أَثَاثٌ

Goods; or utensils and furniture of a house or tent; household-goods; synonym مَتَاعٌ; (T, M;) or مَتَاعُ بَيْت; (S, Msb, K;) of whatever kind; consisting of clothes, and stuffing for mattresses or the like, or outer garments [&c.]: (M, TA:) or (so according to the M and K, but in the T “also,”) all property, (AZ, T, S, M, K,) [consisting of] camels, and sheep or goats, and slaves, and utensils and furniture or householdgoods: (AZ, T, S:) or abundant property: or abundance of property: (M, TA:) [in which last sense it is a verbal noun used as simple subst.:] or what is made, or taken, for use, and i. q. مَتَاعٌ; not what is for merchandise: or what is new, of the utensils and furniture of a house or tent; not what is old and worn out: (TA:) [it is a coll. gen. n., and] the n. un. is with اثر: (AZ, T, S, M, Msb, K:) or it has no n. un.: (Fr, T, S, Msb, K:) if you form a plural from اثاث, you say, ثَلَاثَةُ اثَّةٍ, [originally أَأْثِثَة, like أَطْعِمَة, plural of طَعَام,] and أُثُثٌ كَثِيرَةٌ. (Fr, T.)