فَاقِرَةٌ

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فَاقِرَةٌ [An act that breaks, or will break, the vertebræ of the back: and hence,] a calamity, or misfortune; as also فَيْقَرٌ : or, accord. to Lth and others, such as breaks the vertebræ of the back: pl. فَوَاقِرُ. عَمِلَ بِهِ الفَاقِرَةَ is a prov., meaning He did to him an act breaking, or that would break, his vertebræ; or a calamity, or misfortune, as in the Kur lxxv. 25: [or, accord. to J, it app. means he did to him that which would render him tractable; for he says,] it is from the phrase فَقَرْتُ أَنْفَ البَعِيرِ.
2 And [hence] الفَاقِرَةُ signifies The resurrection.

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