Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

نُشْرَةٌ

Root: نشر

Full Definition

نُشْرَةٌ A charm, or an a mulet, (رُقْيَةُ, S, L, K,) by which a sick person, and one possessed, or mad, is cured; by which the malady is [as it were] dispersed from him. Mohammad, being asked respecting that which is thus termed, answered, that it is of the work of the devil: and El-Hasan asserted it to be a kind of enchantment.


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