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خَاطِرٌ خاطر [part. n. of 1, q. v.:] (tropical:) Walking with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side; (K;) as also ↓ خَطِرٌ , (K, TA,) or ↓ خَطْرٌ . (So in the CK and in a MS. copy of the K.) -A2- (tropical:) An opinion, or an idea, or object of thought, bestirring itself in the mind; (A and Kull p. 179;) i. q. هَاجِسُ, (M, K,) i. e. a thing coming at random into the mind: (S in art. هجس:) or a cogitation which bestirs itself, or occurs, (يَخْطُرُ,) in the mind, with a view to the end, issue, or result, of a thing: (Msb:) pl. خَوَاطِرُ: (A, K:) [and ↓ خَطْرَةٌ signifies the same; for] خَطَرَاتٌ [which is its pl.] is syn. with خَوَاطِرُ; (A;) [whence the phrase,] خَطَرَاتُ الشَّيَاطِينِ (assumed tropical:) The vain suggestions of the devils. (S and TA in art. همز, &c.) [See also خَطَرٌ, last sentence] ― -b2- Hence it is applied to (assumed tropical:) The mind itself. (Kull p. 179.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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