قنطر
Q. 1 قَنْطَرَ الشّىْءِ
i. q. عَقَدَهُ وَأَحْكَمَهُ [He tied, or knit, the thing; or, agreeably with modern usage, he arched, or vaulted, it; and made it firm, or strong]. (
Zj.) Hence what is called a قَنْطَرَة is thus called because of its being firmly, or strongly, knit together, or arched, or vaulted, لِإِحْكَامِ عَقْدِهَا. (
MF.) [It seems to signify He compacted the thing.
b2: Also, He collected the thing together into one aggregate; he aggregated it. See the
pass. part. n., below.]
A2: قَنْطَرَ He (a man,
TA) possessed property by the قِنْطَار: (
K:) or became possessed of a قنطار of property: (
TA:) or possessed large property, as though it were weighed by the قنطار. (
ISd,
TA.) 2 تَقَنْطَرَ بِهِ فَرَسُهُ, for تَقَطَّرَ به: see قَطَّرَهُ.
قَنْطَرَةٌ [
accord. to the
Msb, of the measure فَنْعَلَةٌ, belonging to art. قطر, the ن being augmentative; and the same is perhaps meant to be indicated by the place in which it is mentioned in the
S and some other lexicons; but
accord. to the
K, the ن is a radical letter; A bridge;] what is built over water, for crossing or passing over (
Mgh,
Msb) upon it; (
Msb;) an أَزَج [or oblong arched or vaulted structure], built with backed bricks or with stones, over water, upon which to cross or pass over: (
Az,
TA:) or
i. q. جِسْرٌ: (
S,
K:) or this latter is a more common term; (
Mgh, *
Msb;) for it signifies that which is built and that which is not built: (
Msb:) a lofty structure: (
K:) [
pl. قَنَاطِرُ.] See 1.
قِنْطَارٌ [
accord. to the
Msb, of the measure فِنْعَالٌ, belonging to art. قطر, the ن being augmentative; and the same is perhaps meant to be indicated by the place in which it is mentioned in the
S and some other lexicons; but
accord. to the
K, the ن is a radical letter;] A certain مِعْيَار [or standard of weight or measure]: (
S,
TA:) or,
accord. to some, a quantity of no determinate weight: (
Msb:) or a large unknown quantity or aggregate, of property: (
TA:) or much property heaped up: (
Msb:) or four thousand deenárs: (
Th,
Msb:) this is what most of the Arabs hold to be the truth: (
Th:) or four thousand dirhems: (
Th:) or one thousand two hundred ookeeyehs: (A 'Obeyd,
S,
K:) so
accord. to Mo'ádh Ibn-Jebel: (
S:) or [which is the same] a hundred ritls: (
Msb:) [this is its weight in the present day; i. e., a hundredweight, or a hundred pounds:] or a hundred ritls of gold or of silver: (Es-Suddee,
K:) or a hundred and twenty ritls: (
S,
L:) or a thousand ookeeyehs of gold: or of silver: (
Th:) or twelve thousand ookeeyehs,
accord. to Aboo-Hureyreh, on the authority of the Prophet: (
TA:) or a hundred ookeeyehs of gold: or of silver: (
Th:) or a hundred mithkáls; (I 'Ab,
Msb,
TA;) the mith-kál being twenty keeráts: (I 'Ab,
TA:) or forty ookeeyehs of gold: (
K:) or one thousand two hundred deenárs: (
K:) or one thousand one hundred deenárs: (
L:) or seventy thousand deenárs: (
K:) or, in the language of Barbar, a thousand mithkáls of gold or of silver: (
TA:) or eighty thousand dirhems: (I 'Ab,
K:) or a hundred dirhems: (
Msb:) or a hundred menns: (
Msb:) or a quantity of gold, (
S,
K,) or of silver, (
K,) sufficient to fill a bull's hide: (
S,
K:) so in the Syriac language,
accord. to Es-Suddee: (
TA:) and there are other definitions of the word: (
S:)
pl. قَنَاطِيرُ. (
S.) مُقَنْطَرٌ Collected together into one aggregate; aggregated; made up; or completed;
syn. مُكَمَّلٌ. (
K.) You say قَنَاطِيرُ مُقَنْطَرَةٌ, (
S,) meaning, Much riches collected together: (
Jel. in iii. 12:) the latter word is a
corroborative. (
Bd. ibid.)
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