says, أَجِدُ فِى نَفْسِى فَـ
ـتْرَــةً I experience in myself an affection like a weakness, &c. (
T.)
b2: An interval of time [between things: (
S and
K in art. و
تر; &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.)
A2: See also what next follows.
فِـ
ـتَرٌّ and ↓ فَـ
ـتْرَــةٌ 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.) فُتَارٌ [A languor which is the] beginning of intoxication. (
AHn,
M,
K.) الفُتُورُ The soft and rising parts of the frogs of horses' hoofs. (Ibn-' Abbád, O.) مَآءٌ فَا
تِرٌ, (
T,
M,
O,
K,) and ↓ فَاتُورٌ, (
M,
K,) Water between hot and cold; lukewarm; tepid; (
T, O;) water ceasing to be hot. (
M,
K.)
b2: طَرْفٌ فَا
تِرٌ (assumed
tropical:) 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.]
b3: مَشْىٌ فَا
تِرٌ A weak walking. (
O.) فَاتُورٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.
تَفْـ
ـتَرٌ i. q. دَفْـ
ـتَرٌ, (
O,
K,) in the
dial. of the BenooAsad: (
Fr,
O,
TA:) mentioned in this art. by
Sgh [in the O]. (
TA.) مُقْـ
ـتِرٌ, (so
accord. to the
O,) or مُفَـ
ـتِّرٌ, (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.)
