نَاشِرٌ
Root: نشر
Full Definition
2 كَانَ يُكَبِّرُ نَاشِرَ الأَصَابِعِ He used to say أَللّٰهُ أَكْبَرْ spreading, or unfolding, his fingers: said to mean not making his hand a clenched fist.
3 جَآءَ نَاشِرًا أُذُنَيْهِ [He came spreading, or, as we say, pricking up, his ears: meaning,]
4 وَٱلنَّاشِرَاتِ نَشْرًا, in the Kur., [lxxvii. 3,] signifies And the angels, or the winds, that do scatter the rain: or the winds that do bring rain. And رِيحٌ نَشُورٌ , of which the pl. is رِيَاحٌ نُشُرٌ, signifies Wind that spreads [the clouds], or scatters [the rain]; نَشُورٌ being syn. with نَاشِرٌ: or it signifies in a scattered state. [In the Kur, ubi supra,] يُرْسِلُ الرِّيَاحَ نُشُرًا بَيْنَ يَدَىْ رَحْمَتِهِ, and نُشْرًا, and , and , [Sendeth the winds, &c.,] all these being various readings, نُشُرًا is pl. of نَشُورٌ, in the sense of نَاشِرٌ; or the meaning is, in a state of dispersion before the rain; and نُشْرًا is a contraction; and the third reading means
def.2 أَرْضٌ نَاشِرَةٌ
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