سَتِيرٌ

(S, M, K) and ↓ مَسْتُورٌ, (S, A, K,) applied to a man, (S, A, &c.,) and سَتِيرَةٌ (S, M, A, K) and سَتِيرٌ and ↓ سَتِرَةٌ, (M,) applied to a girl (S) or female, (M, &c.,) [properly Veiled, concealed, or covered.

And hence,] (tropical:) Modest; bashful; (M;) chaste: (S, K:) plural of سَتِيرٌ, as masculine, سُتَرَاءُ; (M;) and of ↓ مَسْتُورٌ, [مَسْتُورُونَ and] مَسَاتِيرُ; (A;) and, apparently of سَتِيرٌ [as feminine] and سَتِيرَةٌ also, سَتَايءِرُ; and the plural of ↓ سَتِرَةٌ is سَتِرَاتٌ only, according to a rule laid down by Sb. (M.)

شَجَرٌ سَتِيرٌ (tropical:) Trees having many boughs or branches. (A.)

-A2- سَتِيرٌ applied to God is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Veiling, or protecting; a veiler, or protector. (TA.)