Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

2 غبّاهُ عَنِ الشَّئِْ ذ , (TA,) inf. n. تَغْبِيَةٌ, (K, TA,) He covered, veiled, or concealed, (K, * TA,) him, or it, from the thing. (TA.) ― -b2- And غبّى البِئْرَ He covered the head [or mouth ] of the well, and then put over it earth, or dust. (TA.) -A2- غبّي شَعَرَهُ, (TA,) inf. n. as above, (K, TA,) He shortened his hair: (K, * TA:) of the dial. of 'Abd-el- Keys, and sometimes used by others: (TA:) and he eradicated it (K, TA) at once. (TA.)

4 اغبت السَّمَاآءُ ذ , inf. n. اـِغْبَاآءٌ, The sky rained such rain as is termed غَبْيَة [q. v.]. (AZ, S.)

غَبْيَةٌ ذ A rain that is not copious, (S, K,) but exceeding such as is termed بَغْشَة [q. v.]: (S:) or a vehement shower (K, TA) of rain: (TA:) pl. غَبَيَاتٌ. (S.) ― -b2- [And app. (assumed tropical:) A shower of arrows.] شَرُّ الغَبَيَاتِ غَبْيَةُ النَّبْلِ which seems clearly to mean (assumed tropical:) The worst of showers is the shower of arrows ] is a saying mentioned by As. (TA.) ― -b3- Also An abundant pouring of water: ― -b4- and likewise (assumed tropical:) of سِيَاط [i. e. stokes of the whip, or lashes ]: (K, TA:) thought by ISd to be thus termed as being likened to the غَبَيَات of rain. (TA.) ― -b5- And, as being likened to the rain thus termed, (tropical:) A running after another running: [but] A'Obeyd says, it is like a leap in pace or going. (S. [In three copies of the S, I find الغَبْيَةُ كَالوَثْبَةِ فِى السَّيْرِ as the explanation given by A'Obeyd: in one of my copies of the S, الغَبْيَةُ كَالزُّبْيَةِ: and in the TA, الغَيْبَةُ كالزبية فى السير: I have followed the first of these readings, as I cannot doubt its being the right.]) ― -b6- Also Dust of the earth. that has risen, or that has spread, or diffused itself; (K, TA;) as also ↓ غَبَاآءٌ; thus correctly; but in [some of] the copies of the K غِبَاآء, like كِسَاآء; [and accord. to other copies غَبًا;] it is like dust in the sky: or, as some say, it is the earth, or dust, with which the head [or mouth ] of the well is stopped up, upon the corer. (TA.) [See also art. غبو.] -A2- One says also, جَاؤُوا عَلَى غَبْيَةِ الشَّمْسِ, meaning غَيْبَتِهَا [i. e. They came at, or in the time of, the setting of the sun ]: (K, TA;) in which instance it is thought by ISd to be formed by transposition. (TA. [See also 1 in art. غبو.])

غَبَاآءٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph: ― -b2- and see also art. غبو.

غُصْنٌ أَغْبَى ذ , and شَجَرَةٌ غَبْيَاآءُ, A branch, and a tree, tangled, confused, or dense. (K.) -A2- اُدْخُلْ فِى النَّاسِ فَاـِنَّهُ أَغْبَى لَكَ means [ Enter thou among the people, for it will be ] most concealing for thee. (TA.)

سَمَاآءٌ مُغْبِيَةٌ ذ A sky raining such rain as is termed غَبِيَة [q. v.] (AZ, S.)

مُغَبَّاةٌ ذ i. q. مُغَطَّاةٌ: so in the saying, حَفَرَ مُغَبَّاةً [ He dug a pitfall which he afterwards covered over with earth ]: and [hence] one says, دَفَنَ لِى فُلَانٌ مُغْبَّاةً ثُمَّ حَمَلَنِى عَلَيْهَا [lit. Such a one covered over a pitfall for me, then urged me to go upon it ], meaning (assumed tropical:) such a one caused me to fall in [or by means of ] a stratagem that he had concealed. (TA.) -A2- Also i. q. مُفَوَّاةٌ [A land (أَرْضٌ) abounding with فُوَّة i. e. madder ]. (TA.)

