ناَقِرٌ

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ناَقِرٌ act. part. n. of نَقَرَ.
2 An arrow that hits, or has hit, the butt, or the eye of the target: if it do not hit the butt it is not so called: [but see a phrase following:] pl. نَوَاقِرُ.
3 [Hence,] أَخْطَأَتْ نَوَاقِرُهُ [lit., His arrows that were wont to hit the butt missed]; meaning, he did not continue in the right course. [And hence,] نَاقِرَةٌ A calamity; pl. نَوَاقِرُ. One says, رَمَاهُ الدَّهْرُ بِنَاقِرَةٍ, and بِنَوَاقِرَ, Fortune smote him with a calamity, and with calamities.
4 Also, نَاقِرَةٌ A right argument, allegation, evidence, or the like; syn. حُجَّةٌ مُصِيبَةٌ: in the K, a و is incorrectly inserted between these two words: but the pl., نَوَاقِرُ, is afterwards correctly rendered in the K. One says, أَتَتْنِى عَنْهُ نَوَاقِرُ There came to me, from him, speech which displeased me, or grieved me: or right arguments, or the like, like arrows hitting the mark. In the L, رَمَاهُ بِنَوَاقِرَ He cast at him words that hit the mark.

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