abundance
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Pleiades
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| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme 1 | ثَرِىَ | |
| lexeme 2 | الثُّرَيَّا | |
| meaning 1 | to become abundant in cattle or other property, wealth | لَكُمْ قِبْصُهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَثْرَى وَأَقْتَرَا (says a poet El-Kumeyt, praising the Benoo-Umeiyeh) You have the number of the pebbles of such as are between him who is wealthy and him who is poor, i.e. between one who enriched and one who acquired the wealth (=rich and poor). |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Pleiades | |
| reference | Lane: 335-336 | |
| comment | ||
The constellation of Pleiades (the Third Mansion of the Moon) is believed to be the most beneficial, in its influence on the weather, of all the Mansions of the Moon, on account of the period of its auroral setting, which, in central Arabia, about the commencement of the era of the Flight, began on the 12th of November. Hence, as being the most excellent of all asterisms, it is called by the Arabs النَّجوم lit. 'stars': the former appellation is given to it because it comprises, in appearance, many stars in a small space; for it is said that amid its conspicuous stars are many obscure stars; the number altogether being said to be four and twenty, agreeably with an assertion of the Prophet: some say that it is so called because of the abundance of the rain (نَوٌء), here meaning auroral setting. The word is thus applied only in the dim. form, which is used in this instance to denote magnification. (Lane:335-336)