1 غَتَّهُ ذ , (S, K,) aor. غَتُ3َ , inf. n. غَثٌّ, (TK,) He fatigued, or wearied, him, (كَدَّهُ,) بِالأَمْرِ [ by, or with, the affair ]. (S, K.) ― -b2- And He forced him to do a thing against his will, so that he afflicted, distressed, or oppressed, him. (TA.) And you say, غَتَّ الدَّابَّةَ شَوْطًا أَوْ شَوْطِيْنِ or wearied, the beast by urging it to run a heat, or two heats. (K, TA.) ― -b3- Also He grieved him; (K, TA;) and afflicted, distressed, or oppressed, him. (TA.) And غُتَّ He was grieved [&c.]. (Sh, TA.) ― -b4- And He overcame him, or silenced him, بِالكَلَامِ [ by speech, i. e. by what he said ]. (K, TA.) [Hence] it is said in a trad. respecting prayer, يَا مَنْ لَا يَغُثُّهُ دُعَاآءُ الدَّاعِينَ O Thou whom the praying of those who pray does not overcome. (TA.) And [hence, perhaps,] one says, غَثَّ الضَّحِكَ (aor. and inf. n. as above, TA,) He concealed laughter, (S, K, TA,) by putting his hand, or his garment, over his mouth. (TA.) ― -b5- Also He squeezed his throat, or throttled him: (K:) and he squeezed his throat for the period of an breath, or of two breaths, or, as some say, more than that. (TA.) It is said in a trad. respecting the mission [of Mohammad], فَأَخَذَنِى جِبْرِيلُ فَغَتَّنِى And Gabriel took me, and squeezed me vehemently, so that I experienced distress as when one is forcibly plunged into water: inf. n. غَتٌّ: and غَطٌّ signifies the same. (TA.) ― -b6- غَتَّهُ فِى المَاآءِ, (S, K, TA,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) is syn. with غَطَّهُ; (S, K, TA:) meaning He immersed, or plunged, him, or it, into the water. (TA.) ― -b7- And one says, غَتَّهُمُ ا@للّٰهُ بِالعَذَابِ, inf. n. as above, God plunged them. or may God plunge them, with consecutive plungings, into punishment. (TA.) ― -b8- And غَتَّ, aor. and inf. n. as above, He took successive draughts, keeping the vessel to his mouth. (AZ, TA.) And غَتَّ المَاآءَ, (K, TA,) and غَتَّ فِى الاـِنَاآءِ, (TA.) He drank, taking draught after draught, or gulp after gulp, without removing the vessel from his mouth. (K, TA.) ― -b9- And غَتَّ الشَّئَْ الشَّئَْ He made the part of the thing to follow another part thereof, (K, TA,) whether in drinking or in speaking [&c.] (TA.) ― -b10- ― -b11- It is said in a trad. respecting Mohammad's pool, يَغُتُّ فِيهِ مِيزَابَانِ i. e. Two spouts were pouring forth into it with an uninter rupted pouring: or it is said to mean, two spouts were running into it with a murmuring sound; accord. to which latter explanation we must read يَغِتُّ: and some say that it is يغطّ. (Az., L, TA.) [See also another reading voce عَبَّ.] ― -b12- And one says, غَتَّهُ بِجُشَمِهِ He threw his breast upon him. (TA in art. جشم.) -A2- غَتَّ, aor. غَتِ3َ , It was, or became, bad, or corrupt; said of food; and likewise of speech. (Aboo-Bekr, TA.) [See also غَثَّ.]

2 غَتّت الطَّعَامَ ذ , inf. n. تَغْتِيتٌ He made the food bad, or corrupt; as also ↓ اغتّهُ. (Aboo-Bekr, TA.)

4 أَغْتَ3َ see what next precedes.

غتٌّ ذ [inf. n. of 1, q. v. ― -b2- And] The interval between two draughts, or gulps, while the vessel is kept to the mouth. (TA.)

1 غَتِمَ ذ , aor. غَتَمَ , inf. n. غَتَمٌ, He had an impotence, or an impediment, or a difficulty, in his speech, or utterance; and a barbarousness, or vitiousness, therein, especially in speaking Arabic; i. e., a want of clearness, perspicuousness, distinctness, chasteness, or correctness, therein. (Msb.) -A2- غَتَمَ, said of food (طَعَام), It was, or became, wholesome, or beneficial. (TA.)

4 اغتم الزِّيَارَةَ ذ , (K, TA, in the CK [erroneously] اغْتَتَمَ,) He visited much, so as to weary. (K, TA.) One says, لَا تُغْتِمِ الزِّيَارَةَ فَتُمِلَّ [ Do not thou visit much, so as to weary ]. (TA.) ― -b2- And they said, كَانَ العَجَّاجُ يُغْتِمُ الشِّعْرَ i. e. El-'Ajjáj used to make poetry cause much wearying: and it is said in the A, أَغْتَمَ اآلُ العَجَّاجِ الرَّجْزَ i. e. The family of El- 'Ajjáj recited much poetry of the metre termed رَجَز; and he among them. (TA.)

