غثر
1 غَثَرَتِ الأَرْضُ بِالنَّبَاتِ ذ i. q. مَأَدَت (thus in the JK [app. meaning The land became flourishing and fresh with herbage]): or مَادَت (thus in the O and K [i. e. without '; but the former, I think, is evidently the right: the meaning which I have given may be from غَثَرٌ, q. v., and therefore tropical: and it may be inferred from what here follows that the verb is correctly, or originally, غَثْرَت, fem. of ↓ غَثْرَى ]). The epithet applied to such land is ↓ مُغَثْرِيَةٌ . (JK, O, K.) 4 اغثر ذ It (the [species of tree, or shrub, called] رِمْث [&c.]) exuded what is termed مُغْثُور [q. v.]; (K;) as also اغفر. (TA.) ― -b2- See also عَيَّرَ, last sentence. 11 اغثارّ ذ It (a garment, or piece of cloth,) had much غَثَر i. e. nap, or villous substance, (K, TA,) and wool. (TA.) Q. Q. 1 غَثْرَى ذ : see the first paragraph. Q. Q. 2 تَمَغْثَرَ ذ He gathered مُغْثُور [q. v.]. (K.) You say, خَرَجَ النَّاسُ يَتَمَغْثَرُونَ, like يَتَمَغْفَرُونَ, The people went forth to gather مَغَاثِير [pl. of مُغْثُورٌ]. (TA.) غَثَرٌ ذ The nap, or villous substance, of a garment, or piece of cloth; (K, TA;) and the wool thereof. (TA.) غَثْرَةٌ ذ Abundance: (TA:) [and particularly] abundance of herbage, and of the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life; ampleness [thereof] (K, TA.) ― -b2- And A portion of property. (TA.) غُثْرَةٌ ذ A dust-colour inclining to خُضْرَة [which here app. means a dingy ash-colour]: (S, TA:) or, as some say, [simply] dust-colour: (TA:) or it is like duskiness (غُبْشَةٌ) mixed with redness. (K, TA.) غَثَرَةٌ ذ : see أَغْثَرُ, last sentence. غَثَارِ ذ , or غَثَارُ, accord. to the CK غُثَارٌ: see أَغْثَرُ. الغَوْثَرُ ذ and الغَثَوْثَرُ: see أَغْثَرُ, former half. 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. أَغْثَرُ ذ , (S,) and [the fem.] غَثْرَآءُ, (K,) Dustcoloured: (K, TA:) or of a dingy, or dusky, colour: (TA:) or of a dingy, or dusky, colour: (TA:) or [of the colour termed غُثْرَة, which is] nearly the same as dust-coloured. (S, K, TA.) 'Omárah says, “ حَتَّى ا@كْتَسَيْتُ مِنَ المَشِيبِ عِمَامَةًغَثْرَآءَ أَغْفِرُ لَوْنَهَا بِخِضَابِ
” [Until I attired myself with a dusky turban of hoariness, the colour of which I concealed with hair-dye]. (TA.) ― -b2- أَغْثَرُ is applied as an epithet to a ram That is not red [or brown] nor black ner white; (IAar, TA;) meaning of a dusky, or dingy, colour. (TA.) And it is so applied to a wolf. (IAar, TA.) And الأَغْثَرُ signifies The wolf; (TA;) as also الأَغْبَرُ. (TA in art. غبر.) ― -b3- And [in like manner] الغَثْرَآءُ signifies The hyena, or female hyena; (K, TA;) because of its colour: (TA;) as also ↓ غَثَارِ , (O, K, TA,) like قَطَامِ, (O, TA,) determinate; (K, TA;) [accord. to the CK غُثَارٌ, which is wrong;] and accord. to IAar ↓ غَثَارُ , imperfectly declinable. (TA.) ― -b4- And الأَغْثَرُ signifies also The lion; and so ↓ الغَثَوْثَرُ : (K:) or the latter, as also ↓ الغَوْثَرُ , the lion that is in a confused, or perplexed, case. (O.) ― -b5- And A certain bird, (K, TA,) having confused, or disordered, plumage, (TA,) long in the neck, (K, TA,) in the colour of which is غُثْرَة [q. v.], and which is of the aquatic kind. (TA.) ― -b6- أَكَلَتْهُمُ الغَثْرَآءُ [which may be rendered The hyena, or female hyena, devoured them] means (assumed tropical:) they perished. (Z, TA.) ― -b7- غَثْرَآءُ applied to [garments of the kind called] أَكْسِيَة [pl. of كِسَآءٌ] (K, TA) and قَطَائِف [pl. of قَطِيفَةٌ] and the like, and to an عَبَآءَة, (TA,) signifies Having much wool (L, K, TA) and nap, or villous substance. (L.) ― -b8- الأَغْثَرُ also signifies The [green substance that overspreads stale water, called] طُحْلُب. (S, TA.) ― -b9- Also (assumed tropical:) The ignorant man: and the stupid man: likened to the hyena, or female hyena, which is one of the most stupid of beasts, and of which one of the appellations is الغَثْرَآءُ. (IDrd, TA.) ― -b10- And الغَثْرَآءُ and الغُثْرُ, (S, K, TA,) which latter is the pl. of الأَغْثَرُ, (S, TA,) (assumed tropical:) The low, base, vile, ignoble, mean, or sordid, or the refuse, or rabble, of mankind; as also ↓ الغَثْرَةُ , (S, K, TA,) said to be originally ↓ الغَيْثَرَةُ , (S, TA,) which signifies the same: (S, K, TA:) and غَثْرَآءُ is also expl. as meaning a mixed assemblage of people (K, TA) of the low, base, vile, ignoble, mean, or sordid, or of the refuse, or rabble, of mankind; (TA;) and so ↓ غَيْثَرَةٌ : (AZ, TA:) or a mixed assemblage of people of various tribes: or the unknown common people: or the commonalty, or generality, of men. (TA.) مِغْثَرٌ ذ : see what next follows. مِغْثَارٌ ذ : see what next follows. مُغْثُورٌ ذ (S, M) and ↓ مِغْثَرٌ (Yaakoob, S, K) and ↓ مِغْثَارٌ (TA) [A sort of manna;] a thing [or substance] which is exuded by the [species of tree, or shrub, called] رِمْث, (S, K,) and by the عُرْفُط, (S,) and the ثُمَام, and the عُشَر, (K,) resembling gum, and sweet, (S,) like honey: (S, K:) it is eaten; (TA;) and sometimes it flows upon the ground, like دِبْس: and it has an unpleasant smell: مُغْثُورٌ is a dial. var. of مُغْفُورٌ [q. v.]: (S, TA:) the pl. is مَغَاثِيرُ. (K.) أَرْضٌ مُغَثْرِيَةٌ ذ : see 1. ― -b2- وَجَدَ المَآءَ مُغَثْرِيًا عَلَيْهِ means He found the water to be thronged: (K, TA:) or, accord. to Sgh, (TA,) you say, وَجَدْتُ المَآءَ مُغَثْرِيًا بِالوِرْدِ I found the water to be thronged by the coming thereto. (O, TA.)
