This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
بِيَطْرٌ بيطر : see بَيْطَارٌ. ― -b2- [Hence,] A tailor. (Sh, S, * K.) A poet says, (calling a tailor a بيطر, like as one calls a skilful man an إِِسْكَاف, Sh, TA,) “ شَقَّ البِيَطْرِ مِدْرَعَ الهُمَامِ
” [Like as the tailor cuts lengthwise, or slits, the woollen tunic of the valiant chief]. (Sh, S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