8 اغتتم ذ He suffered from indigestion (K, TA) in consequence of much eating; and became affected by what is termed ↓ غَتْم [app. meaning heat of the stomach so intense as to take the breath ] arising from the distress occasioned by repletion. (TA.)

غَتْمٌ ذ Intense heat that almost takes away the breath. (S, K.) A rájiz says, (S,) namely, Mes'ood Ibn-Keyd [?] El-Fezáree, (TA,) describing camels, (S in art. فل,) حَرَّقَهَا حَمْضُ بِلَادِ فِلِّ وَغَتْمُ نَجْمٍ غَيْرِ مُسْتَقِلِّ [ The pasturage termed حمض of tracts of country not rained upon and not having fresh herbage rendered them thirsty, and the intense and almostsuffocating heat of a star not high ( above the horizon ), i. e. not having become high so as to be concealed by the rays of the sun]; i. e. [a star] not high (غَيْرِ مُرْتَفِعٍ) because of the constancy of the heat attributed to it [at the time of its auroral rising]; the heat becoming intense only at the time of the [auroral] rising of الشِّعْرَى, [meaning Sirius, the star to which allusion is here made,] which is in [correctly after] الجَوْزَاآء. (S. [See الشِّعْرَى.]) ― -b2- See also 8.

غُتْمٌ ذ Thick pieces [or clots or lumps ] of milk. (TA.)

غُتْمَةٌ ذ An impotence, or an impediment, or a difficulty, in speech, or utterance; and a barbarousness, or vitiousness, therein; i. e. a want of clearness, perspicuousness, distinctness, chasteness, or correctness, therein; meaning, in speaking Arabic; syn. عُجْمَةٌ. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.)

غُتْمِىٌّ ذ : see أَغْتَمُ. ― -b2- Hence, applied to milk, [and so, accord. to Reiske, as stated in Freytag's Lex., ↓ أَغْتَمُ,] Thick; the pouring forth of which is without any sound. (IAar, K.) ― -b3- And One who is heavy in spirit: from غُتْمٌ signifying as expl. above. (TA.)

حِيَاضُ غُتَيْمٍ ذ , like زُبَيْر, (so in copies of the K,) [or حياض غُتَيْمَ, for it is] a proper name for المَنِيَّةُ, (TA,) meaning Death, (K, TA,) like شَعُوبُ, imperfectly decl. [as being a proper name and of the fem. gender]; so says Z; and, accord. to Lh, الغُتَيْمُ signifies the same, but ISd says, “ I know it not save as from him. ” (TA.) One says, أَوْرَدَهُ حِيَاضَ غُتَيْم [ He brought him to death ]: and in like manner, وَقَعَ فِى أَحْوَاضِ غُتَيْم [ He fell into death ], expl. by Lh as meaning he died. (TA.)

أَغْتَمُ ذ , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and ↓ غُتْمِىٌّ, (S, * K, * TA,) [and ↓ أَغْتَمِىٌّ, occurring in the فاكهة الخلفاآء, p. 151, 1. 18, as mentioned by Freytag, who explains it as meaning “ barbarus, ”] One who does not utter anything with clearness, perspicuousness, or distinctness, or with chasteness, or correctness; (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA;) i. q. أَعْجَمُ: (TA:) fem. of the first, غَتْمَاآءُ, applied to a woman: (Msb, TA:) pl. of the first غُتْمٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and أَغْتَامٌ, (Mgh,) or this latter is pl. of the second. (TA.) ― -b2- See also غُتْمِىٌّ.

أَغْتَمِىٌّ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph.

مَغْتُومٌ ذ , Burned by the heat. (TA.)

