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نَاثِرٌ

Root: نثر

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نَاثِرٌ and مِنْثَارٌ A palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ) that shakes off its unripe dates: or of which the unripe dates become scattered.
2 And the former, A sheep or goat that coughs, so that something becomes scattered from its nose; as also نَافِرٌ: or a sheep or goat that ejects from its nose what resembles worms; as also نَثُورٌ : or that sneezes, and ejects from its nose what annoys or hurts it, resembling worms.
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