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أَثْرٌ ذ , (AZ, T, S, A, L, K, &c.,) said by Yaakoob to be the only form known to As, (S,) and ↓ أَثَرٌ , which is a form used by poetic licence, (M, L,) and ↓ أثْرَةٌ , (M, L, K,) and ↓ أُثُرٌ , (M,) and ↓ أُثُرٌ , which is in like manner a sing., not a pl., (T, L,) and ↓ أثْرَةٌ , (El-Leblee,) and ↓ أَثِيرْ , (K,) The diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain, of a sword; syn. فِرِنْدٌ; (As, T, S, M, A, L, K;) and تَسَلْسُلٌ; and دِيبَاجَةُ; (AZ, T;) and its lustre, or glitter: (M, L:) pl. [of the first] أُثُرْ: (T, M, L, K:) the pl. of أُثْرَةٌis أُثَرٌ. (El-Leblee.) Khufáf Ibn-Nudbeh Es-Sulamee says, [describing swords,] “ جَلَاهَا الصَّيْقَلُونَ فَإَِخْلَصُوهَا
خِفَافاً كُلُّهَا يَتْقِى بِأَثْرِ
” [The furbishers polished them, and freed them from impurities, making them light: each of them preserving itself from the evil eye by means of its lustre]: i. e., each of them opposes to thee its فِرِنْد: (S, L:) يَتْقِىis a contraction of يَتَّقِى; and the meaning is, when a person looks at them, their bright rays meet his eye, so that he cannot continue to look at them. (L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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