Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَنْقَرَ

Root: نقر

Form: 4

Full Definition

أَنْقَرَIV see 1, in three places, in the first half.

def.2 انقر عَنْهُ, Verbal.Noun إِنْفَارٌ, He refrained, forbore, abstained, or desisted, from it or him; he left or relinquished, it or him. Hence the saying, ضَرَبَهُ فَمَا أَنْقَرَ عَنْهُ حَتَّى قَتَلَهُ He beat him and left him not until be killed him. And hence the saying of I'Ab, مَاكَانَ ٱللّٰهُ لِيُنْقِرَ عَنْ قَاتِلِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِ, i. e., God will not leave the slayer of the believer until He destroy him


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