قطر

قُطْرٌ ذ A side, part, portion, quarter, tract, or region, (S, Msb, K,) of the heavens, and of the earth; (TA;) as also قُتْرٌ (S, K, art. قتر,) and قُتُرٌ: (K, ibid.) either side of a man: pl. أَقْطَارٌ. (S, Msb, K.) You say أَلْقَاهُ على احد قُطْرَيْهِ He threw him down on one of his sides. (S, * Msb, * K, * TA.) And لَا أَدْرِى عَلَى أَىِّ قُطْرَيْهِ يَقَعُ [ I know not on which of his two sides he will fall; i. e., what will be his final state]. (JK.) And the pl. signifies The outer parts or regions (نَوَاحٍ) of a horse, and of a camel: the prominent parts of a horse, such as the withers (الكَاثِبَة) and the rump: the prominent parts of the upper portions of a camel, and of a mountain. (TA.) ― -b2- فُطْرُ دَائِرَةٍ [ The diameter of a circle; ] a straight line extending from one side of a circle to the other side so that its middle falls upon the centre (KT.) [But this is app. post-classical.] -A2- قُطْرٌ (S, K) and ↓ قُطُرٌ (S) Aloes-wood with which one fumigates. (S, K.)