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غَيْثَرَةٌ ذ A threatening. (K.) ― -b2- And Fight, or conflict; and commotion, or tumult: so in the saying, تَرَكْتُ القَوْمَ فِى غَيْثَرَةٍ and غَيْثَمَةٍ [I left the people, or party, in fight, &c.]: (As, TA:) or, accord to IAar, it means the treading, or trampling, of the people, or party, one upon another, (مُدَاوَسَةُ القَوْمِ بَعْضِهِمْ بَعْضًا,) in fight, or conflict: you say, بَيْنَ القَوْمِ غَيْثَرَةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ [Among the people, or party, is a vehement treading, &c.]. (S, TA.) -A2- See also أَغْثَرُ, last sentence, in two places.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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