ID 552 • Sw 64/12 • BP 2403 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ṬYR
1 flying; 2 flyer, aviator, pilot; 3 (pl. -āt, ṭayr) bird; 4 omen, presage – WehrCowan1979.
▪ Grammatically a PA, from ṭāra, vb. I, ‘to fly’ (↗ṭayr). [v1] is the primary meaning.
▪ [v2] neolog., nominalized adj.
▪ [v3] lit., *‘the flying one’.
▪ [v4] prob. fig. use, a ‘flying one’ (bird) being taken as a (bad) omen; cf. also ↗ṭīraẗ
▪ Engl Altair, C16, a bright star in the constellation Aquila, from Ar (al-nasr) al-ṭāʔir ‘the flying (eagle)’, from ṭāʔir ‘flying’, PA of ṭāra ‘to fly’ – Huehnergard2011, EtymOnline .
► sukūn al-ṭāʔir, n., graveness, sedateness
► ʕalà al-ṭāʔir al-maymūn, expr., good luck! Godspeed! (said to s.o. setting out on a journey)
► ṭāra ṭāʔiru-hū, vb. I, to become angry, blow one’s top For other items from this root, see ↗ṭayr, ↗ṭīraẗ; for the general picture, ↗ṬYR.
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