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4 اقترت ذ She (a woman) fumigated herself with aloes-wood. (S, K.) ― -b2- اقتر النَّارَ He made the fire to smoke. (TA.) -A2- اقتر على عِيَالِهِ: and اقتر اللّٰه رِزْقَهُ: see 1. ― -b2- Also اقتر He was, or became, poor, needy, or indigent: (S, K:) or his property became small, though some of it yet remained to him. (TA.) A poet says, “ لَكُمْ قِبْصُهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَثْرَى وَأَقْتَرَا
” meaning أَتْرَى وَأَقْتَرَ مِنْ بَيْنِ مَنْ [Ye have its multitude of people, of those who have become wealthy and of those who have become poor]. (S.) [Cited voce ثَرَا. See another ex. in a verse cited in art. عى, conj. 4.] -A3- See also 8.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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