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دَثْرٌ دثار دثر (tropical:) Much property or wealth; or many camels or the like: (T, S, M, K:) or much, or many, of any thing or things: (M:) [the sing. and dual and pl. are alike; as in the case of its syn. دِبْرٌ or دَبْرٌ:] you say, [using it as an epithet,] مَالٌ دَبْرٌ, (T, S, K,) and مَالَانِ دَثْرٌ, and أَمْوَالِ دَثْرٌ: (S, K:) [but sometimes دُثُورٌ is used as its pl.; for] you say أَهْلُ دَثْرٍ and أَهْلُ دُثُورٍ: (A 'Obeyd, T:) you also say ↓ مَالٌ دِثْرٌ : (T:) and the expression ↓ عَسْكَرٌ دَثَرٌ , meaning a numerous army, occurs thus written: (S:) an instance is found in a verse of Imra-el-Keys, where it is thus for the sake of the metre. (TA.) ― -b2- Also Abundance of herbage, and the like; or abundant herbage, and the like. (TA.) ― -b3- See also دَاثِرٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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