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6 تَآيَيْتُهُ تآييته تآييتة , (T, S, M, * K,) and ↓ تَأَيَّيْتُهُ , (S, K,) I directed my course, or aim, to, or towards, (T, S, M, * K,) his آيَة, (S, M,) i. e., (M,) his شَخْص [or body, or corporeal form or figure or substance, seen from a distance; or person]. (T, M, K.) The following is an ex., as some relate it, of the former verb; and as others relate it, of the latter: “ اَلْحُصْنُ أَوْلَى لَوْ تَآيُيْتِهِ
مِنْ حَثْيِكِ التُّرْبَ عَلَى الرَّاكِبِ
” [Modest behaviour were more proper, if thou directedst thy course towards his person, than thy throwing dust upon the rider]: (S, TA: [in two copies of the former of which, for أَوْلَى, I find أَدْنَى:]) said by a woman to her daughter, on the latter's relating, in a couplet, that a rider, passing along, had seen her, and she had thrown dust in his face, purposely. (IB.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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