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مَأثُرَةٌ ذ (T, S, M, K, &c.) and مَأْثَرَةٌ(S, M, K) and ↓ أُثْرَةٌ (M, K) A generous quality or action; (AZ, S;) so called because related, or handed down, by generation from generation: (S:) or a generous quality that is inherited by generation from generation: (M, K:) a generous quality, or action, related, or handed down by tradition from one's ancestors: (A:) a cause of glorying: (AZ:) and precedence in أُثْرَةٌ[or grounds of pretension to respect, &c.]: pl. of the first and second, حَسَب. (AZ, T.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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