انتحر
Root: نحر
Form: 8
Full Definition
انتحرVIII
He stabbed himself in the
نَحْر, or slew himself. It is said in a proverb, سُرِقَ السَّارِقُ فَٱنْتَحَرَ [The robber was robbed, and in consequence slew himself]: or سَرَقَ السَّارِقُ فَٱنْتَحَرَ [app. meaning, The robber robbed, and so occasioned his own slaughter: for it is said that the verb is here used tropically]. [The former reading, which I prefer, is given in Freytag's Arab. Prov, q. v., vol. i. p. 618.]
2 It burst with much water.
def.2 See also 6.
2
def.2 See also 6.