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إِِطَارٌ اطار إِطار Anything that surrounds another thing: (S, A, Msb, K:) as the hoop of a tambourine, (A, Mgh, TA,) and of a sieve. (S, A, Mgh, K.) ― -b2- A ring of hair surrounding the head, the middle of it being bald. (TA.) ― -b3- ― -b4- The branches of a vine, bent, or wreathed, so as to form a covering over-head. (K.) ― -b5- See also أُطْرَةٌ, in two places. ― -b6- إِِطَارُ الحَافِرِ The part of the hoof of a horse or the like which surrounds, or extends around, the أَشْعَر [q.v.]. (S.) ― -b7- إِِطَارُ الشَّفَةِ (S, K, &c.) (tropical:) The part, (A,) or flesh, (Msb,) surrounding the lip: (A, Msb:) or the part that separates between the lip and the hairs of the mustache: (K:) or the edge of the upper lip, between the lip itself and the parts where the hair grows: (IAth:) or the rising edge, or ridge, between the part where the mustache is clipped and the lip, intermixing with the mouth. (A'Obeyd.) The Muslim should clip his mustache so that this part shall appear. (Msb, TA.) ― -b8- إِِطَارُ بَيْتٍ A thing resembling a zone, or belt, of a tent or house. (K.) ― -b9- إِِطَارِ مِنَ النَّاسِ (tropical:) A ring, or circle, of men. (K.) One says, هُمْ إِِطَارٌ لِبَنِى فُلَانٍ (tropical:) They have alighted and taken up their abode [so that they form a ring] around the sons of such a one. (A, Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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