ارث

اـِرَاتٌ ارات آر آرات Fire; (T, M, L, K;) as also ↓ اـِرَاثَةٌ and ↓ أَرِيثٌ: (TA:) or (so accord. to the M and L, but in the K “and”) tinder, and the like, prepared for fire; (M, L, K;) [as also ↓ اـِرَاثَةٌ and ↓ أُرْثَةٌ; or these two words signify a means of kindling or inflaming; as will be seen from what follows:] or a lump of the dung of a horse or the like, or a similar thing, with which one kindles a fire; as also ↓ أُرْثَةٌ: (A:) or this last signifies dung of camels or horses or the like, (S, K,) or wood, or a stick, (T,) that is prepared, or put in readiness, by the ashes, (S, K,) or buried in them, (T,) for the time when it may be wanted (T, S, K) for fuel. (T.) It is said in a prov., mentioned in the collection of Meyd, العَدَاوَةِ ↓ النَّمِيمَةُ [ Calumny, or slander, is a means of kindling, or inflaming, enmity ]. (TA: but in Freytag's Arab. Prov., ii. 773, in the place of اراثة, we find ↓ أُرْثَة.)