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8 اِثَّأَرَ ذ originally اِثْتَأَرَ He obtained his bloodrevenge, or retaliation; syn. أَدْرَك ثَأْرَهُ; (T, S, M, K;) مِنْهُ from him; (T, S;) as also ↓ أَثْأَرَ : (M, K:) and اِثَّأَرَ مِنْهُ he slew the slayer of his relation. (T.) Lebeed says, “ وَالنِّيبُ إِِنْ تَعْرُ مِنِّى رِمَّةً خَلَقًا *
بَعْدَ المَمَاتِ فَإِِنِّى كُنْتُ أَثَّئِرُ *
” [And the old she-camels, if they seek to obtain benefit from a worn rotten bone of me after death, I used to retaliate upon them by anticipation]: (T, S:) i. e., I used to slaughter [some of] them for guests, and so I have retaliated upon them during my life for their nibbling my rotten bones after my death: for when camels do not find herbage of the kind called حَمْض, they eat the bones of dead men and of camels instead thereof. (T.) ― -b2- See also 1.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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