خطر1 خَطَرَ بِذَنَبِهِ, (S, A, Mgh, K, TA,) aor. ـِ [in the CK, erroneously, خَطُرَ,] inf. n. خَطْرٌ and خَطَرَانٌ (S, Mgh, K) and خَطِيرٌ, (JK, K,) He (a camel, S, Mgh, or a stallion [camel], A, K) raised his tail time after time, and struck his thighs with it: (S:) or lashed with it to the right and left: (K:) or moved about his tail: (A, * Mgh, TA:) the stallion does so in threatening, through pride; (T, TA;) or in fighting with others, as though threatening; (A;) or by reason of emaciation occasioned by severe drought; or by reason of sprightliness: but a she-camel, to inform the stallion that she has become pregnant. (TA.) You say also, غَطَرَ بذنبه, aor. ـِ the غ being a substitute for the خ: (TA:) or each form may be original; but the latter is the less used. (IJ, TA.) b2:  [Hence,] خَطَرَ بِرْمْحِهِ, (A, * K,) and بِسَيْفِهِ, (K,) and بِقَضِيبِهِ, and بِسَوْطِهِ, (TA,) inf. n. خَطَرَانٌ, (K,) (tropical:)  He moved his spear up and down, and his sword, (K, TA,) and his rod, and his whip. (TA.) A man does so with the spear when he walks between the two [opposing] ranks. (A.) b3:  And خَطَرَ بِيَدِهِ فِى مَشْيِهِ (tropical:)  [He moved his arm up and down in his walking]. (A.) And خَطَرَ فِى مِشْيَتِهِ, (K,) aor. ـِ (TA,) inf. n. خَطَرَانٌ (K) and خَطِيرٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:)  He moved his arms up and down in his mode of walking, (K, TA,) inclining  his body from side to side at the same time. (TA.) And خَطَرَ, aor. ـِ (TA,) inf. n. خَطَرَانٌ, (S,) (assumed tropical:)  He (a man) shook himself in walking; (S;) and walked with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side. (S, TA.) الجُنْدُ يَخْطِرُونَ حَوْلَ قَائِدِهِمْ (assumed tropical:)  [The troops strut around their leader] is said when they show their energy to their leader; and in like manner, when they assemble and equip themselves in war. (TA.) b4:  And خَطَرَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. خَطْرٌ, (assumed tropical:)  He (a man) raised his arm, or hand, with a stone which he lifted for the purpose of trying his strength, to cast, or throw, and shook the stone in lifting it. (TA.) b5:  And خَطَرَ بِإِصْبَعِهِ إِلَى السَّمَآءِ (tropical:)  He moved his finger, [or raised it towards the sky,] in supplication. (A.) [This one does in the ordinary prayers, in uttering the profession of belief in the unity of God; raising the first finger only (of the right hand, which is placed on the thigh, while sitting on the left foot), and not the hand itself.]b6:  And خَطَرَ, (S, K,) aor. ـِ inf. n. خَطَرَانٌ, (S,) (assumed tropical:)  It (a spear) quivered, vibrated, or shook: (S, K:) or moved up and down previously to a thrusting with it. (S.) b7:  خَطَرَ بِبَالِى, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) and عَلَى بَالِى, (JK, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (S, ISd, IKtt, Mgh, K) and خَطِرَ, (ISd, IKtt, K,) inf. n. خُطُورٌ, (JK, S, Mgh, K,) or خَطَرٌ, (Msb,) and خَطَرَانٌ, (JK,) or this last is a mistranscription, (Mgh,) (tropical:)  It bestirred itself in my mind: (A: [see خَاطِرٌ:]) or it moved my mind: (Msb:) or it occurred to my mind [absolutely, or] after I had forgotten it. (K.) b8: خَطَرَ الشَّيْطَانُ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ قَلْبِهِ (assumed tropical:)  The devil put vain suggestions into his mind. (TA.) خَطَرَ الدَّهْرُ خَطَرَانَهُ, (S,) or مِنْ خَطَرَانِهِ, (TA,) (tropical:)  [Fortune, or time, produced, or brought to pass, its events, or among its events such and such things]: a phrase like ضَربَ الدَّهْرُ ضَرَبَانَهُ, (S,) or مِنْ ضَرَبَانِهِ. (T, A. [See art. ضرب.]) A2:  خَطُرَ, aor. ـُ (S, A, Msb, K,) inf. n. خُطُورَةٌ, (S, K,) or خَطَرٌ, (Msb,) (tropical:)  He (a man, S &c.) was, or became, eminent, noble, or of high rank, (Msb, K,) or characterized by rank or station. (S, A.) And خَطَرَ, [or this is probably a mistranscription for خَطُرَ,] aor. ـُ inf. n. خَطَرٌ and خُطُورٌ, [or, more probably, خُطُورَةٌ,] (assumed tropical:)  He was, or became, great in estimation, rank, or dignity, after having been little in respect thereof. (TA.) 2 خطّر, inf. n. تَخْطِيرٌ, (assumed tropical:)  He took, got, or won, a bet, wager, or stake. (L in art. ندب, and TA.) 3 خاطر بِنَفْسِهِ, (S, A, Msb, K,) and بِقَوْمِهِ, (A,) inf. n. مُخَاطَرَةٌ; (TK;) and بقومه ↓ اخطر; (A;) He placed himself at the point of, or near to, destruction; perilled, imperilled, endangered, jeoparded, hazarded, or risked, himself; (S, A;) and his people or party: (A:) or خاطر بنفسه signifies he did that in which fear predominated: (Msb:) or he caused himself to be on the brink of destruction or of attaining dominion. (K.) And خاطر بِنَفْسِهِ وَمَالِهِ He threw himself and his property into destruction. (TA.) And ↓ اخطر لَهُ كَذَا He hazarded, or risked, to him such a thing. (L.) [See also 4, below.] b2:  خاظرهُ عَلَىكَذَا, (S, A,) or عَلَى مَالٍ, (Msb,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) (tropical:)  He laid a bet, wager, or stake, with him, (S, * A, Msb,) for such a thing, (S, A,) or for property. (Msb.) [See, again, 4.]4 اخطرهُ اللّٰهُ بِبَالِى, (S, K,) [and عَلَى بَالِى, (see 1,)] (tropical:)  God caused it [to bestir itself in my mind: or to move my mind: or] to occur to my mind after I had forgotten it. (K.) A2:  See also 3, in two places. b2:  اخطرالمَالَ, (S, K, &c.,) inf. n. إِخْطَارٌ, (Msb,) (tropical:)  He made the property a stake (S, A, Msb, K) between the parties betting. (S, Msb, K.) And أَخْطَرَ لِى وَأَخْطَرْتُ لَهُ (tropical:)  [He laid me a bet and I laid him a bet;] we laid bets, wagers, or stakes, one to another. (K. [See also 3.]) And اخطر المَوْتَ نَفْسَهُ (tropical:)  He made his soul a stake to death [by exposing it to be taken by death, like as a stake is taken by one of two parties who have betted]. (TA.) And اخطر [alone] (tropical:)  He made himself, or his soul, a stake to his adversary, and sallied forth against him. (K.) b3:  أَخْطَرَهُمْ خَطَرًا and اخطر لَهُمْ خَطَرًا (assumed tropical:)  He gave them liberally, or freely, a lot, portion, or share, or a compensation, such as contented them. (TA.) b4:  اخطرهُ He (God) made him to be characterized by rank, or station. (A.) b5: اخطر فُلَانٌ فُلَانًا (assumed tropical:)  Such a one became like in rank, or station, to such a one. (K.) And أُخْطِرْتُ لِفُلَانٍ (assumed tropical:)  I was made like to such a one in rank, or station. (Lth, TA.) And أُخْطِرَ بِهِ He was made equal. (TA. [See أُنْظِرَ بِهِ.]) 