نَخِرٌ
Root: نخر
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نَخِرٌ
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نَاخِرٌ A bone, and wood, old and wasted and crumbling; old and wasted and soft, crumbling when touched: fem. of each with ة: or the former signifies a bone old and wasted: and the latter, a hollow bone, having a hole passing through it, whence comes, when the wind blows, a sound like that which is termed
نَخِيرٌ; [see نَخَرَ;] a bone into which the wind enters and whence it then issues with the sound so termed; a bone, and wood, in which the wind makes the sound so termed. Of the two readings, in the Kur, [lxxix. 11,] عِظَامًا نَاخِرَةً and عِظَامًا نَخِرَةً, Fr prefers the former, as agreeable in form with the words ending the other verses; and he says that نَاخِرَةٌ and نَخِرَةٌ are the same in meaning, like طَامِعٌ and طَمِعٌ.
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