نُغَرٌ
Root: نغر
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نُغَرٌ
Certain birds like sparrows, or a species of sparrows, with red beaks: n. un. with ة: or the young ones of sparrows: n. un. as above: or the young ones of the sparrows; which you always see in a lean state: or [a species] of young sparrows: or the bird called
بُلْبُل: it is said that the people of El-Medeeneh call the بُلْبُل by the names of نُغَرٌ and حُمَّرَةٌ; and it is said to resemble the sparrow; and the fem. is with ة: or a species of the
حُمَّر, (K, TA; in the CK, erroneously, حُمُر;) red in the beaks and in the lower parts of the
أَحْنَاك [or portions beneath the beaks]: or the males thereof: pl. نِغْرَانٌ, like as صِرْدَانٌ is pl. of صُرَدٌ. Its dim. is نُغَيْرٌ occurring in a trad.; يَا أَبَا
عُمَيْرْ مَا فَعَلَ النُّغَيْرْ [O Aboo-'Omeyr, what did the little nughar?]; said by Mohammad to a little child of Aboo-Talhah El-Ansáree, who had a bird, or birds, of this name, which died.
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