6 تَخَاطَرَتِ الفُحُولُ بِأَذْنَابِهَا [The stallions of the camels lashed with their tails] previously to their attacking one another. (A.) A2:  تخاطروا (tropical:)  They  laid bets, wagers, or stakes, one with another, (K, TA,) عَلَى أَمْرٍ for a thing. (TA.) and تخاطرا عَلَيْهِ (tropical:)  They two laid bets, wagers, or stakes, for it. (A.) خَطْرٌ: see خِطْرٌ: A2:  and خَطَرٌ, in two places: A3:  and خَاطِرٌ.خِطْرٌ A large number of camels: (S, K:) or forty: (K:) or two hundred; (AHát, K;) and the like of sheep or goats: (TA:) or a thousand thereof: (K:) and more: (TA:) and ↓ خَطْرٌ signifies the same: (K:) pl. أَخْطَارٌ. (S, K.) A2: A certain plant, with which one dyes or tinges, himself or his hair, (S, K,) its leaves being put into black dye: (TA:) it resembles the plant called كَتَم, with which it often grows; and old men dye their hair with it: (AHn:) or [the plant called] وَسْمَة: (K:) [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة. (AHn, K.) b2:  Hence, (S,) (tropical:)  Milk mixed with much water: (S, K, TA:) as though it were tinged [with the plant so called]. (TA.) b3:  and A branch (K) of a tree: pl. خِطَرَةٌ, which is extr.; or as though the ة were imagined to be elided. (TA.) خَطَرٌ The being at the point of, or near to, destruction; (JK, S, A, Msb, K;) [imminent danger; peril; jeopardy; risk; hazard;] and fear of perishing: (Msb:) pl. أَخْطَارٌ. (A.) Yousay, هُوَ عَلَى خَطَرٍ عَظِيمٍ He is [in a state of great peril,  or] on the brink of destruction. (A.) and رَكْبُوا الأَخْطَارَ [They embarked in perilous undertakings; or braved perils]. (A.) [And أَمْرُ لَهُ خَطَرٌ and ذُو خَطَرٍ A perilous affair or event or case: and hence, a momentous, or an important, affair or event or case; an affair, or event,. or a case, of moment or importance or magnitude: see also خَطِيرٌ.] And خَطَرٌ [alone] signifies A thing, or an affair, &c., of great magnitude: and a trial, or an affliction: pl. as above. (Har p. 264.) b2:  (tropical:)  A bet, wager, stake, or thing wagered; a thing staked at a shooting-match or a race, and taken by the winner: (T, S, * A, * Mgh, * Msb, * K, * TA:) [accord. to the TA, this is the primary signification; but accord. to the A, it is tropical:] pl. as above; (Msb;) or خِطَارٌ; and pl. pl. خُطُرٌ: (K: [but in some copies of the K, the last is written أَخْطَارٌ; and so in the TA, where it is added that some say it is pl. of خَطَرٌ, like as أَسْبَابٌ is of سَبَبٌ, and أَنْدَابٌ of نَدَبٌ:]) خَطَرٌ and سَبَقٌ and نَدَبٌ all signify the same. (TA.) You say, وَضَعُوا خَطَرًا (tropical:)  [They laid a bet]. (A.) And أَحْرَزَ فُلَانٌ الخَطَرَ (tropical:)  [Such a one won the bet]. (A.) b3:  Hence, [app. as being likened to a stake won,] (TA,) (tropical:)  Eminence; nobility; as also ↓ خَطْرٌ: (K, TA:) in which sense it has become so much used as to be, in this acceptation, conventionally regarded as proper: (TA:) also excellence: (TA:) and (as also ↓ خَطْرٌ, TA) rank; degree of dignity; station; of a man: (S, A, K, TA:) and highness of rank or account or estimation: and wealth: (TA:) pl. أَخْطَارٌ: (A:) accord. to some, it is only