عتيرة

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.tiː.ra/

عَتِيرَة • (ʕatīra) f (plural عَتَائِر (ʕatāʔir))

1. goat or sheep destined for sacrifice
   • 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 41:5:

     فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ «يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْعَتَائِرُ وَٱلْفَرَائِعُ؟» قَالَ «مَنْ شَاءَ عَتَرَ وَمَنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يَعْتِرْ وَمَنْ شَاءَ فَرَّعَ وَمَنْ شَاءَ لَمْ يُفَرِّعْ فِي الْغَنَمِ أُضْحِيَتُهَا»

     fa-qāla rajulun mina n-nāsi “yā rasūla lāhi al-ʕatāʔiru wa-l-farāʔiʕu?” qāla “man šāʔa ʕatara wa-man šāʔa lam yaʕtir wa-man šāʔa farraʕa wa-man šāʔa lam yufarriʕ fī l-ḡanami ʔuḍḥiyatuhā”

     Then a man among the people said: “O Messenger of Allah, what about the goat slaughter and goat firstling slaughter?” He said: “Whoso wishes to offer a goat may do so, and whoso does not wish to may not. Whoso wishes to offer a firstling may do so, and whoso does not wish to may not. And with regard to sheep, a sacrifice should be made.”

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “عتيرة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 103
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “عتيرة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1946