[1]
نَقَرَ , (S, A, Msb, K,) aor.
نَقُرَ , inf. n.
نَقْرٌ, (S,
Msb,)
He (a bird)
pecked, or
picked up, (S, A,
Msb, K,) a grain, (S,) or grains, (A, Msb,)
from
this place and that, (A, K,)
بِمِنْقَارِهِ with his beak.
(A.) [Accord. to the TA, the addition “ from
this place and that, ” which is found in the K and
A, and in one place in the S, seems to be unnecessary. And ↓
انتقر signifies the same: see 8,
in art.
قب.] ―
2-b2- [Hence, because of the sure aim
with which a bird pecks a thing,] the same verb,
having the same [aor. and] inf. n. signifies, (tropical:)
It
(an arrow)
hit the butt. (Msb.) And
He (an
archer)
hit the butt,
without making his arrow to
pass through, partly or
wholly. (TA.) ―
2-b3- [Hence
also,] (assumed tropical:)
He took [or
picked] a thing, as, for
instance, food,
with the finger. (TA.) ―
2-b4- Also,
(M, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M, TA,)
He
struck a thing (IKtt, K, * TA,) with a thing:
(IKtt, TA:) [generally,
he struck, knocked, or
pecked, a thing
with a pointed instrument, like as
a bird strikes a thing with its beak:]
he struck
[or
pecked] a mill-stone, or a stone, &c., with a
مِنْقَار [which is a
pick, or a
kind of pickaxe; i. e.,
he wrought it into shape, and roughened it in its
surface, with a pick]. (M, TA.) ―
2-b5- [Hence,]
(tropical:)
He wrote [or
engraved writing]
فِى حَجَرٍ upon
a stone. (A, K.) Whence the saying,
التَّعْلِيمُ
فِى الصِّغَرِ كَالنَّقْرِ عَلَى الحَجَرِ [or, as in a verse of
Niftaweyh,
فِى الحَجَرِ, i. e.,
Teaching in infancy
is like engraving writing upon stone]. (TA.) ―
2-b6-
He struck [or
fillipped] a man's head, and in like
manner a lute, and a tambourine, with his finger.
(TA.) You say also
أَنْقَرَ ↓
أُذُنَهُ, meaning,
He
struck [or
fillipped]
his ear with his finger. (AA,
in TA, art.
نطب.) ―
2-b7- [Hence,]
نَقَرَ, [aor.
نَقُرَ , inf.
n.
نَقْرٌ, as appears from what follows;] and ↓
أَنْقَرَ;
(tropical:) [
He made a snapping with his thumb and middle
finger;]
he struck his thumb against the end of
the middle finger and made a sound with them.
(A.) [And in like manner the former verb used
transitively; as in the following instance:]
وَضَعَ
طَرَفَ إِبْهَامِهِ عَلَى بَاطِنِ سَبَّابَتِهِ ثُمَّ نَقَرَهَا [(tropical:)
He put
the end of his thumb against the inner side of his
first finger, then made a snapping with it]. (TA.)
See also
نَقْرٌ, below. ―
2-b8- [Hence also,]
نَقَرَ بِالدَّابَّةِ,
(T, A, TS,) or
بِالفَرَسِ, (S,) aor.
نَقُرَ , (TA,) inf. n.
نَقْرٌ; (T, S, TS;) and ↓
أَنْقَرَ, (A, TS,) inf. n.
