عطس

عُطَاسٌ ذ : see عَطْسَةٌ. ― -b2- العُطَاسُ (tropical:) The dawn, or daybreak; (Lth, Az, A, O, K;) as also ↓ العَاطِسُ. (K.) You say, جَاآءَ فُلَانٌ قَبْلَ طُلُوعِ العُطَاسِ and هُبُوبِ العُطَاسِ (tropical:) [ Such a one came before the rising of the dawn ]. (A.) And a poet says, وَقَدْ أَغْتَدِى قَبْلَ العُطَاسِ بِسَابِحِ (assumed tropical:) [ And sometimes I go early in the morning, before dawn, with a horse that runs stretching out his fore legs gracefully as if swimming ]: but As relates that the meaning is said to be, before I hear the sneeze of a sneezer and augur evil from it; and that he had not heard any authority worthy of reliance for the meaning assigned by Lth. (TA.)