دثر
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaدَاثِرٌ داثر , applied to a trace, or mark, of a house; or to what remains, cleaving to the ground, marking the place of a house; Being covered with sand and dust blown over it by the wind; or being effaced, or obliterated, by the blowing of the winds over it. (A, * Msb, * TA.) You say فُلَانٌ جَدُّهُ عَاثِرٌ وَ رَسْمُهُ دَاثِرٌ (assumed tropical:) Such a one's good fortune is at an end, and his vestige is being effaced. (A.) ― -b2- In a state of perdition. (M, K.) Hence the saying فُلَانٌ خَاسِرٌ دَاسِرٌ [ Such a one is erring, in a state of perdition ]: or it is here an imitative sequent [merely corroborative; for خاسر has also the same signification]: (M, TA:) and some say دَابِرٌ. (M.) ― -b3- A sword (tropical:) sullied by remaining long unpolished; rusty. (AZ, T, M, * A, K.) ― -b4- (tropical:) Negligent; inconsiderate; (L, K;) as also ↓ أَدْثَرُ (K) and ↓ دثر [written without the syll. signs]: (L:) (tropical:) one who does not care for, or esteem, finery. (A.)
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