أَتْوٌ

a verbal noun of 1, q. v.

-A2- A way, course, mode, or manner. (M, K.) You say, of speech, or language, (M,) and of a speaker, or reciter of a خُطْبَة, (IAar, M,) مَا زَالَ عَلَى أَتْو وَاحد It, and he, ceased not to follow one [uniform] way, &c. (M.)

-A3- An impulsion; a propulsion; particularly an act of shooting an arrow from a bow: so in a tradition, where it is said, كُنَّا نَرْمِى الأَتْوَيْنِ We used to shoot one shooting and two shootings; meaning, of arrows from bows, after the prayer of sunset. (TA.)

-A4- Death: or [so in the T, but in the K “and,”] a trial; or an affliction. (T, K.) You say, أَتَى عَلَى فُلَانٍ أَتْوٌ Death came upon such a one: or a trial; or an affliction. (ISh, T.) And إِنْ أَتَى عَلَّى أَتْوٌ فَغُلامِى حُرٌّ If I die, [or if death befall me,] my slave shall be free. (T.)

A vehement sickness or disease: (T, K:) or the fracture of an arm, or of a leg. (T.)

-A5- A gift. (S, K.)

Butter; (S;) as also ↓ أَتَاءٌ, (A,) or ↓ إِتَاءٌ. (TA: [in which it is said to be like كِتَابٌ; but this I think a mistake: see أَتَاءٌ below.]) You say, when a skin of milk is agitated, and its butter comes, قَدْ جَاءَ أَتْوُهُ [Its butter has come]. (S, TA.) And you say, ↓ لَبَنٌ ذُو اتاءٍ Milk having butter. (A, TA.)

-A6- A great body or corporeal form or person (شَخْصٌ عَظِيمٌ). (AZ, Sgh, K.)