نَقِيرٌ

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نَقِيرٌ : see نَقْرٌ, in three places.

def.2 What is bored, or perforated; and what is hollowed out, or excavated; (مَا نُقِبَ, TA, and مَا نُقِرَ, K, TA;) of stone, and of wood, and the like.
2 A piece of wood, or a block of wood, (أَصْلُ خَشَبَةٍ, S, K,) or a stump, or the lower part, (أَصْل,) of a palm-tree, which is hollowed out, and in which the beverage called نَبِيذ is made; the نبيذ whereof becomes strong: or a stump, or the lower part, (اصل,) of a palm-tree, which it was a custom of the people of El-Yemámeh to hollow out, then they crushed in it ripe dates and unripe dates, which [with water poured upon them] they left until fermentation had taken place therein and subsided: or a stump, or the lower part, (اصل,) of a palm-tree, whereof the middle was hollowed out, then dates were put in them, with water, which became intoxicating نبيذ: the word is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ. It is said in a trad., that Mohammad forbade النَّقِير, meaning, the نبيذ thereof.
3 A trunk of a palm-tree, hollowed out, and having the like of steps made in it, by which one ascends to غُرف [or upper chambers]. (K. [See also عَجَلَةٌ.])
4 See also نُقْرَةٌ, throughout.

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