مِنْقَارٌ

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مِنْقَارٌ The beak of a bird; that which is to a bird as the mouth to a man; because it pecks, or picks up, with it: or of a bird which is not one of prey; that of a bird of prey being called مِنْسَرٌ: (Fs, and S in art. نسر, and MF:) therefore the explanation in the K, which is, the مِنْسَر of a bird, is incorrect: [and the dual signifies the two mandibles of a bird; used in this sense in the TA, art. صغو:] pl. مَنَاقِيرُ.
2 Hence, The fore part of the خُفّ [app. meaning the foot of a camel, not a boot].
3 [A kind of pickaxe; or a pick, by which a mill-stone, or the like, is pecked, or wrought into shape, and roughened in its surface; ] an iron instrument like the فَأْس, slender, round, and having a خَلْف [or pointed head], with which one pecks, (يُنْقَرُبِهَا, A, K, TA,) and cuts stones, and hard earth; used [also] by a carpenter: and مِنْقَرٌ signifies [app. the same, or nearly the same,] i. q. مِعْوَلٌ: [the former is applied in the present day to a chisel:] pl. of the former, مَنَاقِيرُ; and of the latter, مَنَاقِرُ. Dhu-r-Rummeh says, كَأَرْحَآءِ رَقْدٍ زَلَّمَتْهَا المَنَاقِرُ [Like mill-stones of Rakd which the minkars have rounded]. See زَلَّمَ.

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