1 غَثَّ ذ , aor. غَثِ3َ ; and غَثَّ, (originally غَثِثَ, TA) aor. غَثَ3َ ; (S, O, K;) said of flesh-meat; (S, O;) and غَثَّت; said of a شَاة [i. e. sheep or goat]; (S, O, Msb;) inf. n. غَثَاثَةٌ and غُثُوثَةٌ, (S, O, K,) or غَثٌّ; (Msb;) and ↓ اغثّ, (K,) or اغثّت, (S, O,) or both; (TA;) It was, or became, lean, or meagre: (S, O, K:) or غَثَّت, said of a شاة, it was, or became, weak. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence the saying,] غَثَّ الحَدِيثُ (tropical:) The talk, or discourse, was, or became, [ meagre, or] bad, or corrupt; (S, A, O, K;) as also ↓ اغثّ. (S, K.) [See غَثٌّ.] ― -b3- And لَا يَغِثُّ عَلَيْهِ شَئٌْ (assumed tropical:) [ Nothing is bad in his opinion; so that ] he does not say of anything that it is bad, and therefore leave it. (S, K.) And مَا يَغِثُّ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ (assumed tropical:) [ No one is to be disregarded in his opinion; so that ] he does not leave any one unasked by him. (T, A, O, K.) And غَثَّتْ عَلَيْنَا مَكَّةُ فَلَا بُدَّ لَنَا مِنْ خُرُوجٍ (assumed tropical:) [ Mekkeh has become unpleasing (as though insipid) to us, so that there is for us no avoiding going forth ]. (A.) ― -b4- And غَثَّ, (S, O, K,) aor. غَثِ3َ , inf. n. غَثٌّ and غَثِيثٌ, (S, O,) is said of a wound, meaning It flowed with thick purulent matter, as also ↓ اغثّ, (S, O, K,) and with dead flesh. (S and O in explanation of the former verb.)

2 غثّثت الاـِبِلُ ذ , (El-Umawee, O, TA,) inf. n. تَغْثِيثٌ, (El-Umawee, O, K,) The camels became fat (El-Umawee, O, K, TA) by little and little: (O, K, TA:) [or became somewhat fat; for] one says, غَثَّ بَعِيرِى ثُمَّ غَثَّثَ My camel became lean; then he became somewhat fat. (A, TA.)

4 أَغْثَ3َ see 1, in three places. ― -b2- You say also, اغثّ فِى مَنْطِقِهِ (tropical:) He [ was meagre in his diction; or] spoke badly, or corruptly. (S, TA.) And اغثّ فِى كَلَامِهِ (assumed tropical:) He said that in which was no good. (A, Msb.) -A2- And اغثّ اللَّحْمَ He bought the flesh-meat lean. (S, O.)

5 أَتَغَثَّثُ مَا أَنَا عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى أَتَسَمَّنَ ذ means (assumed tropical:) I do what is of an inferior kind that I may find much; as also ↓ أَسْتَغِثُّهُ: (A, TA:) or أَتَغَثَّثُ حَتَّى أَسْتَسْمِنَ, meaning (assumed tropical:) I deem my doing to be little that I may obtain thereby much recompense. (O.)

8 اغتثّت الخَيْلُ ذ (as also اغتفّت and اغتبّت, O) The horses found, or lighted upon, somewhat of the [ herbage called ] رَبِيع, (O, K, TA,) and became fat in consequence thereof after having been lean. (TA.)

10 استغثّ الجُرْحَ ذ He extracted from the wound the thick purulent matter therein, (S, K,) and the dead flesh, and treated it curatively. (S.) -A2- See also 5.

R. Q. 1 غَثْغَثَ ذ , (O,) inf. n. غَثْغَثَةٌ, (K,) He remained, stayed, dwelt, or abode, (O, K,) in a place. (O.) -A2- [And it seems to signify also He washed clothes without an implement of the kind called مِقْصَرَة (q. v.): for ― -b2- ] غَثْغَثَةٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) Weak fighting, without a weapon: (O, K:) likened to the غَثْغَثَة of the garment, or piece of cloth, [which is] when it is washed with the hands [app. meaning with the hands only]. (O.)

غَثٌّ ذ Lean, or meagre; (S, A, O, K;) as also ↓ غَثِيثٌ; (S, O, K;) both applied to flesh-meat; and the former, with ة, to a شَاة [i. e. sheep or goat]: (S, O:) pl. غِثَاثٌ. (MA.) ― -b2- Hence, i. e. as being likened to flesh-meat thus termed, كَلَامٌ غَثٌّ (assumed tropical:) Speech, or language, that is [ meagre, ] without grace, or beauty. (Ham p. 757.) One says, فِى الكَلَامِ الغَثُّ وَالسَّمِينُ (assumed tropical:) [ In speech, or the speech, is what is meagre and what is vigorous; or] what is good and what is bad [or rather what is bad and what is good ]. (Msb.) And حَدِيثُكُمْ غَثٌّ وَسِلَاحُكُمْ رَثٌّ (assumed tropical:) [ Your talk, or discourse, is meagre, or bad, and your weapons are old and worn out ]. (A.) And قَوْمٌ غَثَثَةٌ (assumed tropical:) [ A people, or party, meagre, or bad, in speech: غَثَثَةٌ being pl. of غَثٌّ, like as بَرَرَةٌ is of بَرٌّ]. (A. [The meaning that I have given is there indicated by the context.])

