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5 تدثّر دثر تدثر ٱدثر , (T, S,) and تدثّر بِدِثَارٍ, (Msb, TA,) and اِدَثَّرَّ, inf. n. اِدَثُّرٌّ, (T,) He wrapped himself with a دثار: (T, S, Msb, TA:) and تدثّر بِالثَّوْبِ he enveloped himself entirely with the garment. (M, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] هُوَ يَتَدَثَّرُ بِالمَالِ (tropical:) He is abundant in wealth. (A, TA.) -A2- تدثّر النَّاقَةَ (tropical:) He (a stallion) mounted, or leaped, the she-camel. (S, A, K.) ― -b2- And تدثّر فَرَسَهُ (tropical:) He (a man) leaped upon, and rode, his horse: (T, S, M, A, L, B: in the K, for فَرَسَهُ, in some copies, is erroneously put قَرِينَهُ; and in others, قِرْنَهُ, which is also wrong: TA:) or rode, and wheeled about upon the back of, his horse: (M:) or mounted his horse from behind. (TA.) ― -b3- Ibn-Mukbil uses the verb metaphorically in describing rain; saying, “ أَصَاخَتْ لَهُ فُدْرُ اليَمَامَةِ بَعْدَمَا
تَدَثَّرَ هَا مِنْ وَبْلِهِ مَا تَدَثَّرَا
” (tropical:) [The large mountain-goats of El-Yemámeh listened to it, after there had fallen upon it, of its shower of big drops, what fell]. (M, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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