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أَتْوٌ ذ an inf. n. of 1, q. v. -A2- A way, course, mode, or manner. (M, K.) You say, of speech, or language, (M,) and of a speaker, or reciter of a خُطْبَة, (IAar, M,) مَا زَالَ عَلَى أَتْو وَاحد It, and he, ceased not to follow one [uniform] way, &c. (M.) -A3- An impulsion; a propulsion; particularly an act of shooting an arrow from a bow: so in a trad., where it is said, كُنَّا نَرْمِى الأَتْوَيْنِ We used to shoot one shooting and two shootings; meaning, of arrows from bows, after the prayer of sunset. (TA.) -A4- Death: or [so in the T, but in the K “and,”] a trial; or an affliction. (T, K.) You say, أَتَى عَلَى فُلَانٍ أَتْوٌ Death came upon such a one: or a trial; or an affliction. (ISh, T.) And إِِنْ أَتَى عَلَّى أَتْوٌ فَغُلامِى حُرٌّ If I die, [or if death befall me,] my slave shall be free. (T.) ― -b2- A vehement sickness or disease: (T, K:) or the fracture of an arm, or of a leg. (T.) -A5- A gift. (S, K.) ― -b2- Butter; (S;) as also ↓ أَتَآءٌ , (A,) or ↓ إِِتَآءٌ . (TA: [in which it is said to be like كِتَابٌ; but this I think a mistake: see أَتَآءٌ below.]) You say, when a skin of milk is agitated, and its butter comes, قَدْ جَآءَ أَتْوُهُ [Its butter has come]. (S, TA.) And you say, ↓ لَبَنٌ ذُو اتآءٍ Milk having butter. (A, TA.) -A6- A great body or corporeal form or person (شَخْصٌ عَظِيمٌ). (AZ, Sgh, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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