Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

نَزُورٌ

Root: نزر

Full Definition

نَزُورٌ Any thing little, or small, in quantity or number. See also نَزْرٌ.
2 A woman having few children; and in like manner applied to a bird; as also نَزِرَةٌ , with kesr to the ز, applied to a woman: pl. of the former, نُزُرٌ: or the former epithet signifies having little milk; applied in this sense to a she-camel. A she-camel having wide orifices to her teats. (L, voce فتوح.)
3 Of little speech; that speaks not until importuned, or pressed.
4 A she-camel whose young one has died, and that affects the young one of another, but whose milk comes not save scantily.
5 A she-camel that scarcely ever conceives except against her will: a mare slow to conceive.


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