مَوَتَانٌ
1.
(assumed tropical:) Inanimate things, or goods; dead stock; such as lands and houses [&c.]; (S;) opposite of حَيَوَانٌ [q. v.] (S, K.) It is made of this measure to agree in measure with its contr. حيوان: both these words deviate from the constant course of speech; being of a measure properly belonging to inf. ns. (TA.) [See also مَوَاتٌ.]
2.
إِشْتَرِ المَوَتَانَ وَلا تَشْتَرِ الحَيَوَانَ
Buy lands and houses [or the like], and buy not slaves and beasts of carriage [&c.]. (S.)
3.
رَجُلٌ
يَبِيعُ المَوَتَانَ
A man who sells utensils or furniture or the like, and anything but what has life. (L.)
4.
See also مَوْتٌ.