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نَجْرٌ

Root: نجر

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نَجْرٌ The shape, or form, of a man [or beast]; his appearance, or external state or condition: species; distinctive quality or property; syn. لَوْنٌ; as also and نُجَارٌ : nature; natural or native disposition or temper or other quality or property; of a man [&c.]; as also or نُجَارٌ : (A [in my copy of the A written erroneously نَجَارٌ:]) his place of growth; as also نجار: origin; syn. أَصْلٌ; as also and نُجَارٌ: grounds of pretension to respect; rank or quality, nobility, honourableness, or estimableness; syn. حَسَبٌ ; as also and نُجَارٌ : generosity of mind or spirit It is said in the prov., كُلٌّ نِجَارِ إِبِلٍ وَنَارُ إِبْلِ العَالَمِينَ نَارُهَا Every species of camels is their species: or every origin &c.: [and every mark of the camels of the various peoples of the world is their mark: ] the camels here mentioned by the poet were stolen from among a variety of camels, and comprised every species [with every mark]. The proverb is applied to him who confounds things; and means, he has in him every sort of disposition, and has no opinion in which he is settled. [See Freytag's Arab. Prov., ii. 317. See also نَارٌ.]
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