عُطَاسٌ

العُطَاسُ (tropical:) The dawn, or daybreak; (Lth, Az, A, O, K;) as also العَاطِسُ. (K.) You say, جَاءَ فُلَانٌ قَبْلَ طُلُوعِ العُطَاسِ and هُبُوبِ العُطَاسِ (tropical:) [Such a one came before the rising of the dawn]. (A.) And a poet says,

وَقَدْ أَغْتَدِى قَبْلَ العُطَاسِ بِسَابِحِ

(assumed tropical:) [And sometimes I go early in the morning, before dawn, with a horse that runs stretching out his fore legs gracefully as if swimming]: but As relates that the meaning is said to be, before I hear the sneeze of a sneezer and augur evil from it; and that he had not heard any authority worthy of reliance for the meaning assigned by Lth. (TA.)