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نَجَرَ

Root: نجر

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نَجَرَ , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun نَجْرٌ, He worked wood as a carpenter; cut or hewed it; formed or fashioned it by cutting; cut it out; hewed it out; shaped it out; syn. نَحَتَ; or, as some say, قَطَعَ.

def.2 نَجَرَتْ, [Present.T as above, accord. to the rule of the K,] Verbal.Noun نَجْرٌ, She made, or prepared, the kind of food called نَجِيرَة, for her children, and her pastors.
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