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1 أَطَرَهُ ذ , aor. اَطِرَ (S, Msb, K) and اَطُرَ , (K,) inf. n. أَطْرٌ; (S, Msb, K;) and ↓أطّرهُ inf. n. تَأْطِيرٌ; (K;) He bent it, or curved it; (S, Msb, K, &c.;) namely, a bow, (S, A,) and a twig, or the like: (A:) he laid hold upon one of its two extremities, and curved it: he bent it, or curved it; namely, anything; عَلَى شَّىْءٍ upon a thing: and the latter verb, [or both,] he bent it into the form of a hoop, bringing its two extremities together. (TA.) ― -b2- It is said of Adam, ا@للّٰهُ ↓كَانَ طُوَالًا فَأَطَّرَهُ He was tall, and God bent him, and diminished his height. (TA.) ― -b3- And one says, أَخَذَ عَلَى يَدَىِ الظَّالِمِ وَأَطَرَهُ عَلَى الحَقِّ (tropical:) [He laid hold upon the two hands, or arms, of the wrongdoer, or prevented, restrained, or withheld, him from doing that which he desired,] and bent him to [conformity with] what was right. (AA, from a trad.) And أَطَرْتَ فُلَانًا عَلَى مَوَدَّتِكَ (tropical:) [Thou hast bent such a one to love thee]. (A.) ― -b4- أَطَرَ السَّهْمَ (S, K,) aor. اَطِرَ and اَطُرَ , (K,) inf. n. as above, (S, K,) He wound an أُطْرَة upon the arrow. (S, K.) ― -b5- أَطَرَ البَيْتَ, (TK,) inf. n. as above, (K,) He made an إِِطَار, which is a thing resembling a zone or belt, to the tent or house. (K, TK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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