used to signify high rank: but accord. to others, you say, إِنَّهُ لَعَظِيمُ الخَطَرِ (tropical:)  [Verily he is of great dignity] with respect to his good actions and his nobility, and صَغِيرُ الخَطَرِ (tropical:)  [of little rank] with  respect to his evil actions and his ignobleness. (TA.) Also (assumed tropical:)  A lot, or portion, or share. (TA.) b4:  And (assumed tropical:)  A compensation. (TA.) A2:  (assumed tropical:)  A like, or fellow, (S, K,) in rank or station, (S,) or in eminence; (K;) as also ↓خَطِيرٌ. (S, K.) Yousay, هٰذَا خَطَرٌ لِهٰذَا, and ↓خَطِيرٌ, (assumed tropical:) This is like to that. (S.) And الجَنَّةُ لَا خَطَرَ لَهَا (assumed tropical:)  Paradise has not its like. (TA.) And ↓فُلَانٌ لَيْسَ لَهُ خَطِيرٌ (assumed tropical:) Such a one has not his like or fellow. (TA.) A3: Also [an inf. n. of خَطَرَ in the phrase خَطَرَ بِبَالِى and عَلَى بَالِى, accord. to the Msb And hence,] (assumed tropical:) A vain suggestion of the devil. (JK.) [See خَاطِرٌ.]خَطِرٌ: see خَاطِرٌ.خَطْرَةٌ [inf. n. of un. of خَطَرَ: and hence,] (assumed tropical:)  A going away; and walking with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side. (Har p. 35.) b2:  See also خَاطِرٌ. b3:  مَا لَقِيتُهُ إِلَا خَطْرَةً (tropical:)  [I met him not save] sometime; (A;) or sometimes. (K.) And مَا ذَكَرْتُهُ إِلَّا خَطْرَةً بَعْدَ خَطْرَةٍ (tropical:)  [I remembered not, or mentioned not, him, or it, save sometime after sometime; i. e., save] sometimes. (A.) b4:  أَصَابَتْهُ خَطْرَةٌ مِنَ الجِنِّ (assumed tropical:)  A touch, or stroke, from the jinn, or genii, befell him; or madness, or insanity, [proceeding] from the jinn; syn. مَسٌّ. (K, * TA.) b5:  بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَهُ خَطْرَةُ رَحِمٍ (IAar, TA) app. means (assumed tropical:)  Between me and him is a tie of relationship. (TA.) b6: رَعَيْنَا خَطَرَاتِ الوَسْمِىِّ (assumed tropical:)  We pastured [our beasts] upon the patches of herbage produced by the [rain called] وسمىّ. (K, * TA.) b7: خَطْرَةٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:)  A small quantity [or shower] of rain: pl. خِطَارٌ (JK) [and probably خَطَرَاتٌ also]. b8:  And one says, ↓لَا جَعَلَهَا اللّٰهُ خَطْرَتَهُ وَلَا جَعَلَهَا آخِرَ مَخْطَرٍمِنْهُ [app. referring to rain, and meaning (assumed tropical:)  May  God not make it to be the only shower, or fall, thereof, or the only time thereof; nor  make it to be the last time thereof]; (TA;) آخِرَ مَخْطَرٍ meaning آخِرَ عَهْدٍ. (K, * TA.) خطار: see what next follows.خَطِيرٌ The falling of a camel's tail between the parts above his thighs, when he moves it about; [see 1, first sentence;] as also ↓خطار. (TA: in which the latter is written without any syll. signs.) A2:  A camel's nose-rein; (S, K;) a nose-rein by which a she-camel is led: (Kr:) a rope: (Sh, K:) these, says Meyd, are one and the same thing. (TA.) It is related in a trad. of 'Alee that he said to [ a mistake for “ respecting ”] 'Ammár, جُرُّوا لَهُ الخَطِيرَ مَا انْجَرَّ لَكُمْ [Pull ye his noserein as long as it will be pulled by you]: or, as some relate the saying, مَا جَرَّهُ لَكُمْ [as long as he pulls it to you]: meaning follow him as long as there is ground for doing