غُثَّةٌ ذ A lean, or meagre, شَاة [i. e. sheep or goat ]. (TA.) [See also غَثٌّ.] -A2- And A sufficiency of the means of subsistence: (O, K:) like غُفَّةٌ and غُبَّةٌ. (O.)

الغَثِثُ ذ and ↓ الغُثَاغِثُ The lion. (O, K.)

غَثَاثٌ ذ [if not a mistranscription for the inf. n. غَثَاثَةٌ] Leanness, or meagreness, of a camel [&c.]. (A, TA.)

غَثِيثٌ ذ : see غَثٌّ: -A2- and see what here follows.

غَثِيثَةٌ ذ , (S, O,) or ↓ غَثِيثٌ, (A, K,) The thick purulent matter, (S, A, O, K,) and dead flesh, (S, O,) of a wound. (S, A, O, K.) ― -b2- And [hence, probably,] the former word, (assumed tropical:) A corrupt, or disordered, state of mind. (S, A, O, K.) So in the saying, لَبِسْتُهُ عَلَى غَثِيثَةٍ فِيهِ [meaning (assumed tropical:) I consorted with him (see لَبِسَ) notwithstanding a corrupt, or disordered, state of mind in him ]. (S, O, L, TA. [In a copy of the A, لَسْتُ عَلَى غَثِيثَةٍ, meaning (assumed tropical:) I am not in a corrupt, or disordered, state of mind: but the former, I doubt not, is the right reading.]) -A2- Also A palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ) that produces ripe dates without sweetness. (O, K.) ― -b2- And Foolish, or stupid, in whom is no good: (O, K:) or foolish, or stupid: and also one who speaks that in which is no good. (TA.)

الغُثَاغِثُ ذ : see الغَثِثُ.

1 غَثَرَتِ الأَرْضُ بِالنَّبَاتِ ذ i. q. مَأَدَت (thus in the JK [app. meaning The land became flourishing and fresh with herbage ]): or مَادَت (thus in the O and K [i. e. without ء; but the former, I think, is evidently the right: the meaning which I have given may be from غَثَرٌ, q. v., and therefore tropical: and it may be inferred from what here follows that the verb is correctly, or originally, غَثْرَت, fem. of ↓ غَثْرَى]). The epithet applied to such land is ↓ مُغَثْرِيَةٌ. (JK, O, K.)

4 اغثر ذ It (the [species of tree, or shrub, called] رِمْث [&c.]) exuded what is termed مُغْثُور [q. v.]; (K;) as also اغفر. (TA.) ― -b2- See also عَيَّرَ, last sentence.

11 اغثارّ ذ It (a garment, or piece of cloth,) had much غَثَر i. e. nap, or villous substance, (K, TA,) and wool. (TA.)

Q. Q. 1 غَثْرَى ذ : see the first paragraph.

Q. Q. 2 تَمَغْثَرَ ذ He gathered مُغْثُور [q. v.]. (K.) You say, خَرَجَ النَّاسُ يَتَمَغْثَرُونَ, like يَتَمَغْفَرُونَ, The people went forth to gather مَغَاثِير [pl. of مُغْثُورٌ]. (TA.)

غَثَرٌ ذ The nap, or villous substance, of a garment, or piece of cloth; (K, TA;) and the wool thereof. (TA.)

غَثْرَةٌ ذ Abundance: (TA:) [and particularly] abundance of herbage, and of the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life; ampleness [ thereof ] (K, TA.) ― -b2- And A portion of property. (TA.)

غُثْرَةٌ ذ A dust-colour inclining to خُضْرَة [which here app. means a dingy ash-colour ]: (S, TA:) or, as some say, [simply] dust-colour: (TA:) or it is like duskiness (غُبْشَةٌ) mixed with redness. (K, TA.)

غَثَرَةٌ ذ : see أَغْثَرُ, last sentence.

غَثَارِ ذ , or غَثَارُ, accord. to the CK غُثَارٌ: see أَغْثَرُ.

الغَوْثَرُ ذ and الغَثَوْثَرُ: see أَغْثَرُ, former half.

