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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 عِمَامَةً
غَثْرَآءَ 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.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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