so: or, accord. to some, as Sh says, act patiently towards 'Ammar as long as he acts patiently towards you: Meyd mentions it as a proverb. (TA.) A3:  (tropical:)  Eminent; noble; of high rank: (Msb, K, TA:) characterized by rank or station: (S, A:) pl. خُطْرٌ (K) and خَطِيرُونَ. (A.) And (assumed tropical:)  Anything excellent. (TA.) You say أَمْرٌ خَطِيرٌ (assumed tropical:)  A thing, or an affair, of high account or estimation. (TA.) b2:  Also (assumed tropical:) Ignoble; of low rank; (Az, TA;) contemptible. (Az, Msb.) b3:  See also خَطَرٌ, in three places.خَطَّارٌ [is probably applied to a he-camel in a sense like that of the fem., here following].خَطَّارَةٌ, applied to a she-camel, That lashes with the tail to the right and left: (K:) or that moves about her tail, when going, in a brisk, or sprightly, manner: (A:) or that raises her tail, in going along, by reason of briskness, and exceeding sprightliness. (Har p. 557.) [See 1, first sentence.] b2:  [Hence,] (tropical:)  A spear that quivers, vibrates, or shakes: (S, A, K:) or that does so much: and in like manner, a man. (TA.) and خَطَّارٌ بِالرُّمْحِ (tropical:)  A man who thrusts much with the spear. (S, K, TA.) b3:  (assumed tropical:)  A man who raises his arm, or hand, (K, TA,) with a stone which he lifts for the purpose of trying his strength, (TA,) to cast, or throw, (K, TA,) and who shakes the stone in lifting it. (TA.) b4:  (assumed tropical:)  A sling. (K.) (assumed tropical:) The [engine of war called] مَنْجَنِيق; (K;) as also ↓ خَطَّارَةٌ: its casting being likened to the action termed خَطَرَانٌ [inf. n. of 1, q. v.], of the stallion-camel. (TA.) b5:  الخَطَّارُ (assumed tropical:)  The lion: (K:) because of his proud walk, and self-admiration: or because of his shaking himself in his walk. (TA.) b6:  مِسْكٌ خَطَّارٌ (tropical:)  Musk that diffuses much odour or fragrance. (A.) خَطَّارَةٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.خَاطِرٌ [part. n. of 1, q. v.:] (tropical:)  Walking with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of the body from side to side; (K;) as also ↓ خَطِرٌ, (K, TA,) or ↓ خَطْرٌ. (So in the CK and in a MS. copy of the K.) A2:  (tropical:)  An opinion, or an idea, or object of thought, bestirring itself in the mind; (A and Kull p. 179;) i. q.  هَاجِسُ, (M, K,) i. e. a thing coming at random into the mind: (S in art. هجس:) or a cogitation which bestirs itself, or occurs, (يَخْطُرُ,) in the mind, with a view to the end, issue, or result, of a thing: (Msb:) pl. خَوَاطِرُ: (A, K:) [and ↓ خَطْرَةٌ signifies the same; for] خَطَرَاتٌ [which is its pl.] is syn. with خَوَاطِرُ; (A;) [whence the phrase,] خَطَرَاتُ الشَّيَاطِينِ (assumed tropical:)  The vain suggestions of the devils. (S and TA in art. همز, &c.) [See also خَطَرٌ, last sentence] b2:  Hence it is applied to (assumed tropical:)  The mind itself. (Kull p. 179.) مَخْطَرٌ: see خَطْرَةٌ.بَادِيَةٌ مُخْطِرَةٌ (assumed tropical:)  [A perilous, or dangerous, desert;] as though it made the traveller a stake between safety and perdition. (Msb.) مُخَاطِرٌ [act. part. n. of 3, q. v.:] (assumed tropical:)  One who contends with another in shooting or casting [app. for a wager]. (JK, TA.)