نَبَرَ
Root: نبر
Form: 1
Full Definition
نَبَرَI
, Present.T
ـِ Verbal.Noun نَبْرٌ, He, or it, raised, or elevated, a thing: or نَبْرٌ signifies specially the raising of the voice: or the rising of the voice; so with the Arabs; and one says نَبَرَ الرَّجُلُ, Verbal.Noun نَبْرَةٌ, meaning, the man spoke in a high tone: and نَبَرَ, Verbal.Noun نَبْرَةٌ, he uttered a sound: and [the Verbal.Noun] نَبْرَةٌ, signifies the crying out, or shouting, from fright, or fear: and نَبْرَةُ المُغَنِّى, the singer's raising his voice from a low to a high pitch.
2 نَبَرَ الحَرْفَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun نَبْرٌ, He pronounced the letter with hemz (هَمْز). قُرَيْشٌ لَا تَنْبِرُ [The tribe of Kureysh] do not pronounce with hemz. A man said to the Prophet, يَا نَبِىْءَ ٱللّٰهِ [O Prophet of God]; and he said لَا تَنْبِرْ يِٱسْمِى, i. e. Pronounce not thou my name with hemz: for the tribe of Kureysh did not pronounce with hemz. And when ElMahdee performed the pilgrimage, he preferred El-Kisáee to recite the prayers in El-Medeeneh, and the people of that city disapproved of his pronouncing with hemz, asking him wherefore he did so in reciting the Kur-án in the mosque of the Apostle of God.
2 نَبَرَ الحَرْفَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun نَبْرٌ, He pronounced the letter with hemz (هَمْز). قُرَيْشٌ لَا تَنْبِرُ [The tribe of Kureysh] do not pronounce with hemz. A man said to the Prophet, يَا نَبِىْءَ ٱللّٰهِ [O Prophet of God]; and he said لَا تَنْبِرْ يِٱسْمِى, i. e. Pronounce not thou my name with hemz: for the tribe of Kureysh did not pronounce with hemz. And when ElMahdee performed the pilgrimage, he preferred El-Kisáee to recite the prayers in El-Medeeneh, and the people of that city disapproved of his pronouncing with hemz, asking him wherefore he did so in reciting the Kur-án in the mosque of the Apostle of God.
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