غَيْثَرَةٌ ذ A threatening. (K.) ― -b2- And Fight, or conflict; and commotion, or tumult: so in the saying, تَرَكْتُ القَوْمَ فِى غَيْثَرَةٍ and غَيْثَمَةٍ [ I left the people, or party, in fight, &c.]: (As, TA:) or, accord to IAar, it means the treading, or trampling, of the people, or party, one upon another, (مُدَاوَسَةُ القَوْمِ بَعْضِهِمْ بَعْضًا,) in fight, or conflict: you say, بَيْنَ القَوْمِ غَيْثَرَةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ [ Among the people, or party, is a vehement treading, &c.]. (S, TA.) -A2- See also أَغْثَرُ, last sentence, in two places.

أَغْثَرُ ذ , (S,) and [the fem.] غَثْرَاآءُ, (K,) Dustcoloured: (K, TA:) or of a dingy, or dusky, colour: (TA:) or of a dingy, or dusky, colour: (TA:) or [ of the colour termed غُثْرَة, which is] nearly the same as dust-coloured. (S, K, TA.) 'Omárah says, حَتَّى ا@كْتَسَيْتُ مِنَ المَشِيبِ عِمَامَةً غَثْرَاآءَ أَغْفِرُ لَوْنَهَا بِخِضَابِ [ Until I attired myself with a dusky turban of hoariness, the colour of which I concealed with hair-dye ]. (TA.) ― -b2- أَغْثَرُ is applied as an epithet to a ram That is not red [or brown ] nor black ner white; (IAar, TA;) meaning of a dusky, or dingy, colour. (TA.) And it is so applied to a wolf. (IAar, TA.) And الأَغْثَرُ signifies The wolf; (TA;) as also الأَغْبَرُ. (TA in art. غبر.) ― -b3- And [in like manner] الغَثْرَاآءُ signifies The hyena, or female hyena; (K, TA;) because of its colour: (TA;) as also ↓ غَثَارِ, (O, K, TA,) like قَطَامِ, (O, TA,) determinate; (K, TA;) [accord. to the CK غُثَارٌ, which is wrong;] and accord. to IAar ↓ غَثَارُ, imperfectly declinable. (TA.) ― -b4- And الأَغْثَرُ signifies also The lion; and so ↓ الغَثَوْثَرُ: (K:) or the latter, as also ↓ الغَوْثَرُ, the lion that is in a confused, or perplexed, case. (O.) ― -b5- And A certain bird, (K, TA,) having confused, or disordered, plumage, (TA,) long in the neck, (K, TA,) in the colour of which is غُثْرَة [q. v.], and which is of the aquatic kind. (TA.) ― -b6- أَكَلَتْهُمُ الغَثْرَاآءُ [which may be rendered The hyena, or female hyena, devoured them ] means (assumed tropical:) they perished. (Z, TA.) ― -b7- غَثْرَاآءُ applied to [garments of the kind called] أَكْسِيَة [pl. of كِسَاآءٌ] (K, TA) and قَطَائِف [pl. of قَطِيفَةٌ] and the like, and to an عَبَاآءَة, (TA,) signifies Having much wool (L, K, TA) and nap, or villous substance. (L.) ― -b8- الأَغْثَرُ also signifies The [ green substance that overspreads stale water, called ] طُحْلُب. (S, TA.) ― -b9- Also (assumed tropical:) The ignorant man: and the stupid man: likened to the hyena, or female hyena, which is one of the most stupid of beasts, and of which one of the appellations is الغَثْرَاآءُ. (IDrd, TA.) ― -b10- And الغَثْرَاآءُ and الغُثْرُ, (S, K, TA,) which latter is the pl. of الأَغْثَرُ, (S, TA,) (assumed tropical:) The low, base, vile, ignoble, mean, or sordid, or the refuse, or rabble, of mankind; as also ↓ الغَثْرَةُ, (S, K, TA,) said to be originally ↓ الغَيْثَرَةُ, (S, TA,) which signifies the same: (S, K, TA:) and غَثْرَاآءُ is also expl. as meaning a mixed assemblage of people (K, TA) of the low, base, vile, ignoble, mean, or sordid, or of the refuse, or rabble, of mankind; (TA;) and so ↓ غَيْثَرَةٌ: (AZ, TA:) or a mixed assemblage of people of various tribes: or the unknown common people: or the commonalty, or generality, of men. (TA.)

مِغْثَرٌ ذ : see what next follows.