فَقَرَ
Root: فقر
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 And فَقْرٌ signifies The boring, or perforating, of beads for the purpose of stringing; [as also تَفْقِيرٌ; for one says] [as well as فَقَرْتُ], meaning I bored, or perforated, beads.
3 And The act of cleaving, slitting, or rending. [See also 8.]
4 And فَقَرَ أَنْفَ البَعِيرِ, [and فَقَرَ البَعِيرَ also, as is indicated in the TA,] Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun فَقْرٌ, He made an incision in the nose [or muzzle] of the camel, the beast being refractory, with an iron instrument, so as to reach to the bone, or nearly so, then put upon the place of the incision the [cord called] جَرِير, with a [string such as is termed] وَتَر wound upon it, to render him tractable, or to train him, thereby: sometimes the refractory camel has three incisions made in his muzzle; and when his owner desires to render him tractable, and to prevent him from being brisk above measure, he puts the جرير upon the incision that is next to his lip, and in consequence he governs him as he will; and if he be between the refractory and the tractable, he puts the جرير upon the intermediate incision, and in consequence he exceeds in his pace; and if he desire that he should stretch forth and go without inconvenience to his owner, he puts the جرير upon the uppermost incision. [The incision above mentioned is termed فُقْرَةٌ .
5 Hence, app., by a tropical usage, فَقَرَ signifies
def.2 [فَقَرَهُ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun فَقْرٌ, He, or it, broke the فَقَار of his back.
2 Hence the phrase,] فَقَرَتْهُ الفَافقِرَةُ, or الدَّاهِيَةُ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun فَقْرٌ, [lit.] The calamity broke the vertebræ of his back: [meaning] the calamity befell him.
def.3 فَقُرَ, with damm, [Present.T ـُ] He had a complaint of his vertebræ: and فَقِرَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun فَقَرٌ, He had a complaint of his vertebræ arising from fracture or disease.
2 فَقُرَ or فَقِرَ in the sense of اِفْتَقَرَ: see 8.
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