Definition of "athar" []

• Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers. (noun)

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• ""The word 'athar' - 'antiquities' - became a horrible word because it meant preserving our houses but not our traditions," said Omar Hallaj, the chief executive of the Syria Trust for"
• "Death of Muhammad Amin al-Muhibbi (b. 1651), a Damascene scholar who compiled a biographical dictionary of 17th-century personages in the Middle East (Khulasat al-athar) and a massive anthology of contemporary poetry (Nafhat al-rayhana)."
• "His ‘Aja’ ib al-athar is a major source for the political and social history of Egypt from the 17th century to the early 19th century."