ع ت ر

Arabic

Root

ع ت ر • (ʕ-t-r)

1. related to being cut and consequentially exposed

Derived terms

• Form I: عَتَرَ (ʕatara, “to sacrifice”)
  • Verbal noun: عَتْر (ʕatr)
  • Active participle: عَاتِر (ʕātir)
  • Passive participle: مَعْتُور (maʕtūr)

• عِتْر (ʕitr, “original state, natural disposition; penis; Glossonema varians; idol offered to”)
• عِتْرَة (ʕitra, “stem, stock”)
• عَتِيرَة (ʕatīra, “goat or sheep destined for sacrifice”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ع ت ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 93
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ع ت ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 103
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ع ت ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1946
• Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 114 and 282