ميثرة

Tool noun from the root و ث ر (w-ṯ-r).

• IPA^(key): /miː.θa.ra/

مِيثَرَة • (mīṯara) f (plural مَوَاثِر (mawāṯir) or مَيَاثِر (mayāṯir))

1. a kind of shabrack or saddle-pillow made of silk, or other silk blankets
   • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 78:246:

     وَنَهَانَا عَنْ سَبْعٍ، عَنْ خَاتَمِ الذَّهَبِ – أَوْ قَالَ حَلْقَةِ الذَّهَبِ – وَعَنْ لُبْسِ الْحَرِيرِ، وَٱلدِّيبَاجِ، وَٱلسُّنْدُسِ، وَٱلْمَيَاثِرِ.

     wa-nahānā ʕan sabʕin, ʕan ḵātami ḏ-ḏahabi – ʔaw qāla ḥalqati ḏ-ḏahabi – wa-ʕan lubsi l-ḥarīri, wa-d-dībāji, wa-s-sundusi, wa-l-mayāṯiri.

     And he forbade us seven things: to wear golden signets – or golden rings – to wear silk, silk brocade, fine silk or silk saddle-pillows.

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ميثرة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2921
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ميثرة”, 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 435