نَاظِرٌ
Root: نظر
Full Definition
2 النَّاظِرُ [The pupil, or apple, of the eye, the smallest black of the eye, in which is [seen] what is termed إِنْسَانُ العَيْنِ, [and] with which the man sees; the black spot in the eye; the clear black spot that is in the middle of the [main] black of the eye, with which the looker sees what he sees: or that part of the eye which resembles a mirror, in which, when one faces it, he sees his person: or a duct (عِرْق) in the nose, wherein is the water of sight: [app. a loose description of the optic nerve:] or the sight itself: or the eye: or the eye is called ; the pl. of which is نَوَاظِرُ.
3 شَدِيدُ النَّاظِرِ, or سَدِيدُ النَّاظِرِ, A man clear of suspicion, who looks with a full gaze: or clear of that with which he is upbraided.
4 النَّاظِرَانِ Two veins at the two edges of the nose, commencing from the inner angles of the eyes, towards the face.
5 Also, نَاظِرٌ
6 [The dim. is نُوَيْظِرٌ.] You say, عُيَيْنَتِى نُوَيْظِرَةٌ إِلَى ٱللّٰهِ ثُمَّ إِلَيْكُمْ
def.2 In the Kur, [lxxv. 23,] the words إِلَى رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌ have been explained as signifying Waiting for (مُنْتَظِرَةٌ) their Lord: but this is a mistake; for the Arabs do not say نَطَرْتُ إِلَى الشَّىْءِ in the sense of إِنْتَظَرْتُهُ, but they say نَظَرْتُ فُلَانًا in that sense.
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