أَبْهَرُ

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أَبْهَرُ [The aorta; so in the present day;] a certain vein [or artery], in the back, lying within, or at the inner side of, the back-bone and the heart, the severing of which causes death: it is name given to each of two veins [or arteries, or the two portions of the aorta which are called the aorta ascendens and aorta descendens,] which issue from the heart, and from which then branch off all the other arteries: and, or as some say, the وَرِيد [i. e. either the carotid artery or the external jugular vein] of the neck: and, or as some say, [the vein in the arm called] the أَكْحَل: or, accord. to the more full description of IAth, a certain vein [or artery] arising from the head, and extending to the foot, and having arteries which communicate with most of the extremities and the body: what is in the head is called the نَامَّة; and hence the saying, أَسْكَتَ ٱللّٰهُ نَامَّتَهُ, meaning “God killed him,” or “may God kill him!” and it extends to the throat, and is there called the وَرِيد; and to the chest, and is there called [especially] the أَبْهَر [meaning the aorta ascendens]; and to the back, and is there called the وَتِين [meaning the aorta descendens]; and the heart is suspended to it; and it extends to the thigh, and is there called the نَسَا; and to the shank, and is there called the صَافِن: the ء in it is augmentative. You say, قَطَعَ أَبْهَرَهُ [It severed his aorta]; meaning it destroyed him.
2 Also The back: or the place of the vein [or artery] so called. (As, in art. خدع of the S.) One says, فُلَانٌ شَدِيدٌ الأَبْهَرِ Such a one is strong in the back: or strong in the place of the vein [or artery] called the ابهر.
3 And The back of the curved part of the extremity of a bow: or the part between the طائِف and the كُلْيَة: in the bow is its كَبِد, which is the part between the two extremities of its string or the like; then, next to this, the كُلْيَة; then, next to this, the أَبْهَر; then, the طَائِف; then, the سِئَة, which is the curved part of the extremity.
4 And A tent-pole.
5 And The shorter side of a feather: [or] so أَبَاهِرُ [which is the pl.]: [or] the latter signifies the feathers of the wing of a bird next after those called الخَوَافِى, [and] next [before] those called الكُلَى: the first of them are those called القَوَادِمُ, four in number, in the fore part of the wing; the next, المَنَاكِبُ, also four; the next, الخَوَافِى, also four; the next, الأَبَاهِرُ, also four; and the next, الكُلَى [which are also four].

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