استطار

• IPA^(key): /is.ta.tˤaː.ra/

اِسْتَطَارَ • (istaṭāra) X (non-past يَسْتَطِيرُ (yastaṭīru), verbal noun اِسْتِطَارَة (istiṭāra))

1. (transitive) to cause to fly
2. (transitive) to knock out of one's hand
3. (transitive) to agitate, to alarm, to upset, to disturb
   • 2011, خالد الصّوفي, تاريخ العرب في إسبانيا: نهاية الخلافة الأمويّة في الأندلس [History of the Arabs in Spain. The End of The Ummayad Caliphate in Al-Andalus], بغداد [Baghdad], بيروت [Beirut], Freiberg am Neckar: منشورات الجمل [Al-Kamel Verlag], page 15:

     وبهذا الشكل تخلصت الأندلس العربية من هذا الشرّ المستطير الذي كان يهدد بالقضاء على الدولة الأموية الناشئة لولا أن الظروف حالفت العرب.

     And thus Arab Andalusia freed herself of this disturbing malignancy which threatened the rising Ummayad state with elimination, were it not for the circumstances that favored the Arabs.

4. (intransitive) to disperse, to diffuse, to be scattered, to spread
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 76:07:

     يُوفُونَ بِالنَّذْرِ وَيَخَافُونَ يَوْمًا كَانَ شَرُّهُ مُسْتَطِيرًا

     yūfūna bi-n-naḏri wayaḵāfūna yawman kāna šarruhu mustaṭīran

     They fulfil their vows and fear a Day where evil will spread.

5. (intransitive) to permeate, to be exuded (of a fragrance)
6. (intransitive) to fly in all directions (of sparks)
7. (intransitive) to vanish, to disappear

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “استطار”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 79
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “استطار”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 83
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “استطار”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 797