إِنْقَارٌ;
(TS;) (tropical:)
He made a [
smacking or]
slight sound, to
put in motion the [
beast or]
horse, by making his
tongue adhere to his palate and then opening [or
suddenly drawing it away]: (S:) or
he struck
with his tongue the place of utterance of the letter
ن and made a [
smacking]
sound [
by suddenly
withdrawing his tongue]: (A:)
نَقْرٌ signifies the
making the end of the tongue to adhere to the
palate, then making a sound [
by suddenly withdrawing it]: (M, K:) or one's
putting his tongue
above his central incisors, at the part next the
palate, then making a smacking sound [so I
render
ثُمَّ يَنْقُر]: (TA:) [the sounds thus described,
which are nearly the same, are commonly made
by the Arabs in the present day, in urging beasts
of carriage:] or
an agitation of the tongue (K,
TA)
in the mouth, upwards and downwards:
(TA:) or
a sound, (so in some copies of the K
and in the TA,) or
slight sound, (so in the TS [as
mentioned in the TA] and in some copies of the
K)
by which a horse is put in motion: (TS, K:)
or
نَقَرَ بِلِسَانِهِ, accord. to IKtt, signifies
he struck
his palate with his tongue to quiet the horse: but
this is at variance with what is said by Az, J, and
ISd, and requires consideration. (TA.) A poet,
(S,) Fedekee El-Minkaree, (K,) i. e., 'Obeyd
Ibn-Máweeyeh, of the tribe of Teiyi, (TA,) uses
النَّقُرْ for
النَّقْرْ, meaning
النَّقْرُ بِٱلْخَيْلِ [
The smacking
with the tongue to urge the horses]: pausing after
the word, at the end of a hemistich, he transfers
the vowel of the
ر to the
ق, (S, K,) agreeably
with the dial. of certain of the Arabs, (TA,) that
the hearer may know it to be the vowel of the
[final] letter when there is no pause; (S;) like
as you say,
هٰذَا بَكْرُ and
مَرَرْتُ بِبَكِرْ: but this is
not done when the word is in the accus. case
(S, K:) and if you choose, you may make the
final letter quiescent in pausing, though it is preceded by a quiescent letter. (S.) ―
2-b9- Hence also,
فَإِذَا نُقِرَ فِى النَّاقُورِ [Kur, lxxiv. 8,] (tropical:)
For when the
horn shall be blown: (S, * A, * Bd, K:) from
نَقْرٌ
signifying (tropical:) the
making a sound: originally,
striking, which is the cause of sound. (Bd.)
See also
نَاقُورٌ, below. ―
2-b10- Also,
نَقَرَ He bored,
perforated, or
made a hole through or
in or
into,
a thing: (TA:) or
he did so with a مِنْقَار: (S:)
and, inf. n.
نَقْرٌ,
he hollowed out, or
excavated, a
piece of wood. (Mgh, Msb.)
نُقِرٌ and ↓
اِنْتَقَرَ,
(so in some copies of the K,) or ↓
أُنْتُقِرَ, (so in
other copies of the K and in the TA,) both in the
pass. form, (TA,) said of stone and of wood and
the like, signify alike, (K,)
It was bored, or
perforated, or
it had a hole made through or
in or
into it: (TA:) [and
it was hollowed out.] You
say,
نَقَرَ البَيْضَةَ عَنِ الفَرْخِ, (K,) aor.
نَقُرَ , inf. n.
نَقْرٌ,
(TA.)
He made a hole in the egg [
so as to disclose
the young bird]. (K.) And
نَقَرَت الخَيْلُ,
(A,) and
انتقرت ↓
بحوافرها نُقَرًا, (Lth, K,)
The
horses made hollows in the ground with their hoofs.
(Lth, A, K.) And in like manner, ↓
انتقرت
السُّيُولُ نُقَرًا The torrents left hollows in the ground,
in which water was retained. (TA.) ―
2-b11- Hence,
نَقَرَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ; (Msb;) and
نقّر ↓
عَنْهُ, (S, K,)
inf. n.
تَنْقِيرٌ; (S;) and ↓
نقّرهُ; and ↓
تنقّرهُ: and
↓
انتقرهُ; (K;) (tropical:)
He searched or
inquired into the
thing; investigated, scrutinized, or
examined, it;
(S, Msb, K, TA;)
and endeavoured to know it:
(TA;) and so
نَقَرَ عَنِ لخَبَرِ (tropical:)
he investigated the
news, and endeavoured to know it. (A.) [And
hence,]
نقّر ↓
السَّهْمَ بَيْنَ إِصْبَعَيْهِ. (K, in art.
حن,)
or
عَلَى الإِبْهَامِ, inf. n.
تَنْقِيرٌ, (K, in art.
دوم,) [
He
tried the sonorific quality of the arrow by turning
it round between his fingers, or
upon his thumb:
see
حَنَّانٌ, and
دَرَّ السَّهْمُ, and see also 4, in art.
دوم:
or]
نقّر السَّهْمَ signifies
he made the arrow to produce a sharp sound [by turning it round between
his fingers, or] upon his thumb. (TK, in art.
دوم.)